Family Life & Kids
Camping Trip Highlights
May 31, 2008
Last weekend the kids came home with sandy pockets stuffed with seashells and I came home with a memory card filled with not-so-great photos. But some of the weekend's highlights couldn't be collected from the beach or captured, poorly or not, on camera. I'll call them my trip treasures, and ...
Cookin' in the kitchen
May 30, 2008
The kids and I spent the morning at the Nutrition Center Kitchen cooking with the Lots To Gardens crew, preparing food for a supper & live music fund raiser at the Franco-American Heritage Center tonight. Nutrition Center Kitchen We love what Lots to Gardens does, "challeng(ing) the cycles of poverty ...
Camping at Camden Hills State Park
May 27, 2008
This past weekend we camped for 4 days and 3 nights at Camden Hills State Park. A great camping area; lots of trees & hot showers with easy access to miles of hiking and ocean. The area itself is touristy with lots to do and see (if you want to ...
Celine's Day
May 23, 2008
My oldest child turned 9 today - yikes. It was a lovely day. This year Celine's birthday coincided with day one of Patagonia's Memorial Day weekend sale. An annual event in our family's clothing shopping. We also make a pilgrimage to the Freeport store on President's Day weekend and Labor ...
Treehuggers and proud of it
May 14, 2008
My children don't even know they are environmentalists but they do know they are (gasp) tree huggers. They don't know this could be a shameful admission in some crowds. Don't tell them, I'm proud of who they are and so are they apparently. Out of the blue Celine had this ...
Mother's Day gifts
May 11, 2008
I know you're all dying to know exactly what kind of card Laurent was making me this week. This morning it was unveiled. A picture made by pounding flowers onto paper and outlining with ink. My kids are amazing. The sun and its rays from dandelion The ground made from, ...
Dandelion Love
May 9, 2008
This afternoon I listened as Laurent hammered a Mother's Day card/gift for me. "Thunk, thunk" followed by running downstairs (he was working in his room upstairs above the kitchen) and "I gotta go outside for something". Back indoors and upstairs. More banging, more trips outdoors. I know flowers were involved ...
