If someone is eating, Peanut Maximus thinks he should be eating too. He loves food.

You know your big sister loves you when she gives you whipped cream from the can straight into your mouth.

The Banana is seventeen! We had an exchange student from Germany staying with us for a few weeks at the beginning of the school year, and she joined in the celebration festivities. Breakfast in the bathtub is already a bit unusual, but it is extra crazy at 5:00 a.m, which…

Peanut Maximus has been loving going outside in the yard. He loves trucking through the grass and climbing on anything he can climb on. We were out in the yard the other day when The Banana drove home, so she took a few minutes to join in and gave me…

Here are a few things I’ve been loving lately:

OK, so I may have grieved the fact that it was the first day of school and only two kids were home and going to school. It was a little rough. The Banana knew that it was going to be rough for me, and she even gave me a gift…

Labor Day weekend was the hottest I can ever remember, and definitely the hottest string of five days we’ve had all summer. It was so weird for it to be so very hot so late in the season. It was also dry and crunchy, and just a struggle in general.…

Peanut Maximus, Mr. TOF and I headed down to a beach off the Lakewalk as the sun was getting low. I kept Peanut Maximus in the backpack the whole time we were at the beach because I was tired and just didn’t feel like chasing him around, so there aren’t…

Our plum tree on the boulevard was full of fruit that perfectly ripened last weekend. There has been a lot of plum munching, and Peanut Maximus really enjoys plum sauce in his morning cereal. We were so surprised a few years ago when our “fruitless” plum tree was not fruitless,…