October is my favorite month of the year, but the first week of October is one of my busiest weeks of the year.  Music classes start up, I often have more photography clients than normal,  I sing with oodles of preschoolers on Sunday morning at church,  my kids are in…

On my cello I worked on improving vibrato (so, so hard for me!) and I learned several new techniques for playing pizzicato.  I worked on several different bowing and learned one or two shorter pieces and one longer piece of music. I learned a little bit about how to play…

We’ve lived in our house for almost a decade now, and when I was cleaning the entry way a couple of weeks ago I discovered that the rugs next to the door were literally disintegrating.  There were holes in the rugs that you could actually see through, and all of…

Thankfully, Mr. Trouble on Feet has not had very much homework from kindergarten.  We read together each night, and that is perfect.  Mr. TOF loves to run around outside in the September afternoon sun. After years of watching his siblings spend a chunk of their school day afternoons working on…

This fall I have kids in three different school buildings.  It means that kidlets leave the house at three different stages in the mornings, and arrive back home from school in three stages in the afternoon.  Actually the staggered effect is working great for me.  I’m up super early with…

The Banana:  I think we should plant an apple tree in the front yard where the big trees fell.  Then we wouldn’t have to buy apples anymore. Me:  I don’t think Dad would agree to that.  He doesn’t like apples on the ground.  It makes him frustrated. Mr. TOF:  I…

First of all, my apologies that blog posts have not been as frequent as usual the past couple of weeks.  School has started, and we are adjusting to that schedule.  Also, there are lots of things happening behind the scenes here which means I have been caught up in all…

The Banana’s birthday sometimes gets crunched.  It falls during the second week of school, which is always the week where everything gets crazy because homework starts and activities start, and my music students start, and no one has their “school routine” legs under them yet.  Last year her birthday was…

He was pretty excited when he got home from school and found out that I had saved this perfectly sized cardboard box for him.  He’s got big “making” plans that involve markers, scissors, glue and duct tape.

Mr. TOF had a terrific first week at kindergarten.  His stamina amazed me.  He bounced right out of bed with the sunrise all week, practiced piano before breakfast, and was super organized and responsible about his lunch box, backpack, homework folder.  He loves his teacher.  He loves his class.  He…