Birthdays that fall on school days.  Sigh.   Every birthday should be on a weekend, I think.  Nevertheless, celebrate we do!  We were up long, long before the sun.  I ran to the grocery store as soon as it opened up for the day and acquired the requested donuts.  As…

Here is YaYa’s latest painting.  She was frustrated with several aspects of it, but I absolutely love, love, LOVE it.

I had something important to talk to Mr. Sneaky Pants about. Me:  Come on in here for a minute.  I have something I want to talk to you about. Mr. SP:  Oh no!  No way!  You have got to be kidding. Me:  What? Mr. SP:  The three worst things you…

At the end of last week it turned cold, but the Saturday before that was warm and beautiful. We headed to the forest to burn off some energy.  This “stickophone” was developed especially for interforest communications.  

I love Mr. TOF’s face on these last three images.  Everyone else was jumping.  He did NOT want to be left out.  He was so scared he wouldn’t make it over the puddle and that he’d get his shoes wet.  He didn’t want to be “the baby” and miss out.…

Our Grateful Tree is up in the dining room.  I found a branch in my neighbor’s forest a few weeks ago and she let me drag it home to plunk in a pot, becoming our November tree in the dining room. Actually, my friend was about to use the branch…

For a bit more than a week Dr. Peds was in Haiti, on the outskirts of Port Au Prince working in a medical clinic.  He came back home late in the evening on Saturday.  The kidlets were excited to see him, of course, and really loved seeing the pictures and…

Mr. Trouble on Feet is always finding something interesting to do. Over the past few weeks he’s taken to building wonderful block structures.  Kids playing with wooden blocks makes my heart sing!  I love coming into the family room on a break from teaching to see what he’s added to his…

A few weeks ago I was driving the car with all of the kids to pick up an additional kid at a friend’s house and deliver all the kids to church for youth group and AWANA.  (While the kids are at church the grown ups have Bible study).  It’s always…