• Matching

    When The Banana found Peanut Maximus sized pajamas at the thrift store that matched her own pajama pants, we had to get them! She thought it would be fun to pack matching pajamas for our road trip to see Grandma. Then Aumnee gave The Banana and Peanut Maximus big and…

  • 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,…

  • Baseball Scenes

    It has been a summer full of baseball for Mr. TOF, playing on multiple teams and umping for the local Little League. In fact, there has been baseball of some sort or another happening almost every day for months and months. There was also a lot of traveling involved in…

  • Camp Aunt Rachel: Session Two

    We traded Cousin Katherine for Cousin Nathaniel as our camper for Camp Aunt Rachel. It was another week filled with obligations to work around, but we managed to squeeze some fun activities in, like trips to the beach to hunt for beach glass, a visit to the candy store up…