I never went to camp. We dropped off my first born at sleepaway camp for the first time yesterday (just look at those views!!!). I was actually not very supportive of this venture but played along as mothers so often do. I knew in my head that it would be good for him. I knew … [Read more...] about Camped Out
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Road Trippin’
When I was little I pined for a simulated wood paneled station wagon, the kind with the rear facing seat in the very back. I was certain that dream mobile would have made our hellish family road trips more bearable. I looked enviously at all the wood paneled station wagons that … [Read more...] about Road Trippin’
Just Waving – Wordless Wednesday
A List of Our Summer Adventures
Summer break is upon us. I look forward to this with visions of hammock lying and puddle jumping. I play scenes in my head of running through bucolic fields and giggling in mounds of dirt. We actually do not have a hammock. Whenever there are puddles there’s lightning. I hate … [Read more...] about A List of Our Summer Adventures
Remembering the Sun – Wordless Wednesday
San Juan Serendipity – 5:00 Fridays TM
I'm not a rum girl. Never have been. I'm more a gin girl, actually. Somehow gin and the tropics don't mix, so on a recent trip to Puerto Rico I opted do as in Rome, so to speak. I mean really, I realize Rome is not Puerto Rico. I'm speaking figuratively here. On a jaunt to Old … [Read more...] about San Juan Serendipity – 5:00 Fridays TM