#PuebloChic

During the first weekend of October, I set-out on a highly anticipated girls weekend in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  After almost a year of planning, the reunion of my high school besties has finally arrived. It begins early on a Thursday morning.  It’s a fitful night’s sleep.  I wake in…

Continue reading

Hay Maze Haze

Yesterday we set out on our annual October pumpkin patch expedition.  Over my weekend in Santa Fe, which I’ll write more about later, I gathered a few recommendations from some trusted resources. We decided to stop in Davenport for breakfast.  I have been a lifelong devotee of the former Davenport…

Continue reading

Hemophobia

The very next Wednesday, after I had written about our magical walk to the first day of school, Nate and Jake and I set-off to kindergarten. About five minutes in, this is what happened: I think you could hear him yelling from five blocks away.  I’m not really sure how…

Continue reading

Taco Tuesday

A few weeks ago James decided to declare a weekly routine he aptly named Taco Tuesday.  He was excited about it, so I was excited about it. It seemed to also coincide with the discovery of a miraculous new product brought to us by “Tortilla Land.”  I’m told these ingenious…

Continue reading

Nakezilla Returns

Our little Nate is going through a “phase.”  He has generally been known as the agreeable one.  The generous one.  The child quick to reason, to apologize, to accept “no” as an acceptable answer and to keep on going.  If we had one remotely “flexible” child, it was Nate. But…

Continue reading

Fast Poke

As some people know, I grew up in the boondocks, the mountains, what we affectionately called “BFE” when out of adult earshot.  School buses and big indoor schools with stone steps and cafeterias were the providence of movies and Beverly Hills 90210.  Walking to school?  Something people did in the…

Continue reading

Infestation

So we read the preschool outbreak notice, gather up our possibly infested trio of puppies, and take the boys home. We go about our usual business, but I feel itchy.  Despite the fact that I’m sure there is some sort of gestation period, for a week I find my scalp…

Continue reading

Pedalear hacia atrás

At 5pm the day before school starts, they post the class lists in the front window of the office. I still remember my days at Happy Valley.  The excitement of going by the school to look at the class list to find out your teacher and classmates.  I remember seeing…

Continue reading

The Big Time

I wrote this blog back on the first day of school.  And then I was caught up in a Kindergarten tornado and got hit in the head… unrelated but true.  So I have some catching-up to do on my catching-up.  What else is new? Wednesday, August 13, 2014  This is…

Continue reading