after our time in batavia, we began to make our way east. we had a few days to kill on our way to the adirondacks, and decided to detour through the finger lakes. our first stop was the corning museum of glass. we wandered around the exhibits for a little while. the kids weren’t super […]
2023 summer road trip. week one. batavia.
summer in north carolina is super dumb. hot. humid. and dumb. this year, we escaped much of said dumbness by heading north for most of july. our first stop on the road trip took us to my homeland of batavia, new york. we piled into the subaru, which feels smaller and smaller each summer, but […]
juney things.
june was a blur. the end of school for all three kids. anna at summer camp. some cakes. lots of work shifts. some sewing. play dates. still the gym. and getting ready to be gone for most of july. here’s what happened, according to the photos i took. (some other stuff probably happened, but i […]
fanny pack attack.
one evening, while mindlessly scrolling instagram, i happened upon a post for the emerson crossbody bag by the blanket statement, and i knew i had to have it. and let’s be clear, we all know this is a fanny pack, riding the wave of the current trend of crossbody bags. either way, i have been […]
inter-universal superhero cakery
hilarious. that i thought i wasn’t going to make anymore cakes. why can’t i just say no?my old pal kelley reached out to see if i could churn out some sort of cake magic for her youngest kiddo, turning four, who is a fan of many superheroes, spanning both the marvel and dc universes. and […]
uno graduation cake.
after that super stressful wedding cake, i swore i wasn’t going to make another cake anytime soon. then. i was hanging out with my old college roommate/teammate/friend and she asked if i would make a graduation cake for her youngest daughter and her friend, and of course i said yes. it was a MASSIVE sheet […]
brubaker’s bison class gift.
suddenly, it was the end of hazel’s first year in public school. she had a lovely experience in mrs. brubaker’s third grade class. and it just so happened that her class mascot was a bison (mrs. brubaker is a national park enthusiast). so, it seemed like a good opportunity to make a cool geometric bison […]
forays into sample sewing.
at my little part time job at my local quilt shop there’s an occasional need/opportunity for quilts to be made to display in the shop. i took them up on a couple such opportunities, and here’s the details. the first quilt was a christmas/winter block sampler type quilt, to be made from a kit that […]
good old stone mountain.
in an effort to prepare for some summer hiking excursions, derek and i rustled up the willing lidkids for a saturday hike at stone mountain. we took the route that begins with a steep climb, which resulted in a lot of grumbling and breaks. eventually, we were at the top, where we took a nice […]
may of twenty twenty three.
may has come and gone, so here’s the monthly update of happenings in lidkid land that don’t require a full blog post. here we go. (warning. this one is all over the place and weird and maybe boring). first of all. derek has continued to work on our deck, when the weather and his time […]