We spent last evening at a small exhibition of watercraft, where Sophie bravely sampled everything they had to offer — from canoes and kayaks to standing paddleboards — despite her own fairly extreme reluctance to get her face wet, and Christy even managed to talk Haley into a tandem kayak. This was a bit of […]
The girls have really taken to St. Patrick’s Day and after some online browsing of leprechaun trap photos, Haley spent an entire evening turning a cardboard box into a St. Patrick’s themed wonder. Sophia added the ladder and sign (and had hoped for a trickier trap) and crafted a note in code, mentioning that she’d […]
I’ve never planted amaryllis before, but I saw the bulb on sale at our local grocery store in December and decided to give it a try. After the initial potting with the cool coconut fiber expanding potting material, we pretty much forgot about it until it started to bud two weeks ago. The girls were […]
…for the New Year’s parade last weekend — and, while taking advantage of the truly lovely and unseasonal weather, introduced my in-laws to dim sum, which somehow they’d never managed to encounter. (The girls, of course, had their usual — sesame chicken covered in sweet orange goop over mounds of white rice — but the […]
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest…
My beloved cat — mostly named Cat, although his given name as a kitten (passed down to us from my wife’s college roommate, who gave him to us) was Ignatius, and who spent a year or two being called Mr. Twinkle when Sophie was a toddler — died on my kitchen table this evening, while […]