• Bubbles at Grandma Robbie’s House

    It was windy, which caused bubble making to be easy! Peanut Maximus had to try out every single differently colored bubble container. Even though it comes with some sacrifice and the need to have a lot of patience, sometimes I think the big kids in the family have more fun…

  • Platypus Rides a Bike

    You never know what you might run into on the prairie. The drivers speeding past Grandma’s farm, might have been a little shocked about a platypus on a balance bike. Or maybe not shocked after all?

  • Serendipitous Stop

    The Banana, Peanut Maximus and I took a quick road trip to North Dakota to visit Grandma Robbie on her farm, and along the way a little detour on the highway put us a couple of blocks south of the road we normally drive on, and we happened to spot…

  • 2025 Sunday Night at the Beach: Edition 9

    Mr. TOF and Dr. Peds were driving back from a baseball trip, the Devious Snail was working, and The Banana was dead-to-the-world-asleep-in-her-bed after a highly successful rowing regatta in Kenora, Ontario, so it was just Peanut Maximus who came to the beach. “Just me and you, mom,” he said. We…

  • Garden Worker

    We are so fortunate to live in the middle of two houses with amazing gardeners on each side of us. It’s like living in a park! Unfortunately they both have to look out their windows at our chaos! In the past few years both neighbors have been featured on different…

  • Cabin Scenes

    Every year Dr. Peds and his family gather together at a cabin for a weekend together. The cabin they have been going to for the last couple of years happens to be equidistant from our house to the city that Mr. TOF’s baseball team was having their regional play-offs at,…