Monthly Archives: June 2019

When there is a pond at the campground, we start off with a swim. Sometimes it feels like we should just skip everything else and go on a pond swimming trip. After our big day in Provincetown yesterday, it seemed like we needed some time in nature. Some of the most spectacular features of Cape […]

Popi went back to California today. This means that for the next 2-ish weeks, we will be on our own. Precisely put, I will now be flying solo around the country with 5 kids. Things can get hard. Im hoping they are all old enough for smooth sailing. Our first adventure was Plymouth Rock. This […]

The best thing about Boston was the rain. It rained and rained and rained on our walking tour, and so we all got t have umbrellas. There is no joy like walking around Boston in the rain with an umbrella. I have been to Boston several times, and each time i am struck by how […]

Two days to enjoy both this forest and Boston. Best to begin with a fairy forest photo shoot. Except we didn’t have fairy costumes. This forest bursts with natural art. The greens are bright and varied. Several bright red mushrooms peeked out from the leaves. Even the trees seemed to fall in ordered beauty. Our […]

Today we took our kids to one of the stops we made on our honeymoon bike trip: Walden Pond. Of course, our kids have to swim in all the ponds, and they have no idea who Henry David Thoreau is. I have not yet tortured them with transcendentalism. I do love that Walden Pond is […]

There are two main reasons we made this trip to the East Coast. One reason is the family reunion. The other reason is that my college partner-in-crime, Alicia, was getting married. I knew this would be hectic. However, I could not make it a one-event trip. My kids needed to see their cousins, and I […]

We spent 4 days in Hershey Pennsylvania for the family reunion. Because of the wedding I was in, I spent only 2 days in Hershey, but my kids got to spend all kinds of crazy time with cousins. There were enough kids for everyone. Each of my kids had at least one cousin their age, […]

I set my alarm for 7:00am so that we could look kind of responsible and like we were not utterly sleep-deprived. Alarm didn’t ring. We woke up at 9:00-ish. So much for looking remotely responsible for my husband’s family. But, shoot, better they know that we are just a wild bunch up front, right? So […]

Pressing on. This morning Brandon reminded me of Jim Gaffigan saying of hotel pools, “Oh, yay! I get to swim and stay and pee all at the same time!” We stayed in our first hotel last night. We had to get two rooms because we are basically hauling a small village across the country, and […]

Dear, Uncle Nathan, Several years ago, you casually mentioned that a place exists where free range kids can climb old city rubble to the top of a building, hang off the top of the building on a school bus, slide down an 11-story slide, and its all made from recycled junk. I mean, seriously, that’s […]