For almost my entire life, the idea of keeping a sabbath was synonymous with keeping Sunday a special day.  Sunday was a day for going to church.  When I was a little girl everything was closed on Sundays, which definitely made the day “special” because it was deliriously boring.  (I…

The Banana has grown leaps and bounds since she started the violin, and without her teacher and I realizing that she needed a larger instrument until one afternoon a couple of weeks ago, when I mentioned something to her teacher.  After measuring her, it was determined that she needed to…

Our red Hugglepod had been a fixture in the corner of our family room for years and years, and then a few weeks ago it died.  It’s possible that it could be repaired, but I don’t know how to do it.  The kidlets were sad.  They were so sad they…

When it’s a sunny, 60 degree day on the first of October, you decide to round up a crew of kids from the neighborhood and go swimming.  Of course. They had a delightful afternoon.  Dr. Peds sat in a chair at next to the creek, and I went for a…

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…