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We spent Sunday at the Apple Festival in Bayfield.  I pretty much love everything about Bayfield, and we always enjoy the apple festival, although it is a bit crowded with tons of people.  The kidlets and Dr. Peds tried many different kinds of carmel apples and other apple treats.  I…

The look on the right image is exactly the look he gives me when he’s saying, “Mom!”  Meaning “Mom, get it together and do what I’m asking even though you can’t quite understand what it is I want or you don’t think it’s a good idea.”  In this case, it…

Now that I’ve finally calmed down a bit regarding the issue of loosing my toddler a week ago Wednesday and people calling the police (which incidentally resulted in a surprise visit from Child Protection Services earlier this week to investigate our family and which placed me in a very bad…

I’m so sad that the upcoming stormy weather will be causing all these amazing leaves to flutter down to the ground and get crunchy, but I have been enjoying all the amazing colors as much as I possibly can.  I love autumn.

I had a bad week last week, but I am convinced that this week is going to be better! I’ve been out and about enjoying the amazing fall colors and trees and leaves as much as possible, and will have some images and stories to share about that soon.  It…

It doesn’t happen that often to me, but in the last couple of weeks I’ve managed to bump into several people who really dislike children.  Or maybe it’s not that they necessarily dislike children, it’s more that they are made extremely uncomfortable by the presence of children.  For the record,…

They came home from school and we headed to Hartley Park to climb some trees.  Sadly, we hardly managed to get out to our favorite set of climbing trees all summer long, so we were ready for some heavy duty climbing.  Mr. Trouble on Feet didn’t climb much, but he…

YaYa has an ability to get her brother and sister to accomplish daring things, like submerse themselves from head to toe in freezing cold water, or in this case, jump off a rock ledge into deep water and swim across to a sand bar.  (They were all wearing life jackets…

First of all, I searched everywhere, scoured the whole house in fact, looking for an in focus picture of myself at age 15 or 16, and this is all I could come up with!  I am certain my mother must have some in focus pictures of me as a teenager,…