YaYa and I had a good time making birdseed cookies while Mr. Trouble on Feet was napping and The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants were building with Legos in the piano room, (we call the living room the piano room now, since the piano takes up a lot of it!  Also,…

These days I more often than not find myself in a state of survival, taking one task at a time and completing and not having a lot of spare time for things other than sleeping.  However, if I were suddenly gifted with a large quantity of spare time, I do…

On Saturday we loaded up the van with kidlets and headed down to the lakewalk for the Harvest Run, a 5K run that Dr. Peds and YaYa signed up for a few months ago.  Mr. SP was also scheduled for a 1K run (although on race day he was not…

It is most certainly true that this child does not enjoy studying for his spelling test each week, but I’d like to take a moment to mention that his transition into second grade, something that caused him anxiety weeks before school began, has gone exceptionally smoothly.  He’s been relaxed about…

Our resident kindergartener caught the cartwheel bug at school!  She’s my first kidlet with a love of cartwheels, and she turns them every chance she gets in an open space.  I, too, was a cartwheel girl.  I spent swaths of time in elementary school upside down turning carthwheels and trying…

We can’t drive past some of our favorite beaches without stopping at at least one even though it was a bit chilly and windy!  The kidlets requested a bit of time to play in the sand, and of course we obliged.  It was my favorite time of day, and it…

We spent Sunday at the Apple Festival in Bayfield.  I pretty much love everything about Bayfield, and we always enjoy the apple festival, although it is a bit crowded with tons of people.  The kidlets and Dr. Peds tried many different kinds of carmel apples and other apple treats.  I…

The look on the right image is exactly the look he gives me when he’s saying, “Mom!”  Meaning “Mom, get it together and do what I’m asking even though you can’t quite understand what it is I want or you don’t think it’s a good idea.”  In this case, it…

Now that I’ve finally calmed down a bit regarding the issue of loosing my toddler a week ago Wednesday and people calling the police (which incidentally resulted in a surprise visit from Child Protection Services earlier this week to investigate our family and which placed me in a very bad…