I’ve always loved Fall! I didn’t realize just how much I looked forward to the change from Summer to Fall each year, until we moved to Florida. After 11 years in Jacksonville with no beautifully-colored Fall leaves, no piles for the kids to jump into, no crisp Autumn days, we moved to Northern Virginia. I…
For years, the boys have been asking to have their birthday parties at the pool. Problem is: Ryan’s birthday is the month before the pool opens, Connor’s birthday is the month after the pool closes, and in-door pool parties are just too expensive. So, what to do? Well, we put our heads together, brainstormed…
What do you get when you put FOUR BOYS and TWO MOMS in a LAKESIDE CABIN in Vermont for ONE WEEK? Hours spent at the LAKE: Endless SMILES. More FISH than you care to take off the hook so it’s a good thing the boys learned to do it themselves: Contagious GIGGLES. And Summertime MEMORIES…
It never failed. The day my kids found the park flooded, I didn’t have a change of clothes; the day Connor cut his foot, I didn’t have a first aid kit; and the day, the boys were freezing after playing in the creek, I didn’t have a blanket… or even a towel. UNTIL… Photo coming!…
There’s a time each year, That we always hold dear, Good old summer time; With the birds and the trees’es And sweet scented breezes, Summer doesn’t officially begin for another two weeks, but the signs of summer were all around us this week: temperatures in the 90s, thunderstorms every afternoon, extracurricular activities ending for the…
The day before Valentine’s Day is a special day in our home: it’s Patrick’s birthday! (Happy Birthday, dear one!) Pulling together a birthday celebration the day before Valentine’s Day is a bit complicated, to say the least. Having the birthday boy home ALL week due to snow closings made planning a birthday celebration, much less…
What is he doing? Is he standing on the car? Get down, Ryan! Just kiddin’, Mom!
“[Laura] and the other Laura, and all the other children, scooped up clean snow with their plates then they went back into the crowded kitchen. Grandma stood by the brass kettle and with the big wooden spoon she poured hot syrup on each plate of snow. It cooled into soft candy, and as fast as…
This window is TWO FEET off the ground!
On my thirteenth birthday, my family moved from Southern Maryland to North-Western New Jersey, to a house near the top of “God’s Mountain,” so dubbed by our neighbors who claimed it snowed on top of our mountain when it wasn’t snowing anywhere else in the county (and it did!). It was a lovely mountain with…