This is my slightly-more-than-one-year-old vacuum cleaner that is slightly past its warranty coverage going out the door to the vacuum repair shop. It broke two weeks ago. It’s hard to have three kids five and under and no vacuum cleaner, no matter how much of a delinquent domestic you are.…

Ms. Crazy Preschooler had absolutely no summer shoes that fit, so on Sunday she and I did a little shopping: one pair of play sandals for swinging on swingsets, and walking around the neighborhood, one pair of sandals that will stay neat and clean for church, and a cheap pair…

Ms. Crazy Preschooler looked at me around noon today while we were munching on our lunch outside on the patio, and stated: “Grandma Robbie SAYS she can’t keep her house very clean, but she sure does a better job than you, Mom.”

The focus on this picture is not perfect, but I just love her facial expression.

Before I ever got serious about picture taking, I had a fascination for windows and natual light. My window growing up was a tiny little hole at the top of one wall, and its gloomy light drove me nuts. My dad even put up a shelf right under the window…

The sea of boxes is slowly diminishing! Most of the house is starting to get organized, although progress still needs to be made, particularly in the basement. There is a path in the basement to the washing machine, but I still have some heavy duty work to do down there,…

Oh the power of Minivan Mom! This is my car prior to leaving North Dakota for Minnesota with a carload of mostly my husband’s toys from childhood, and a few of his Physical chemistry notes from college, which were, by the way, very heavy to carry into the new house,…

During my extremely rapid trip to North Dakota and back to Wisconsin over the past two and a half days, I was blessed to visit, although briefly, both of my grandmothers. I sorted and hauled boxes out of Grandma Jan’s basement where I had been storing a load of stuff…

While I’m moving this week all persons under four feet of height are residing at Grandma and Grandpa’s in North Dakota. Everyone is thrilled about this, I think. I’m guessing there will be a lot of recreational driving of heavy machinery on the farm this week.

Look close and you will see them on her nose. I remember having itty bitty nose freckles between the ages of five and nine too.