Kris and I took the kids to see Santa and Mrs. Claus on the most decorated street in Bedford (just over the line from Manchester) Friday evening. An amazing night, all the more so due to its entirely non-commercial, neighborly, word of mouth nature; no charge to visit with Santa (even if you want to [...]
Sometimes nothing soothes the spirit like a day spent in the outdoors – away from the computer monitor and keyboard, the desk and lamp, the debilitating radiation of the television. But this doesn’t always require a journey into the wilderness. This afternoon, after Isobel got up from her nap, Kris and I took the kids [...]
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For me, having grown up here in New England, apple picking is a ritual as iconic as country fairs, sugar on snow, cutting your own Christmas tree, and fishing opening day of trout season. Not I do any one of these things annually, exactly - though most, most years. But they mean enough to me, [...]
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This weekend was full of family events, including Saturday’s birthday party for Sofia (wow, a troop of 5-year old girls can make some noise!, happy noise, of course), Kris’ mom out for the weekend, planting, a baseball game and a hike today up Mount Uncanoonuc. The kids were abed early, and I’m not far behind [...]
I’ve been bad at keeping up on the blog lately, and my mom called me out on it during our Mother’s Day call on Sunday. So here, with the kids abed a few minutes yet before I head there myself, I’m taking a moment to post a cute family blog post from a recent vacation [...]
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Since Kris is now napping on the couch in front of the wood stove, I get to write the first blog post about her first half marathon (though I won’t steal her fire by retelling too many of the stories – just wanted to post some of these pictures). She finished the 13.1 miles of [...]
We went to Beverly, Mass., Sunday afternoon with the Broussards to see the Le Grand David magic show at the Cabot St. Cinema (the story of which will be a post unto itself soon) and afterward grabbed dinner at Acapulcos. Here we discovered what a mariachi fan Sofia is…
I won tickets to Sesame Street Live in Lowell tonight and we took the kids – and now I get why parents brave traffic, the risk of tired kid melt-downs, expensive concession stands and all the rest of the challenges presented by packing up the family and trucking off to a nighttime spectacular. All of [...]
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Help Im flod.
I know how this creation of Sofia's (as captioned by David at her request) feels… I am too. Help! Then again, who isn't? On a different note, I love that David [...]
Trick-or-treating with the kids on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, Oct. 26, 2008. If our kids were older, maybe it would be a bummer to have trick-or-treat on a different day than Halloween, and to have it in the daytime, but our kids are all young enough so that the decorations (some professional haunted house quality [...]
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