Last night we saw Mary Poppins at Proctors–loved it. A full review is coming with this week’s KidsOutAndAbout newsletter. As you might expect, everyone’s sleepy this afternoon, and the non-stop weather gloom-fest isn’t helping. Both girls arrived home with math tests that weren’t bad, but weren’t 100%, either. Each girl wanted to review with me … [Read more…]
As I tuck her into bed Friday night, J asks, “Mom, can I please not go to the soccer game tomorrow?” I understand where J’s coming from, here. Monday to Friday is school, Sunday is church, and Saturdays, J is dragged along to M’s 8:30 am soccer game. Tomorrow it’s likely to be worse than … [Read more…]
One of our favorites these days on the Netflix Instant Queue is Friday Night Lights. Yeah, I know: you watched it years ago. We missed it. And then, we heard people say that it was really good, and so we tried a random episode at some point and it just didn’t click. But then we … [Read more…]
Tonight was the Fall Frolic at the girls’ school. Basically a casual field day with a table full of cider donuts and water. I got sucked into helping with the Sack Races. When I arrived, friends were manning the spin-around-with-your-forehead-on-a-bat-and-then-run station. No one was interested. I wasn’t either. I’d just eaten Chipotle, and I’m sure … [Read more…]
It was a hectic evening. The girls seemed to want to do everything but homework, then I had Zumba class from 5:30-6:30 pm and Back to School Night for M starting at 6 pm, and J had gymnastics starting at 6:30. We’d lucked out with a carpool for J, and I planned to leave Zumba … [Read more…]
Man, oh, man, I hope that you’re as psyched up about the harvest and the splendors of nature in the fall as everybody else apparently is, because we are pretty much knee-deep in festivals here in the beautiful Capital District. You can get historic or Celtic or artsy or possibly drunk, depending on where your … [Read more…]
Cute W left for a business trip that will keep him away from us until Friday, so I’m going to go easy on myself tonight and do one of my favorite things: update a brand-new calendar! You might think, considering that I blog and work for a website, that I’d be all tech-savvy and linked … [Read more…]
Today as I was putting J to bed and saying something sensible like, “It’s awfully late, so I think that you should just turn off your light and go to sleep,” J sighed. Exasperated. And said, “Oh, Mom! You’re so . . . mom-ish.” Well, yeah. It’s another somewhat slow week, I’ve gotta say. Everyone’s … [Read more…]
How about that for a gorgeous final weekend of summer? Even though my children and I are all driving each other crazy and I’m looking forward to getting back into a routine, the sunshine and fun we had this weekend make the end of summer so bittersweet. We went to our town pool for its … [Read more…]
Today we managed to fit in errands, a doctor’s appointment, a trip to the pool, a playground playdate and picnic, the first soccer practice of the season, some work, and Cute W’s second (!) fantasy football draft. There’s that end-of-the-summer urgency at this point. What fell by the wayside? Cleaning the house. Maybe tomorrow. Actually, … [Read more…]
