after a couple of absolutely beautiful days, the scattered rains started back up again, so on our fourth day in the adirondacks, we opted for an indoor-ish activity. but first. before any folks in either of our respective families were even awake, this road life mom friend and i snuck out for a coffee, and […]
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moms only hike.ADK adventure #3.
as i am sure you know by now, if you are a person who has read about our previous adventures on this blog or my instagram, whenever we are somewhere amazing for a few days, derek always tries to make sure that i have a day to do a longer, more epic hike. it works […]
ausable chasm and whiteface.ADK adventure #2
a long long time ago, when we were just starting to plan our trip to the adirondacks, i mentioned to a road life friend the dates that we would be there and we discovered that she and her family would be there at the same exact time. soooooo, we promptly scheduled an activity together, taking […]
ithaca and utica pit stops.
as we traveled from the homeland of batavia to our next big desination (the adirondacks), we made two overnight stops, ithaca and utica. both places near and dear to my heart. first up. ithaca. on our way in from batavia, we first stopped in corning to check out the museum of glass. after that, we […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
hazel’s first field day.
the crazelnut has had a pretty great first year at vienna elementary. we had always heard fantastic things about the school and it definitely lived up to the reputation. as the year was winding down, folks started talking up the big field day, aka: the pfafftown olympics. having been to a few field days back […]
cakes to celebrate marriages. old and new.
i don’t know what i was thinking, but when an old friend from my teaching days reached out to see if i would be interested in making a wedding cake for her daughter, i agreed to take on the challenge. it didn’t seem too complicated and they are super laid back, so it didn’t seem […]