First Day at the Pool

It was our first day at the pool! Yay! It was an excellent day all-around. J scored a play date during M’s soccer game, which is especially excellent because tomorrow will pretty much be devoted to soccer. Yeah, I know it’s Father’s Day. Don’t even get me started on that one. The final piece of … [Read more…]

Our Last Full Week of School

Hope everyone enjoyed this mostly-beautiful weekend! We were actually excited when it was rainy on Saturday, because we kicked off our Harry Potter film festival, now that we’ve finished off all the books with both girls. In between household tasks and social engagements we managed to knock out the first three movies this weekend. Instead … [Read more…]

Links for You

I’m feeling lazy, so here are some links. On the TU’s Parent to Parent blog, they’re kicking around ideas for where to go for hip hop dance classes. The Empire State Plaza schedule is out! I’m excited that Mike Doughty’s coming. I heard about it from All Over Albany. They just did a review of … [Read more…]

This Week

Camping was wonderful. I am exhausted. I’ll post details later. For now, we’ve got the week, and it’s not too exciting. June is a tough month, I think, because everyone with kids in school is going nutty with spring sports and dance recitals and music concerts and end-of-the-year stuff. The free summer concerts and activities … [Read more…]

Pre: Camping

This is an auto-post. Hopefully we’re camping right now, and it’s not storming all over us. The scene prior to camping was not so good. I had a massive gardening task that I had to complete. More on that later. Then I settled down to write a couple of posts, quickly. J started hovering around … [Read more…]

Pilates at the JCC

I’ve been doing a Pilates class with Lori at the Schenectady JCC.  I really love it. Well, okay. I really love it as soon as I am done. Or maybe, during the last five minutes, when we’re doing something all calming and stretchy and we’re finished. But I like it very much the rest of … [Read more…]

Hairspray, Lupine Festival, Greek Festival, Dutch Heritage Festival, Niska-Day, and More This Weekend

Holy cow, there’s so much going on this weekend. And the weather’s supposed to be awesome. So if you aren’t tempted by all these fabulous offerings, you can just turn the sprinkler on and the kids will be delighted. Here’s this week’s KidsOutAndAbout.com newsletter, and remember that you can click on the date to get … [Read more…]

In Which I am a Good Citizen

We were late for gymnastics today because I had not anticipated the delightful gabfest that voting on the school budget would present. I’d delayed going to vote until after school because I had the vague idea that my children were required to accompany me in order to participate in their vote for the best flavor … [Read more…]

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day! Christy Turlington’s organization Every Mother Counts is asking mothers to  raise awareness about maternal health issues by disappearing for Mother’s Day. I did not disappear. But I do think that you should be aware of the issue of global maternal health. The New York Times Motherlode blog had a recent post about … [Read more…]