In honor of my leaving for a terrific chamber choir rehearsal tonight, Dr. Peds decided to make spaghetti pie, something I had been holding him off of making for the entire almost 9 years of our marriage (it involves a lot of mixed up red sauce . . . not…

Yesterday morning we woke up to snow! Sarah and Mr. Sneaky Pants ran downstairs and pulled our their snow attire before they even sat down to eat breakfast. (The Banana preferred to finish her cheerios in the warm dining room). They zoomed out the door and had a great time…

My kids have always loved trains. Over the years I’ve acquired a lot of cheap wooden train track at garage sales and other thrifty venues. Since we’ve moved to Minnesota we have stored the train stuff in a basket under the activity table (a serious bargain in and of itself…

Saturday afternoon was beautiful. Dr. Peds drove to the other end of town to complete a few errands. I got my hair cut, and we decided that to celebrate the wonderful fall weather, we would drive down to the rocky beach. Of course, by the time we actually got everyone…

Our backyard neighbors are building an enormous garage that has pretty much eaten up their entire backyard. The Banana is mesmerized by the pounding of the hammers.

Mr. Sneaky Pants and I filled the activity table with swirling wooden train track this morning. He spent the morning driving trains. I spent the morning extracting The Banana from the table. She is currently very into disasembly.

In the last ten days, The Banana has developed her very own opinion about things. One of those matters, is the simple fact that she enjoys wearing a coat. At all times. In particular, she enjoys this fuzzy red fleece dress coat. She wears it with pajamas. She wears it…

Because it would be absolutely no fun to light pumpkins with matches, or a small candle lighter, my husband uses a gigantic propane torch.

We went trick or treating up and down our street with some of our favorite friends from the neighborhood. There was boundless energy for the most part. It turns out we have a great street for trick or treating! Lots of other creatures were out and about on foot, and…

It was a chilly (although not really downright cold) Halloween here. After sliding out of bed this morning, my prodigies demanded a “spooky breakfast.” I didn’t really have plans for a spetacular spooky breakfast, and we needed to take a trip to the grocery store, so I spent about a…