School House Rehab
Trying to leave our little slice of America better than we found it!5 Reasons I Rushed You Off the Phone (Week from Hell)
August 28, 2015
This week has been a little bit nuts for many reasons. Matt’s softball leagues are finishing up so with playoffs and rescheduled rain-outs, he spends a few nights out each week leaving me to handle The Bear on my own. After being with him all day, of course. Oy. We love catching the weekend games when we can, though. Harrison loves watching his daddy play and I love the way his little fingers curl around the chain link fence calling “Da-Da, Gul!
Tractor Spotting
August 11, 2015
Yesterday, our town’s DPW was out and about mowing some of the roadsides that get neglected. Read: Not our side of the road. They use a tractor with a mowing attachment to get ‘er done so you know that it got the attention of one truck-loving toddler I know… Harrison kept pointing at it as we moved from window to window and eventually, it moved out of sight. Imagine our surprise when we went out to get the mail and found the tractor sidelined.
Boo, Vandalism.
August 9, 2015
Vandalism sucks. It just does. When it happens to someone you know, it really sucks. When it happens to you and you have an innocent sleeping child 100 yards from the act, it really, really sucks and it’s making me see red all over. Apparently a few local kids (with rocks for brains, assuredly) like to go around town playing “Mailbox Baseball” where they hang out of cars and smash mailboxes with baseball bats.
Pal Packs
August 1, 2015
It may be barely August but I wanted to thank LLBean for officially kicking off my Christmas shopping with their RIDICULOUS “Bean’s Pal Packs.” Super ridiculous. I was in the Danbury, CT store earlier today and I still can’t get over this… I’m not sure if they’re aware or not (I’m going to go with not) that Matt and I call Harrison “Harr Bear” but it’s like this was made for him.
Watermelon Delight
July 30, 2015
Harrison has been digging watermelon lately and what’s not to love? Sweet, packed with water (shocker!) and easy to eat. Sure, it’s a bit messy and sticky, but I think he prefers it that way. Even if he goes for the rind first. Eating it is defintely a summertime rite of passage and hot, humid days spent wandering the driveway in a diaper are more fun with a slice in hand.
Baby Bird Love
June 28, 2015
One of my very first posts way back in the day was about how I was a “casual bird glancer.” More on that here. Basically, I received a bird feeder and just like that, I became sort of obsessed. I loved watching them come and go and I loved seeing the variety of birds that passed through my yard. I have to find that feeder and get it back up because I think Harrison would like to watch them, too.
A Letter To My Baby (15 Months)
June 19, 2015
Dearest Harr Bear, It’s been three months since your last letter. Although the first twelve months went by at a(n) (unusually) reasonable pace for your old Mama, the last three months have not. It feels like you’re positively rocketing into toddler-dom but that’s okay. We’re having the time of our lives and soaking it all in. I can’t believe how you’ve changed. You took your first few steps back in early May but never got the hang of it because you (probably) figured that your fastest mode of travel was still on all fours.
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush (??)
June 17, 2015
We have this tree in the yard and it has tons of berries on it. I’m thinking they’re mulberries, which are supposedly great in pies or pancakes but I don’t want to die if they’re actually poisonous, so there’s that. Remember Foxface in the Hunger Games? Yeah, I want to avoid that. What do you think? The picture above is some of thef ripe “harvest.” The following pictures are of the tree itself.
Father's Day Gift Guide 2015
June 8, 2015
We’re now a week into June and with that comes all the craziness of the end of the school year. If you have school-age children, I hope you’re making it through this crazy month. June is the month of “Dads and Grads,” and for the first time in a while, I don’t have to shop for a “Grad.” I am, however, fortunate enough to have an awesome Dad and an incredible Baby Daddy for whom to shop so I thought I’d share some of my ideas for Father’s Day.
State of the Garden (Mid-May 2015)
May 13, 2015
I am way past due for sharing my buds and blooms this year but here are a few things I’m enjoying in the garden of late. Matt gifted me a couple of gorgeous hanging planters for the front porch…I got to pick them out. The “mini petunias” are gorgeous when illuminated by the early morning sunshine. I’m not sure what I did to the group of Irises that flank our well, but they look like they’re on steroids.