This past weekend we were lucky enough to go camping with our friends Amy and Peter and their boys. Tom took great joy in telling our local friends that we were going someplace incredibly exotic – perhaps they’d heard of it… San Rafael. For those of you who aren’t from our neck of the woods, …
Category Archives: Holiday
You Say It’s Your
Birthday! Sing it with me! Well, actually, it was yesterday, but what the heck. Sing it anyway. Who cares if you’re at work? Take a chachachachance. What an awesome day – you wake up in the morning and you think, “It’s my birthday!” Or, if you’re particularly fortunate, you have a 5 year old waiting …
Summertime
We’ve had a busy couple of weeks here. The cousins are all having a great time together and we’ve just run from day to day, trying to cram a year and a half apart into a few weeks’ visiting time. Not easy, folks, but we’re doing the best we can. We spent an overnight at …
Joan’s Revenge
Back in Needham a couple weeks ago, my cousin Eileen pulled me aside. “I have to tell you,” she murmured, “we have issues with your neighbor Joan.” It all came down to the ridiculously lovely birthday party Joan put together back in June for her daughter, in which she combined readily accessible decorative materials to …
Rosemary Pool
When I was a kid in Needham, we used to take swimming lessons at Rosemary Pool. There’s a lot to be said for this pool; it’s big, it has a sandy ‘beach’ all along the shallow end and it’s nestled at the base of a small hillside, on the edge of a lake. You can …
Home Again
Back again. I had full intentions of posting while we were away, but with the travel and change in routine, I just lost all momentum to keep things up here. At the end of each busy day I convinced myself that just brushing my teeth before bed was an accomplishment. (Which it IS.) We sure …
And They’re Off
The countdown has been officially noted for a couple of weeks, with Hot Wheels making the announcement at some point each day. “12 days till we go to Boston!” “11 days till we go to Boston!” and so on, as is the nature of a countdown. Yesterday he popped out of bed at 6 and …
Happy 4th!
Hope everyone here in the States had a happy 4th of July! With any luck you had your share of fireworks, fire trucks and marching bands. With drum majors. We hit the parade in Larkspur, which is one town north of ours, and it was good fun. Of course, it’s a little different out here. …
Happy Fathers
Hope all you fathers had happy days yesterday! Dad, I hope you had a terrific time with everyone over – wish we could have been there. It sure sounded like a great afternoon. I think Tom’s day in general could have been better, seeing as he’s still sick, Honey’s still sick, and it was hard …
My Favorite Day of the Year
Goodbye school, helloooooooo summer! Let the games begin.