He refers to me as “The Ex-English Teacher,” especially when he’s angry at me because I am making him do his homework.  Actually, it’s not that I’m making Mr. SP do his homework necessarily, it’s more that I’m making him check over his homework.  He actually does his homework quite…

The leaves were amazing, and I went into this weekend with a goal to go on at least one short hike each day, since I was home alone with all the kidlets.  YaYa despises hikes, so I didn’t try to wrangle her to come along.  On Friday I took the…

We were worried that we might not make it to Applefest in Bayfield this year, even though Auntie Dot, Grandma and the cousins were visiting and we planned  on meeting friends there.  It rained and rained all weekend, but the precipitation had dwindled to a drizzle by Sunday morning, so…

Grandma Kathy, Auntie Dot, Cousin Alex, and KaKa came to visit for the weekend.  The weather was rainy and stormy, which meant that we couldn’t always get outside like we might have liked, but when I realized that the wind was coming from the perfect direction to make some big…

The leaves are beautiful this week!  When I read the weather forecast for last weekend:  gale force winds off the Lake and heavy rain, I inwardly groaned, sure that such a combination would blow down all the beautiful maple leaves before I got to enjoy them.  However, because the leaves…

It was the hike that lasted long, but went nowhere!  At least we had fun going nowhere at a snail’s pace.  The maple leaves were just starting to turn a bit last Sunday evening.   They ran across the bridge about a thousand times, dragged their walking sticks on the…

To make up for stopping at Home Depot (again) when no one wanted to,  so he could  ” buy random things,” or so the kidlets grumped from the back of the van, Dr. Peds brought a package of glowsticks back to the car.