Taos to Boulder

Happy New Year! We’re in Boulder, getting ready to head to Frisco today for our last week in the West. Our last few days in Taos were sunny, warmish, and beautiful. On Christmas Eve, we met up with some friends who live in Maryland to ski with them at Taos. Gilbert had a bone to…

Winter Break

After a tough semester, we wrapped everything up and headed out of town! First we departed around 4:30 am; Patrick and I had both been sick, and Harlan missed school on Tuesday, and Seamus had missed the Tuesday before, so like everyone else in the world, we’re having a cruddy fall. It’s not Covid, but…

Thanksgiving–Lead Up

I pretty much was done with work on Friday last week, but I decided to offer some optional field trips to my students. On Saturday, it was so cold, but Gilbert and Patrick went to an outdoor woodworking class anyway. They had fun, and Patrick said it was a good experience for Gilbert to work…

Memorial Day Fun

Memorial Day is the most fun community holiday in our town. There’s a 3K fun run at 9:00, carnival festivities at the park, and a big parade at 2:00. Yesterday, we all wanted to go to the fun run, but Patrick had to get his pedicab for the parade, and Gilbert had committed to playing…

Spring Skiing

We’ve been trying to decide if we are going to renew our ski passes, but then, we have a week like this one, and it’s a no-brainer. As of today, most of us have 23 days of skiing for the season. We plan to ski tomorrow and Sunday, bringing us to 25. Some of our…

Transition Days

It snowed! In Falls Church, but we weren’t there, so we missed it. That was fine, because it meant that while we are still in the West, the kids aren’t missing school. We skied one beautiful day at Arapahoe Basin, and it was a really fun mountain. We had considered skiing on our transition day…

Skiing Copper Mountain

For the last few days, we’ve been at Copper Mountain during the day, and hanging out with our cousins at night. We have had a lot of snow. From Thursday until Saturday morning, it snowed and snowed. I think all told, we had about 12-14 inches of snow. We had a little trouble getting out…

Christmas in Steamboat

As usual, Christmas was thrilling for the whole family. The little guys could barely contain their excitement. Santa came, leaving a Lego for Porter and Harlan, some trucks that he picked up from another house and left second hand in Steamboat. Unfortunately, Harlan recognized them… Seamus got a beautiful illustrated book of ski maps and…

Lead Up to Break

We had a solid run up to Christmas, with some lovely traditions. We added some new things. For the first time, we put some lights on our bushes outside. I took Porter and a friend to see Junie B Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, a play at the community center that Porter’s friend was performing in.…

More Fun

Porter, Harlan, and I went to the tree lighting ceremony on campus. They had cookies and hot cocoa afterwards, but their favorite part was rolling down the big, steep hill on campus! I took the younger boys to Scottish Walk. Definitely festive to see the bagpipers and the kennel clubs with the different dogs–corgis, Westies,…