Friday was Kids Summer Fun Day at church:  water balloons, bubble painting, crafting, and the consumption of huge amounts of pizza.  This crew came back with homemade silly putty.  There was no end to the silly!

Woo hoo!  Summer has started for us!  I used to be a summer-hating kid, but now that I’m a mom, I love it more and more every single year!  I have been waiting for the start of summer the entire school year, because our family schedule this last year was…

I like watermelon, I just don’t like cutting watermelon.  I don’t like cutting cantaloupe or honeydew either.  It just feels like a tedious, messy task.  My kids love watermelon, though, and when you add in a few neighbor kids, I can assure you that they can consume a couple of…

There’s nothing quite like the happiness of a kid squirting his parent.

We had so much fun with our neighbors last Sunday that we decided to all get together for another Sunday evening picnic.  Since we still had a girl in a cast, it was down to the rocky beach we went (sand and casts did not seem like a wise choice).…

As luck would have it, right after I wrote that post a few weeks ago about how we’ve had the same toaster for 17 glorious years, our toaster died.  Well, actually it almost caught on fire.  Someone put down a piece of toast, and unlike Mr. TOF, instead of running…

The chalkboards are back!  They make me so happy!  A few weeks ago Dr. Peds and I (but mostly Dr. Peds) remanded the boards and primed and painted them with a new thick coat of chalkboard paint.  Now they are smoother than ever, and wash off so easily when it’s…

Doing everything with a cast is hard work.  Everything takes longer and requires so much more effort.  This last week, The Banana has come home from school each day and within just a few minutes, she’s fallen fast asleep.  Deeply asleep.  Naps are good.  Oh, yes.

Saturday was Cougar Chase race day!  The Banana and Mr. SP had been going to running club at school two days each week training to run the 5K race.  On weekends they ran with neighbor friends to stay in shape.  Mr. TOF was pretty frustrated about not getting to go…