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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…

Mmmmmm.  Cookies.

  I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  Our day was slow and quiet and just what we needed.  Dr. Peds had to work at the hospital, but he made it home in time for our late afternoon meal.  The rest of us stayed in our pajamas and slowly cooked…

Birthdays that fall on school days.  Sigh.   Every birthday should be on a weekend, I think.  Nevertheless, celebrate we do!  We were up long, long before the sun.  I ran to the grocery store as soon as it opened up for the day and acquired the requested donuts.  As…

Here is YaYa’s latest painting.  She was frustrated with several aspects of it, but I absolutely love, love, LOVE it.

I had something important to talk to Mr. Sneaky Pants about. Me:  Come on in here for a minute.  I have something I want to talk to you about. Mr. SP:  Oh no!  No way!  You have got to be kidding. Me:  What? Mr. SP:  The three worst things you…

At the end of last week it turned cold, but the Saturday before that was warm and beautiful. We headed to the forest to burn off some energy.  This “stickophone” was developed especially for interforest communications.  

I love Mr. TOF’s face on these last three images.  Everyone else was jumping.  He did NOT want to be left out.  He was so scared he wouldn’t make it over the puddle and that he’d get his shoes wet.  He didn’t want to be “the baby” and miss out.…

Our Grateful Tree is up in the dining room.  I found a branch in my neighbor’s forest a few weeks ago and she let me drag it home to plunk in a pot, becoming our November tree in the dining room. Actually, my friend was about to use the branch…