family

I was digging and digging yesterday, worried that I’d lost it: the hands garland I made last year for Thanksgiving.  Each of our family’s hands, traced and cut out, then stitched…

I was led to this short clip by my friend Dave, by way of our mutual friend Heather, and it encapsulated all that I have been wordlessly feeling lo, these many…

School’s not out forever!  It’s BACK!! Still my favorite back-to-school video ever, from the now (sadly) retired Looky, Daddy: The First Day of Preschool from Brian Sargent on Vimeo. For those…

In the evenings, after the kids are in bed and the dishes are done (not by me–that’s what high schoolers are for) and my classes are complete and I’ve shut down…

If you don’t hear from my by Friday, call in the National Guard.  I’m the one buried under the paper towels and Clorox.…

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Our little family–all six of us–celebrated the Fourth in Boston (and thereabouts).  It was the first non-work-related vacation that my husband and I have taken in six years, and both of…

You don’t have internet at the new place yet.  So, no, you cannot live blog your move. Anything that’s not in a box?  The movers won’t take that.  Get ready to…

Odds are pretty good you won’t hear much from me this week.  Friday is MOVING DAY and I am in full-on frantic panic mode.  I have a class to teach, regular…

Our family has accidentally started a tradition.  Every year, on Memorial Day, we take a hike–literally.  It began, I think, when we were at a reunion for my husband’s family in…

So, I’m a die-hard no-Christmas-til-the-day-after-Thanksgiving kind of girl.  We don’t get out the decorations or the stockings or go see Santa until after the turkey has cleared the table (or the…

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To the woman who birthed me and raised me and taught me to sew, and who is prouder of me than I could be of myself, who takes photos at every…

As a couple, my husband and I work hard to reserve two nights of the week: Friday for Family Movie Night and Saturday for Date Night.  We’re not always successful, sadly,…