When I’m practicing during the day, he puts his picture books on the music rack and “plays” them along side me. He stands on a chair next to the bench or on the student footstool. He takes the used student sticky notes out of the recycling basket and sticks them…

He’s learning new words every day. My current favorites are “toast” and “noodles,” which comes out like “doodles.” He’s working on learning the names of people in our family. (The Banana was the first official name he said, which she was very excited about!) I love hearing his adorable little…

The past few autumn seasons I have planted a bag of crocus bulbs on the south facing hill in our yard from the driveway to the Little Free Library on the corner, and this spring those crocus blooms, along with some others in the backyard that have been established for…

It’s afternoon play time, and it usually involves something like this and a lot of balls being tossed about.

The pink sandals and the green toenails just work, don’t they?

I’m a slow processor of dialogue with other people because my introverted head is always spinning. Often my kids will ask me a question and I will respond to that question after a significant time delay that I haven’t even realized has taken place, which particularly frustrates my extroverted progeny…

It all started the night before when The Banana’s good friend who lives in the neighborhood came over during the spring snowstorm to bake an almond cake. They decided it would be more delicious to eat it with raspberry sauce, and I showed them the recipe and gave some brief…

March was a long, rather terrible slog in many ways. I am happy April has arrived with more hours of daylight, melting snow, and a calendar that is temporarily not quite so filled. Plus some things that I was dreading came to fruitition in March, which means I no longer…