After watching a Muppet movie a few weeks ago, Mr. Trouble on Feet has become a bit fixated on the Muppets.  Not only does Animal do some awesome drumming, but he particularly loves Fozzie’s comedic antics.  He walks around blurting out “Wocka! Wocka!” at unusual times, and he’s been inspired…

Every year on the first Saturday in December we go to the forest near Boulder Lake to cut down our Christmas trees.  We stumbled on the Christmas Tree cut day the first year we moved here, and it’s become a terrific family tradition.  The day for cutting is always the…

We were walking out of preschool, and I squeezed my boy’s hand.  I love the feel of little fingers.   “I love holding your hand!  When you go to school will you still hold my hand?” He said to me, “Mama, I’ll hold your hand even when I’m 100.”  …

It turns out I love listening to poetry being read aloud even in languages I don’t understand, like Norwegian, Finnish, and Danish.  There’s just that beautiful lilt to the words as they rush and slow, and I love the vowel sounds in Scandinavian languages. My kids can make an enormous…