Summer So Far

We spent a week in Cape Cod, and gosh, it went by fast! We got up super early on Saturday to avoid traffic. We stopped for Sandwiches in Sandwich, and it was delicious! The week passed in a blur of baseball clinics in the mornings for the kids, sailing on the pond in the afternoons,…

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…

Back to School

It’s so fun to be able to go into the kids’ school. Today, a beautiful Friday, I was able to walk up the hill to the younger kids’ school to volunteer in art class. It was fun to see the children drawing the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Tidal Basin, etc. They all were in good…

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.…

Halloween and a Strange Week

Last week was weird. We lost a lot of momentum but are getting it back this week. Halloween was a blast. The boys loved their costumes and trick-or-treating with friends. Because it wasn’t a school night, they were able to hang out later than normal. Seamus spent a good chunk of the evening with his…

Home for a Blink

It was good to be home, but we all managed to catch a cold somewhere in the last part of our trip. It wasn’t Covid, but everyone was a little snotty, coughing, and sore throats. UGH. But at least it wasn’t while were were travelling. So we actually spent our time at home hunkered down.…

October, Really?!

I can’t believe it’s so close to Halloween already. Trick-or-treating is a big up in the air question mark, but I think the neighborhood consensus is starting to converge around leave a bowl of candy at the end of your driveway, set up a chair in the yard, and watch the kids walk by with…

Protest, Talk to Kids, Donate, Keep Going

When you think things can’t get worse. It’s been a difficult (what an understatement) spring. Those of us in my generation were largely spared Cold War fears, and things looked good. Then 9/11 changed our views of war and showed how racial profiling would dominate and create divisions among people for the next 20 years.…

Seamus’s 11th Birthday–Pandemic Style

We are now celebrating the second birthday in all of this craziness. He had a pretty good day, despite having a serious case of the birthday sads on Saturday before his birthday. We celebrated with treats, presents, and a birthday playdate of online Dominion with his buddy in Michigan. He was satisfied, and it seemed…

Easter

Here we are, five weeks down, who knows how many to go? The kids’ schools are really great, and they stay occupied with learning for 2-3 hours a day. Harlan rides the dirtbike all over the yard. I guess I just shouldn’t worry about or want grass in the yard. We celebrated Easter. Aunt Denise…