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Mr. Sneaky Pants Gets the Giggles
I love this image of Mr. Sneaky Pants that I caught this afternoon. It's much better in real life, of course. Try clicking on it to make it bigger. Lately, this little guy has been very, very into cooking. He's always asking me what he can do to help…
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Music Class Mornings
I am so excited that one of my music class families gave me these pictures, because, of course, I can't take pictures when I'm singing and dancing! We just started a new session of music and movement classes at both of assisted living centers last week. This time all the…
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Consuming Spinach: Reverse Psychology
This child likes spinach. In fact, Mr. Sneaky Pants even asks for spinach as his vegetable. It's because he is growing at incredibly rapid rates, and I always tell him, "Stop that growing! No more growing! You can't get any bigger. And no more healthy vegetables for you! Absolutely no…
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Do Not Disturb
Do not disrupt the cookie eating frenzy. Period.
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Conversations with Mr. Sneaky Pants: Today and Yesterday
Last night, Mr. Sneaky Pants came over in front of the fire where I was crocheting and began in his very animated storytelling fashion to tell me: Mom, you know that Hannah, that disgusting Hannah that lives with us? That one? She doesn't like me and I don't like her.…
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Happy Accident
The summer that I was eleven, I rode my bike to town once a week and took art lessons from my great grandmother, with a skinny boy who was a year older than me whom my great grandmother really liked. He came to visit her a lot. I was terrible…
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Ice Chunks
This time of year, Lake Superior is a massive artist, sculpting miles and miles of fickle, icy artwork along her jutted shores. It never ceases to amaze me how the ice changes from day to day. One day it will appear frozen over for miles and miles, and the next…
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A Dogsled Ride on a Sunday Afternoon
Dogsledding is a big deal where I live. I never really anticipated living in a place where dogsledding would be a big deal, but the fever for it this time of year is quite contagious. (There was a very big and important dogsled race throughout Northern Minnesota that started and…
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A Warm Weekend at a Winter Beach
The temperature actually rose above freezing this weekend, so we spent as much time outside as possible. Saturday afternoon we went to the beach and played on the icy landscape. To make things even more fun, we brought along a few boards from our scrap pile. In the hands of…