The girls got a bunch of candies. Naturally, some of them were more well-received than others. Along with the leftovers that no trick-or-treaters had chosen at our door (cough, cough: Whoppers), whatever the girls didn’t want was dumped into a large Halloween bowl. So, first of all: pretzels? Pretzels are not special! Who freakin’ wants … [Read more…]
There’s candy all over my living room carpet–part of an elaborate bartering system set up between the sisters–but besides that, I am sweeping Halloween out of the house as quickly as possible. It’s not that I’m anti-Halloween. I just feel like it snuck up on me this year, so I’m trying to get a jump … [Read more…]
Somehow the summer got away from me and I never got around to posting more about our vacation out west. Well, I mentioned it, and then I told you about visiting family in Cute W’s family hometown and hiking around the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. But that was all just the first week of a … [Read more…]
We picked up our seasonal ski rentals at Goldstock’s today. If you’re thinking of skiing or snowboarding with the kids this year, renting by the season is a much, much better deal than renting by the day. If your kids don’t ski or snowboard yet and you want to learn, I recommend a season pass … [Read more…]
I visited The Children’s Museum at Saratoga last week to see a couple of brand-new exhibitions and a bit of rearranging that they’ve been doing lately, opening up the space to make it brighter and tinkering with what’s available. First, there’s the Pet Vet Exhibit, designed to teach about animals and let kids pretend that … [Read more…]
Yesterday was my birthday. It was not one of my top birthdays ever. I had a really bad cold, Cute W was out of town, and I’d gotten my birthday present early (I’d been in dire need of a laptop after my last one died, literally with a quiet puff of smoke). So I basically ran … [Read more…]
First, look at these flowers. What’s particularly amazing about them is that Cute W got them for me before he went on his business trip last week, so when I took this photograph, this bouquet from ShopRite had been sitting in our house for eight days. That’s pretty crazy, right? Okay, I’ve actually been pretty … [Read more…]
[This is a guest post by Tessa Edick, author of Hudson Valley Food & Farming: Why Didn’t Anyone Ever Tell Me That? FarmOn! will be having a Harvest Festival on Halloween Saturday, October 31st.] My food legacy: Born and raised in Upstate New York, I fled farming life for a city mentality, a cosmopolitan lifestyle, … [Read more…]
Recently I wrote about how my kids almost died at a Vermont swimming hole. Or, it felt like they almost died. In the course of the story, I’d said, “At that point it felt perilous to yell at them to stop.” And as I wrote that line, I went looking for a post about one … [Read more…]
I’ve long felt that the fact that neither of our kids are enthusiastic bikers is one of our Great Parental Failings. Both Cute W and I really like to bike. We brought the kids along early with a trailer and later the Trail-gator. I think that part of the problem is that kids just bike … [Read more…]
