Cross Country Skiing

I don’t do it often, but I do love getting creative every once and awhile.  And I’m pretty proud of how these little projects turned out! These are over a period of about 3 months, lest anyone get any crazy ideas. But now I’m exhausted and will go into crafty hibernation for the winter. Sarah,…

With the rain finally gone, we decided to head North for a beach day on Cape Ann.  The day was still pretty windy, so we decided to head to a lighthouse and hope the weather improved before we got to the beach..  It was called Eastern Point Lighthouse and had a fun little jetty to…

Hello, July.  Thank you for bringing almost unbearable heat and humidity with you. Thank you very much.  We all didn’t have another hot, humid sight seeing day in us, so we took a day to head back to Boston Common and cool off at the Frog Pond.  This is an ice staking rink in the…

Halle started 1st grade on Aug 18th.  She had been a little nervous all summer because someone told her that her teacher was bossy.  She came home from meeting her teacher and dropping off school supplies and she was so excited.  She said, “Mom—my teacher is sooooooooooo nice!  She’s not bossy at all!”  The relief…

Growing up, every Christmas Eve Rusty and his brothers would go skiing with his Dad while his Mom stayed home, wrapped presents, prepared Christmas Eve dinner, and got everything ready for Christmas morning.  After we were married, we carried on this tradition a couple of times, but all our tiny kids made it hard to…