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All days are not sunshine and roses around here, and some days I’m nauseous with worry about how these kidlets are going to turn out in the end.  But some days around here are awesome, and every once in awhile these kidlets do something that make my heart sing and…

YaYa made this skirt!  What I mean is this:  she took a hunk of fabric off of her fabric shelf.  She thought about what she wanted to do with it.  She decided to make a skirt.  She looked though a bunch of books about sewing.  She combined instructions from two…

So many library books fly in and out of this house each week that I usually cannot fit them all in one tote bag anymore, and of course I have a dangerous book buying habit.  Here are just a few of the more notable things that I have read on…

Dr. Peds came home from visiting Auntie Amy Texas with presents for everyone.  I’m not sure if it was his idea or the brainchild of Auntie Amy Texas, but Mr. Sneaky Pants received a little box with hard ant candy inside.  It was a large, flat jolly rancher type candy,…

After going to YaYa’s band concert a few weeks ago, Mr. TOF realized that bands can sometimes sit down, too.  He deiced to try it.  He got the little red chair.  He put on his cowboy boots (because band players have to wear boots on their feet, he tells me).…

It was kind of a slow month around here.  There was the day to day frenzy, but the month was slow as far as surprising circumstances or momentous occasions.  That’s OK.  My learning list is a bit short this month, and that’s OK too. Don’t fix what isn’t broken.  Stick…

I’m super duper behind on blogging, but I could not leave this event out of the blog.  The picture is a grainy because stupidly, I left my big camera at home, so it was taken with the camera on my iPod.  In the middle of the month, my friend Kimberly…

In the middle of last week, on a delightfully warm day before the last snowstorm, we went for a short hike and spent a few minutes playing at the playground.  Mr. Trouble on Feet loved this slide, which was a little more slippery than usual because of the snow on…

I love a good snowstorm.  It’s a good thing, considering that between several different snow events, we’ve gotten another 30 inches of snow in the last week.  On Thursday it snowed hard all through the night, and a glorious 16 inches dumped down from the sky.  It was beautiful.  At…

I am so grateful that my husband enjoys playing games with them, because truthfully, I do not.  The drama involved is not my thing, and I end up frustrated, so I don’t do it.  I can read out loud to the crew of kidlets for hours and hours on end,…