Last Saturday Dr. Peds made pancakes for breakfast, which really took place around the time of brunch.  The kidlets love pancakes, with goopy, sticky syrup.  The Banana helped in the kitchen and requested “plain puffy pancakes.”  Our plain puffy pancakes are whole wheat buttermilk pancakes.  Our flat  pancakes are Swedish…

I was really quite smitten with my little guy in his costume.  In fact, I found him irresistible.  I couldn’t stop squeezing him.  He was a wiggly, grinning caterpillar, and there quite possibly might not have been anything cuter than when he fell asleep in his costume crunched up in…

Yay!  The computer is back!  AND everything was rescued.  I’m a happy, happy Mama.  Here are some big kid costumes.  Mr. Sneaky Pants was a clone trooper. He borrowed the costume from a neighbor, but the helmet is a find from the thrift store sent to us from Auntie Dot.…

My internet is back!  (And the phone is working!)  My computer, however, is sadly still stuck in the computer hospital.  I’m hoping they call with some information about what is wrong with it and how they can fix it tomorrow.  It is sorely missed, and I’m really hoping that it…

I’m sitting in a coffee shop. I never take my work to a coffee shop. However, drastic measures are necessary, so I’ve just eaten a Danish roll, and Squirmy and I are in a coffee shop. The storm somehow blew something around, and we’ve lost the connection for internet AND…

I had a horrible night’s sleep last night because of a number of factors, and due to my cold, I lost my voice.  The two worked together to cause me to be a viciously grumpy (yet not too loud) person today.  This evening, however, the whole family bundled up in…

It was way, way too dark to be taking pictures, but last night after we dropped Ya Ya off at a friend’s house for a sleepover, the three youngest kidlets and I walked quickly to the neighborhood park right after sunset.  Squirmy was in a happy, talkative mood, and I…

I have caught a cold.  I cannot smell anything.  Having a stuffy nose always makes me a bit paranoid that I smell or parts of my house smell unbeknownst to me. In the late afternoon I’m sitting on the steps in the foyer. Mr. SP:  (standing right in front of…

Sometimes he’s so much like his (time challenged) father. Me:  Noah!  Time to be done with breakfast.  You need to get to the bus stop now. Mr. SP:  But I’m still eating. Me:  You need to be done eating.  Hurry!  Get your stuff on and run down to the bus…

Mr. Sneaky Pants loves the Magic Treehouse book series.  He is seriously obsessed with it.  I cannot wait for the day when he can read and reread the books himself, (I don’t find them the most exciting thing to read out loud) but for now, reading a chapter of a…