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Best Birthday Gift?
Yeah, she’s a funny girl. Those, in fact, are Wasabi peas. Truly, she loved all her gifts, safari clothes, the building toy Camille picked out for her, but the best was saved for last. Her own Nintendo DS. Yes, they snuck the Wii into the house and now we are officially a modern family. Here’s…
Happy Birthday Chloe!
Chloe is six today! Camille is planning to bake a cake for her sister later today. Chloe is still undecided about what she wants for her special dinner…I suspect it is food from one of her two favorite restaurants — Panahar or Harmony.
Taddy the Tadpole
Yesterday, I went out to look at the pond and notices that it was a quite active habitat. I crossed my fingers, hoping that what I saw in it was a colony of tadpoles. We have a frog that found our pond and talks to the frog next door, so it was a distinct possibility…
New Cookbook Idea
well, maybe it is already out there. Please tell me. In general, I like cooking. I’m not very experienced, so things don’t always turn out well and it takes me longer that I’d like to cook many things. The girls very often don’t like what I make, because they are very particular (Chloe likes only…
Black Magic Lunch
Barbara and Phil brought the girls a cookbook from their library sale. Last night, Camille planned a menu and shopping list based on the recipes in The Little Witch’s Black Magic Cookbook by Linda Glovach. Phil took the girls to the store this morning for all the necessary ingredients, then they went to work preparing…
Memorial Day Parade
Today was our big Pine Lake Memorial Day Parade/Cookout/Opening of the Lake/Ice Cream Social! It was the first that we’ve ever been to, and it was exactly as I imagined. Everyone came together for a great day, but we still managed to do it in Pine Lake style, with everyone choosing their own parade route….
This is The Coolest Thing
that I have seen in a long time!! The Westhampton (MA) library had a fundraiser that must be the best fundraiser ever. We all know about the Chicago Cow Parade and all the others like the Dawgs Parade in Athens. But here’s a great small town alternative! Dress up those pink flamingos and then auction…
Happy Mothers’ Day!
I was five days late for Cinco de Mayo, so one day late for Mothers’ Day isn’t so bad, right? My mom comes to stay with us all the time, so I wanted my mothers’ day gift to her (and my mothers’ day gift to myself – I realize it is something for MY house)…
Diez de Mayo
I guess we are a few days late for the big “Cinco de Mayo” celebration. We remembered the holiday while we were on the train home…the chips and salsa just didn’t cut it. Today Camille worked on researching food, crafts and more to help us, then we headed to Kat’s Happy Place, along with Lowe’s…
Baseball Season
Well honestly, I wouldn’t know except that Robbie Schaefer (XMKids) just announced all the games that XM is covering tonight (all of them I guess). Between our new favorite CD Pop Fly and today’s rainy morning of Wii Sports, Chloe decided that she really wanted “baseball lessons”. I gave her the next best thing; we…
Things Fall Apart
I’m working on very little sleep this week. And today it showed. I took Chloe to gymnastics and was patting myself on the back about how I was still getting the girls where they needed to go even with the major deadline and lots of stress. When I got there, I noticed it was more…
Locally Grown
Today I took a quick break from my work to head over to The Funny Farm to pick up some fresh from the local ground carrots, lettuce and herbs. And fresh flowers from our yard, even though I try to kill this particular plant whenever I see it: And then our kitty, Gazoo, who showed…
She’s Got Our Genes
Our family is one of computer freaks. My folks met at IBM in the 60s. I have a doctorate in Computational and Applied Mathematics and work for a software company. Rob is an engineer that uses computers excessively in his research. Rob’s brother is also a computer guru, with a doctorate comparable to mine and…
I’m Tired
I’ve been working for over 16 hours now, and I don’t see the end. Hopefully everything will be in place for the deadline of Friday. Kat, I’m not ignoring the meme, I just couldn’t think about anything else today. My brain is fried. I hope that I won’t get tons of edits tomorrow and can…
A Day in the Garden
I should have taken a before picture, as the after is much less impressive without knowing what the before looked like. Why is it that I have a release due during the most fabulous week of the year? It is so gorgeous outside, but I have to be working overtime this and next week. Ugh.
Tis the Season
At Target today, we found lots of gardening stuff in the dollar section. The girls picked out some “all-in-one” planting kits, and I picked out some things myself. This afternoon, we worked on planting our flowers, herbs, fruits and veggies (well, I guess tomatoes are technically fruits). How will they do? Only time will tell.
Gaming Girl
Chloe is our games nut. She loves to play games. Computer games, board games, card games, you name it. At home show loves playing Sorry!, Zeus on the Loose, Kitty Korner and more. Today at the cabin, she pulled out Triominos, and we had a great game outside on the deck.
Good Finds
The girls and I spent a few hours yesterday trying to find some baskets to store in the bottom of the bookshelf in the living room. We should have gone straight to the source of the bookshelf, IKEA. After Camille’s testing today, we headed there for lunch and some light shopping. Bingo. The baskets were…