Over the weekend it snowed, the kind of  wet, heavy snow that sticks to everything.  On Sunday afternoon while everyone was napping and recovering from our travels I escaped for just a bit of time with my snow shoes and enjoyed all trees cloaked in white.  I love fresh snow,…

Dr. Peds had a conference in Wisconsin Dells, and he brought the rest of us along to partake in the gigantic indoor waterparks (yes, multiple) at the resort where the conference took place.  We haven’t ever taken the kidlets to Wisconsin Dells, and of course they were very excited about…

Many mornings Mr. Trouble on Feet wakes up right along with the big kids because they are incredibly noisy in the morning as they stomp about finding clothes and fight about brushing their teeth and wail about one thing or another.  The first thing Mr. TOF asks about when he…

  I came home from a walk and these three were laughing up a storm in the front yard, yelping and whooping down the steep slope of the yard and then back up the plow grade, back and forth down until their sleds finally stopped down at the corner.  Using…

YaYa is doing great with the oboe!  The past two weeks she started to play real tunes:  Old MacDonald and Yankee Doodle.  She was a bit apprehensive.  OK, she was a extremely apprehensive about playing songs because she was worried that they wouldn’t sound right and frustrated about having to…

Every morning he comes downstairs for breakfast at the last minute hoping I will forget to tell him to back upstairs to wet down and comb his hair.  Every morning I tell him to go back upstairs to comb his hair, and brush his teeth while he’s at it.  He…

Cousin Alex is still one of the most wonderfully energetic people I’ve ever met.  He bounces all of his waking hours.  One day while we were visiting  Grandma Kathy, I happened to notice him sitting very still on the couch.  This is kind of a rare moment, so I crept…

  It was so beautiful.  I’m glad I looked out the window and saw it before it blew away in the sunny breeze.