my journey, destination unknown
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)…
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…
The Kids Music Planet Podcast has announced a “Mega CD Giveaway.” Hosts Lisa and Monty Harper will be giving away 50 different children’s music cds to one lucky listener! The prize package includes many titles that have been reviewed in the podcast, from artists such as Charity & the JAMband, Katherine Dines, Pam Donkin, Erin…
I had Camille take some video of Uncle Rock, and, unfortunately, it did not come out. But Sienna, Persephone’s mom and author of Hilltown Families (a fantastic, informative website), caught it…
Today after girl scouts, we drove about five minutes to downtown Atlanta. I don’t think I have been down to Centennial Park since before the aquarium was built! There are museum, playgrounds, outdoor concerts and more going on down there. Pretty neat space! The playground was tons of fun, but the girls started to get…
The girls were not up for any ambitious sightseeing after we checked out of our hotel and headed to Manhattan. We took the subway to Times Square. Camille had in mind the chocolate stores. There were 50 police cars there; from what I gathered they were filming the movie “The Taking of the Pelham 123”….
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From Coney Island, we took the train back up to Park Slope to see Mr. Ray and Princess Katie and Racer Steve in concert. It was our first time seeing Mr. Ray, and he put on a great show! Then Princes Katie and Racer Steve came out. As she came out, she spotted Chloe and…
This morning, the girls and I walked over to the F train and rode it all the way to the end at Coney Island. Were they surprised that you could take the train to the beach! how cool is that! We walked over to the boardwalk, but almost nothing was open. Around noon, all the…
Here she is on stage with Ernie and Neal.
After our busy morning, we took a short break, then headed across the street from the hotel to head to our main event, STINK, the second annual gathering of kindie rockers in Brooklyn. (The first annual gathering last year was in the same place and very fun, although crowded.) It was tons of fun to…
Could there be any doubt? We headed out early and got on the F train to Union Square. We quickly found a deli and grabbed some bagels and coffee (milk for the girls). We sat at a table in Union Square to eat, then walked through the wonderful farmer’s market that was going on there….
the train didn’t seem to have wireless, so I was off-line for over 24 hours for the first time in quite a while, I think. We got into Penn Station around 2pm, hopped on the uptown train (after fighting with the machine that would not sell me three subway cards), and got to the Museum…
To NYC
My friend Kat over at Sunshine and Lemonade posted a list of thriteen places she’d like to go. My thirteen is a little different from hers. I’d say that her lists includes quite a few places that I’d like to take my kids (Colonial Williamsburg, Yellowstone), but only one or two places that I have…
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…
Last week while I was under a deadline, Kat at Sunshine and Lemonade tagged me for a meme. My first. So…here are the rules:1. Link back to the person who tagged you. (Check)2. Post these rules on your blog. (Check)3. Share six unimportant things about yourself4. Tag six random people at the end of your…
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…
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…
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…