Game Review: Sleeping Queens
After our great experience with Dweebies, Wendy recommended Sleeping Queens, one of the games I had noticed on the Gamewright website. Today the girls and I went to Shananigans, our favorite local toy...
View ArticleBallet Shoes and Big Goals
Classic ballet-dancer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) My daughter Lucy had her first ballet recital recently, and yes, I cried a little and sat through the whole recital with an enormous smile on my face....
View ArticleWhat Counts As Cooking?
Cover of The Cake Mix Doctor For this week’s faculty meeting, it was my turn to help provide the snacks, and so I baked a batch of brownies Tuesday evening and brought them in. They garnered several...
View ArticleBits and Pieces
Nutcracker (Photo credit: ginnylgorman) I’ve gotten kind of obsessed with The Big Bang Theory. I was led there through my already-existing Wil Wheaton love, and now I’ve got the DVR set to record them...
View ArticleOn Parent-Child Cellphone Contracts
Image via CrunchBase Lucy and I went out for a mother-daughter lunch recently, and while we were chatting, she said that many of her classmates were going to ask for smartphones for their 5th grade...
View ArticleFoodie Resolutions
Brussels Sprouts (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Over at The Kitchn, one of my favorite foodie sites, they are posting reader resolutions having to do with food. Here are the ones I found most inspiring and...
View ArticleFriday Night
I wrote this almost a year ago, but it felt a little too emotional to post at that point. I’m posting it now because with a little distance, I love the warmth and sense of family that I feel when I...
View ArticleMeal Planning, 1/20-1/26
English: Chef Pepín Slow Cooker (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As part of my foodie resolutions for 2013, I thought I would post whenever I manage to do actual meal planning or freezer cooking. This should...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Not Having a Dog
Here’s the conversation that ensued on our way to the car, one day recently after school. The girls had learned about quinceaneras in their Spanish class and were agitating to have one for their...
View ArticleMeal Planning, 1/27-2/2
Double Crunch Honey Garlic Pork Chops (Photo credit: alanagkelly) What’s cooking this week, you ask? Well, I still have some leftover dinner plans from last week, which makes me think I don’t need to...
View ArticleIn the Middle
Like my friend Anjali, I’m thinking a lot about MIDDLE SCHOOL, which my girls will be entering this fall. And yes, something about it just requires all caps, as it proving to be a more terrifying...
View ArticleDuck Purse
When my girls were three or so, they went through a major collector phase. They each had little purses, one shaped like a duck, one like a frog, and hid all kinds of treasures in there. Lucy was the...
View ArticleAnyone Can Cook
Cover of Ratatouille [Blu-ray]When I was registering for my wedding presents, my mother looked at the mixers and utensils and pizza stone and said, in an incredulous tone, “Well, who’s going to do all...
View ArticleEleven
What a year this has been. The year my girls moved from ten to eleven, they also changed schools: public to private, coed to all-girls, from a large urban school teeming with challenges and diversity...
View ArticleReflecting on Meal Planning
Yellow crookneck squash, a variety of summer squash (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In reading back over many of my blog posts from this school year, it’s clear that one of my big personal projects was to...
View ArticleParty Like It’s Your Birthday
In case you’re wondering, my girls have already started planning their next birthday party. They’re thinking sleepover, movie, pizza, cinnamon buns for breakfast. They’re working on a guest list....
View ArticleWant, Need, Wear, Read
Christmas in the post-War United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “Her face lit up like Christmas morning.” Isn’t that the best feeling? That sense of absolute joy and shock and awe and wonder children...
View ArticleResolved: More Books, Fewer Screens
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s been a long year, friends, and I can’t tell you how glad I am to be inching ever close to the end of it. External stress has...
View ArticleYear of the Clean Person
Do you have laundry sitting in your living room, either waiting to be put away or waiting to be washed? Are there dirty dishes in your kitchen every day? Do you have invisible corners in your house? Do...
View ArticleSlice of Life: Holiday Fair
This past Saturday, our school had its annual Holiday Fair. You’ve probably seen something like it before: moonbounce over here, tables of women selling handmade jewelry and custom-made doll clothes...
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