for this years family vacation, we kept things simple. a week in the adirondacks, followed by a week in western new york. and since we were going to the adirondacks first, our route would take us through the catskills, right past a hike i long ago placed on my bucket list. in 2016, when we […]
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junie things.
it’s halfway through july as i type this. and we have been keeping pretty busy and active, so this all seems like a million years ago. but alas. i will do my best to recapture the moments. away we go… firstly. a lovely hike with ruby to hanging rock state park. a favorite of ours. […]
second annual girls beach trip
as it so happens, my two girls are bffs with a set of sisters from another lovely family. a family whose mom is willing to take all four of them to the beach for a long weekend. i don’t have much information to accompany the pics she was sending or that i stole from anna’s […]
MAY-hem (2025).
it’s that time of year. when all the anniversaries and birthdays and mothers days and end of school concerts and graduations and field days and class parties come together to create the most chaotic month of mayhem for our little crew. and then there’s the in between stuff. and that’s what i’ll be talking about […]
the end of elementary….
the last lidkid, hazelnut, is done with elementary school. our k-5 years were pretty non-traditional… a few years of public school at two different elementary schools for ike, followed by several years of road school and home school for all three kiddos. but, the final three years of elementary school for hazel were spent at […]
mothers day weekend with the middle kid.
a few weeks before mother’s day, unsure of what i wanted to do to celebrate myself (and the birthing of three children), i was poking around some state parks to see what camping options were available. much to my surprise, gorges state park had one last campsite opening, so i snagged the reservation, not really […]
and then. the annababy was fifteen.
man these years just keep flying by. seems like yesterday the annababy was the worlds more adorable toddler, quietly going about life, observing and mean mugging, desperately avoiding attention at all costs. and now. well. she’s still observant. but very much loves any and all attention and is anything but quiet. she is into all […]
stay gold, annababy.
here we are again. another lidkid birthday. they just keep coming at me. this time around, it’s the annababy. and what does a nerdy, literary, aspiring theater kid want for their fifteenth birthday cake? why an outsiders musical theme, of course. two days before her party, she gave me very specific, slightly chaotic, and somewhat […]
april things.
with the school calendar moved up a bit, april has gotten a little bit busier. it used to be the calm before the storm, complete with a bit of spring break crammed in there. but now all of the end of year stuff really starts gearing up. and, there was literally one day off from […]
easter twentytwentyfiver.
we hosted the easter festivities at our (stupid new house) again this year. which was obviously just my big fat excuse to make one million easter themed treats and sweets. despite plans to make two cakes and decorate sugar cookies with the girls, i decided it would be necessary to also make massive brown butter […]