we continued our western new york eating tour by hitting up the pok-a-dot for some beef on weck and gravy fries. (for newer readers of this blog, my gramma, mom and i all worked at the pok-a-dot. a lot of memories. and old friendly faces. i think it’s a national treasure. no? it should be.) […]
vacation
hazel’s first trip to batavia. part one.
i’m only now just recovering from our trip to ny. we got home nine days ago. it was super busy. and i barely slept. and never slept well. and the travels were misery. but, we had lots of fun and adventures. we loaded up and left on a friday afternoon after derek finished a test […]
no dads allowed beach trip. day six.
on our last day, we were decidedly beached out. i had no desire to march everyone out there just to have them whining the whole time and then come back in and desand all of them. so. to the pool we went. i didn’t take many pics, because i was mostly in the pool. there […]
no dads allowed beach trip. day five.
day five. back to the beach. for some reason (anna playing with my phone), i took a bunch of pictures in black and white before i noticed. it’s really hard to see your screen at the beach. so you just take lots of pics of random blobs and hope for the best. 🙂 hazel fell […]
no dads allowed beach trip. day four.
ok. after our horrible day. then our “off campus” day. we were ready to try the beach again. and the results were extraordinary. firstly. the kids were well rested and happy. then, hazel fell asleep in the carrier on the way. so, i was able to just set our stuff down and take a seat, […]
no dads allowed beach trip. day three.
after the terrible day we had the previous day, on beach day numero tres, we decided to stay away from all sand and ocean. and got off campus. we have a zoo membership, which gave us free admission to the aquarium. so, we packed some snacks and off we we went. it was super sunny, […]
no dads allowed beach trip. day two.
so. day two. we decided to go minimalist. the kids took towels and whatever toy they wanted. hazel went in the ergo carrier. and off we went. and we lasted a whopping 30 minutes before isaac had a total meltdown. and hazel’s love affair with the sand and surf came to an abrupt end. so, […]
no dads allowed beach trip. day one.
a few months ago, my friend lorena invited me to the beach. her husband would be out of town and he was sending her and some of her friends and kids to the beach. there were eight moms. and eighteen kids in all. and no dads were allowed. i was a bit stressed about the […]
asheville anniversary. with kids.
this past saturday was our 11th anniversary. so, obviously, we packed the kids up for a hike and an overnight trip in asheville. derek had found a short little kid friendly hike online. not much elevation change. cool rocks to climb on. and a waterfall. so, off we went, to toms creek falls… firstly, we […]
super fast update.
i’m going to race to caption these photos and then get to bed. homeschooling… another post with details to come soon. soonish. hazel’s starting to get grabby. we made cookies. and ate a LOT of cookie dough. perfect cookies. thanks to the cookie scoop. anna got a substantial haircut. the tangled mess was becoming ridiculous. […]