Fall is my favorite. My absolute favorite. And today was a beautiful sunny day full of pumpkins and apples and golden leaves. We have apples, so many apples! We have pies to bake and pumpkins to carve. We have seeds to toast and seeds to plant (not pumpkins, but garlic).
And I just finished such a [...]

Sometimes I’m so glad I bring the camera, even if it’s just a regular trip to the playground.

Today was the first day of a new year at school for Sam, as well as Robby’s first day of school ever. Here’s the obligatory cute first day photo:

And here’s Robby, at home less than a few hours later, after sobbing in my arms for the duration of his morning at school.

I wasn’t necessarily expecting [...]

So for the past few days I’ve been feeling vaguely ill in the mornings and ultimately decided it was somehow linked to the coffee I was drinking. Perhaps it was too strong, or I’d just started drinking too much. That was quite possible, as my regular daily cup has certainly multiplied over the course of [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes cookies are the only possible answer.

I think we all feel a little better now.

I would say that today was almost the opposite of what I’d expected. When faced with the fact that Sam would be losing two of his teeth, I was most concerned with how he would handle the realization that there was a huge space in his mouth - that his teeth were actually gone, as [...]