Recently I was gifted with a stack of glossy fashion-and-beauty magazines. I don’t buy these magazines myself. I am fussy about magazines, really. Mostly because they make me feel covetous and inadequate. Fitness magazines make me feel unfit, house-and-garden magazines make me loathe my house, and beauty-and-fashion magazines, predictably enough, tend to make me feel … [Read more…]
Guess what? Local legend Ginny Martin has offered up a copy of her brand-new DVD called Dance Class at Home as a giveaway! Actually, I convinced her to offer up two copies, but the other one is for KidsOutAndAbout, which you would already know if you subscribed to the weekly KidsOutAndAbout.com newsletter like you totally should be. … [Read more…]
Recently I went t to Bombers with friends. I’ve said before that I’m neither a fan of their burritos (I’m a Chipotle girl, myself) nor of their decor, which consists of scantily clad women straddling missiles. But I AM a huge fan of the free giant margarita on your birthday. My friend’s birthday was on … [Read more…]
I’m not taking this snow forecast very well. I know, I know, I’m the one who’s always talking about how we all need to Embrace Winter. And I do think that, on a purely intellectual level. Two winters ago was our best winter ever because we spent so much time ice skating an skiing and … [Read more…]
Why hello. I’ve been slacktastic when it comes to posting, mostly because I’ve been busy. First, hunting down every. single. parent. in the 5th grade to extort a baby picture of their child for the baby pictures section of their graduating-from-elementary-school yearbook (which may be moot if the local middle school closes and they’re stuck … [Read more…]
Hey! I started to make a link list, and then I remembered that I can embed videos easily now, too. And then I realized that when I embed the videos, it screws around with my formatting. And then I decided that I didn’t care. And then I started typing this, and I started to care, … [Read more…]
You may remember that I gave the girls permission to watch Downton Abbey a while ago, in fact just days before an episode which was so sad that I regretted having granted permission in the first place. Well, they love Downton Abbey, and we’ve already blown through two and a half seasons. Tonight we finally … [Read more…]
When we went shopping for Valentines this year, J got ambitious and asked to make little crafts for all the kids in her craft. Luckily, we timed our shopping trip perfectly for Thursday afternoon, so J had an activity all ready for her snow day. They turned out pretty adorable. Target was selling little kits … [Read more…]
Like many of you, we started Friday fully expecting to be stuck in the house for days. In fact, J assembled some supplies. That ice storm when we lost power for days looms large in our family history, so she found flashlights and candles in case we lost power, I guess. Plus her palate expander … [Read more…]
Keep in mind that pretty much everything listed here could be changed or cancelled if it snows, or even if it doesn’t. Apparently there are already some closings and cancellations just based on the weather forecast. Myself, I don’t ever really believe the forecasts. I don’t even watch them–I just notice, eventually, that everyone’s talking … [Read more…]
