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 p.j. remembered that I took kids to Como on a day she had school and couldn’t come with, so today when the question arose around 9 am–what are we doing today? She asked to go to the zoo.  It’s free. They accept any donation.  It’s easy. Sure.  The outdoor food stand is torn up in […]

 While we were waiting for the travelers coming from Florida, we kept busy. Those guys were here getting babysat for a while, pretty excited crowd. We had a great time.  Saturday we went to the mall to see the children’s art show. The display was large and impressive. Children did a very nice job on

 These are from last week when we went to Toddler Gym.  We didn’t realize, but it’s over until next October.   This was the last day.  She didn’t feel very good though, and at one point asked me to carry her. Then I thought maybe she was just hungry, so we bought some little cookies from

 Well, these pictures are from this week.  The light was beautiful, pink and periwinkle.  She was here, my right hand girl: We sorted toys and cleaned.  I threw away all the million year old potato heads and some other thing that were done for.  This is how we contain our crawling baby, keep her away

My sister gave us this pretty plant on Easter.  I hope we can keep it alive. This is enough. The snow is just enough! Enough already!  Elin is even pretty over it. She went outside a bunch of times, but even a snow-loving dog looked fairly bored with the whole thing.  We used to use

 They were busy all day, played with toys all over the house. We watched four episodes of Garfield.   (I kind of do love Garfield.)  After lunch, we braved the snowstorm and went bowling.  They were great, took turns, did really well.  The scores were very, very close. We announced it was a tie. What a

In the banner on this blog, Kari, in the white jacket is the little pipsqueak in the pink coat. The rest of them were not born yet. We had a good time, but it was a work out.  I had the stroller with the baby in it, and kept track of those two boys, who

 It was a typical spring break kind of day–too muddy and cold to be outside, but so much energy inside the house.  Plus there’s a winter storm dodging around us, and the weather feels unsettled. Everyone was restless and distracted.  We tried to find things to do, but their attention span was nil. We put

These are our friends from the lake.  He passed away a few weeks ago, and yesterday was the service. It was lovely, absolutely the most loving, funny, astute testimonials to the person he was–his music and art, his listening ear and kindness, the good food and laughter.   It was sad, but also good to be

The Leprechauns came, same as every year. They threw around a mess, threw candy, left a mean note.  p.j. read the note, which seriously was not one of their best insults, and then laughed right out loud.  At Dan’s house the note mentioned something about glitter and buttholes.  Yeesh!  This child has a tablet game