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27 Dec New Year’s Resolutions & Year-End Recap

Posted at 02:40h in Family Time, Feelings, Love, Parenting, Socially responsible, Time, Vegan, Working Mom 0 Comments

I've been doing a year-end recap every year since 2005 in this exact format on ye olde LiveJournal. Here's a slightly edited-for-the-public version of this year's. First, the annual memes: Year in meme: 2016 The method: Copy and paste the first sentence of the first entry of every month this year...

03 Dec The story of our genderbending Elf on the Shelf

Posted at 03:24h in Family Time, Fashion, Feelings, Parenting, Socially responsible, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Our Elf was given to us. It wasn't a trend I was interested in. It's work. But my mom gave it to Henry and we couldn't back out after that. Inevitably, every night we are in bed and then remember the Elf on the Shelf...

30 Nov Little hands

Posted at 03:17h in Art, Family Time, Glens Falls, milestones, Parenting 0 Comments

Today, as has been my tradition for the entirety of Henry's life, I made handprint ornaments with Dolores Thomson of Clay Concepts. We give them to the aunts, uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents every year for Christmas. Danny hands now, too. At this point, they get the gift...

24 Nov Hamburgers

Posted at 03:41h in Art, Family Time, Parenting, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Henry drew a circle, and another circle. That reminded him of a hamburger. So then he drew another hamburger. This one had lettuce sticking out. And then it needed a face and legs. This is my favorite drawing Ever. And did I mention that this was all on...

20 Nov Magical Woodland Tea Party

Posted at 17:13h in Family Time, Glens Falls, Uncategorized, Vegan 0 Comments

World Awareness Children's Museum knocked it out of the park with their Magical Woodland Tea Party yesterday. Fairy decorations greeted you from the roadside all the way in, even to the bathroom. Titania herself (Elizabeth Little Hogan, who co-chaired the event with Sue Knapp) greeted the...

03 Nov About Four.

Posted at 02:19h in Bad stuff, Family, Family Time, Feelings, Generations, Love, Parenting, Two Kids 0 Comments

So I've been trying to get Cory to go in on a third kid with me. He's not feeling it. He has good points. Like, how we're constantly close to the edge (or dangling over it by our fingertips) when it comes to balancing two kids....

16 Sep Frankie Fox

Posted at 05:45h in Photos 0 Comments

So there we are at the Great Escape last weekend and we see Sheldon and Henry's favorite, Frankie Fox. Last year after the morning show she was in, he walked right up to her, and just wanted to spend some time around her, touching her,...