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 …
Category Archives: Fun
Sunday
Don’t know if you could hear it from where you are, but our Australian family arrived on Friday morning, and it’s been a lot of noisy fun since they arrived. The first day we only had about two hours with everyone awake simultaneously; the rest of the afternoon the cousins did their best sleeping koala …
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. …
Too Late
Nearly every day, Hot Wheels runs the numbers. “How much money do we have? If we sell our house AND our Mazda 5, can we buy a Ferrari?” He questions. He plots. He ruminates. Nearly every day. So yesterday we’re strolling the neighborhood together and we pass a red convertible. “That’s a nice Miata,” he says, …
Party Down
So every June we have a party for Tom’s birthday. He loves his birthday – well, any excuse to have a party, frankly. Plus it’s a perfect chance to have our friends over to catch up with Gini and Craig while they’re visiting. After a cold grey week, we were all pleasantly surprised to see …
Happy Birthday Dear Tom
What a fun day here. Gini and Craig came back from a road trip down to southern California, Tom got some awesome presents, we had dinner at a great Mexican restaurant up in San Anselmo. It was all good. In fact Hot Wheels wrapped it up nicely this morning when he said, “Today is …
Cancel the Cavalry
We actually made it to Pillsbury and back with no major events! Wow what a great weekend. The drive was a great adventure – Hot Wheels asked “Are we off-roading yet?” about every 10 minutes the whole way up. When we finally reached the dirt road, it was bliss. Here’s an idea of what it …
Random Notes
I basically live in a cabaret. Someone is always bursting into random singing or dancing around here, so let’s kick things off with the refrains from two of the songs my kids have sung to me over the last two days. “Where is the guy with the crazy lights?” and “I have an odd way …
Connect and Share
If you get the Atlantic Monthly, you may have seen the Sketchbook in the May issue – it was a play on a Facebook group thread called “Facebook Group: World Leaders.” We were all laughing over it a few weeks ago at soccer – what a funny idea. I liked: Muammar Qaddafi is excited to …