It’s Throwback Thursday so I thought I’d share a picture from the days when I was not afraid I’d throw out my back doing cool things. I was always a x-country skier but in college my then future husband taught me to snowboard. Here I am at Mount Snow (I think) with our Jamaica, VT…
Category: Parenting
I’m your parent not your friend.
Sincerely, your fortune cookie
Cleaning up one’s desk it is not only an exercise in sorting, cleansing, purging and organizing, but in philosophy as well. Here is the little bit of ‘food for thought’ I came across while sorting through the mountain if collected crap that all gets deposited on my desk). I think it’s the perfect thought as…
Once in a blue moon…
What I love about “once in a blue moon…” is that it is carefree. It is not wistful. It has no sense of regret or hunger for more. It just is. And tonight, in the sky there it is… that blue moon
Would you rather…: Birthday Edition
Always keeping me smiling… in between mommy meltdowns of course!
Shut it! or Having a Voice & Knowing When Not to Use It
Parenting… aw heck… life is complicated. We breeze through some parts and struggle, hugging the ground for dear life in other parts. Everything is rarely what it seems. And yet, we all find some kind of sick comfort in criticizing one another… some more than others. I am not writing this about any one particular…
Fairies, Faires, Unicorns and Horses: A Back to School (one last hurrah) Giveaway
Newbury Street is a long row of chic little cafés and restaurants, perfectly assembled window displays, designer frocks, jewels, and shoes… and a fairy store? We all appreciate different things in life. For some fantasy play is trying on Valentino dresses and imagining redecorating the entire house as you stroll through Pottery Barn. For others…
Fair, No Fair, Not Fair
Somewhere between the age of 5 and 8 begins the mantra of childhood ‘not fair!’. It becomes the most spoken phrase and one that raises the tiny hairs on many a parent’s neck and you, the adult, turn into your own parents responding ‘Life is not fair .’ Perhaps you swore you ‘d never say…
Mother of Invention: From Toast to Tide
We still say, ‘This is the best thing since sliced bread!’ Mostly when I say that or hear someone say it we are actually never referring to something life changing. Our lives are full of life-changing, perhaps not in a fabulous, dramatic way, but nonetheless life changing products and inventions. The obvious life changers are…
Mom & Daughter Night Out: Oysters and Burgers in Harvard Square
Sometimes, especially in the summer, you need to divide and conquer. Tonight the boys stayed in and ate farm fresh veggies. The girls went out on the town. Originally, we planned to get $1 oysters at Noir in the Charles hotel (as mentioned on their Facebook Page) but it turned out that there was a…
Stereotypes: Gender, Parenting, and the Status Quo
I’m not sure if the word stereotype by definition is negative, but if I’m honest (and I always try to be) then I truly believe we all depend on stereotypes all the time every day to navigate our world. We make assumptions every time we look at someone. We need a starting point. It becomes…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 