One day, one day soon, I’ll start blogging again for real. Can I just blame “Summer”? Of the past 5 weekends we’ve been away for four of them, including a week long shore trip from which we’ve just returned. Not that I’m complaining. It’s just been busy.
But I love that we go to the same [...]

I get out rarely enough that when I do have plans I start counting down the hours pretty early on. I’m going to a movie tonight with a friend (it starts in just 4 hours, 20 minutes, btw), and am so excited. We’re seeing Julie and Julia. Cooking? Blogging? Meryl? How can it be wrong? [...]

Of Sam’s small repertoire of films he’s allowed to watch, there are two that stand out for me. Both of them are created by Hayao Miyazaki, one of my husband’s all-time favorite writer/director/artists. Of Miyazaki’s vast collection, two are particularly appropriate and wonderful for younger children, and it is these two movies that were the [...]

This is “Yudd.” You may know him as Curious George, but to Robby’s unpracticed vocalizations he is called “Yudd,” or “Yode,” and sometimes “Yudge.”
Yudd is a toy that my husband got sometime in college, a play on a nickname he had on his ultimate frisbee team, I believe, since you’ll see that this George [...]