Amber’s Blog
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Powell Ears
I started following a mama blog recently by a mama who is a photographer. She does a fun little thing every Thursday called “You Capture,” where she gives out a topic and encourages people to go out, take pictures for the next week, and then share their pictures the following Thursday. I’ve been taking a…
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Preparing for a (Not) Picky Eater
Thursday is CSA pick-up day and we finally had proof of the existence of summer: a surprisingly heavy bag out of the cooler at Annye’s. So heavy I was impatient to look inside; I couldn’t even wait to get home before untying the knot and rooting through our treasures. In addition to the standard fare…
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Empowerment in Birth
There’s a discussion going on over at the Motherload blog about whether or not there is an ideal way to give birth. Lisa Belkin seems to think an ideal birth is a fiction, and all that matters is a healthy baby and mother. I disagree that there isn’t an ideal, because I think there’s enough…
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All Joy and Lots of Fun
in MotherhoodLast week’s New York Magazine cover article “All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting” was a real downer – in case you couldn’t figure that out by the title – and written by a journalist (and mother), Jennifer Senior, who definitely takes the glass half-empty approach. The article opens with a tale of…
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Report Card
Are you wondering how I’ve been doing at living up to those Housewife Challenges? Well, wonder no more, because it’s report card time! We all know that a goal set with no finish line is one that can easily fall to the wayside. So, to make sure I’m staying on track, I’m going to hold…
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The Tower
Despite the heat wave we’ve been having, I still try to get out for a walk or two every day. The location (and price!) is really what sold us on our house – it’s a walkable distance to so many things, and I’ve been slowly exploring the island, spiraling out like a web from la…
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Happiness Is…
A 4th of July street fair. This has to be the best 4th of July party I have ever seen – but then, like I said, when Nantucket does something, they do it right. Saturday morning, Nora and I headed down to the Unitarian Church for a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and…
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White Sandwich Bread
White Sandwich Bread Recipe Related Post: Happiness Is… Adapted from Williams-Sonoma Bread See more recipes here
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‘Tis The Season
The island is abuzz. The halls have been decked. Chris has been working like mad to feed the weary travelers. It’s tourist season. Since whaling has gone out of fashion (thank goodness), tourism is what keeps the island going fa-la-la-la la-la-la-la. And when Nantucket does something, they do it right. Nearly every house and shop…
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Brant Point
Yesterday, fog sat thick over the island, a viscous reminder of being 30 miles out to sea. It was muggy, but I try to get out of the house each day for a change of scenery, so I loaded up the jogger, strapped Nora in, and set out for town. I felt like I was…
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The Cost of Raising a Child
This week the USDA published its annual report on Expenditures on Children by Families [PDF] and the numbers are shocking – to me at least. It costs an average middle-income American family $222,360 to raise a child from birth to 18. Depending on age of the child, annual expenses ranged from $8,330 to $9,450 for…
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Beach Baby
This week Chris had a rare two days off in a row. Nora and my gift to him for Father’s Day was a whole day of doing whatever he wanted, so Tuesday, he said he wanted to go to the beach. You might expect this to be a post about how we all went to…
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Date Night
Staying at home doesn’t just mean more time with Nora. It also means more time with Chris, which is also an amazing gift. When we still lived in New York and I was working, we were like ships in the night. Chris and I saw each other on Sundays and for about 30 minutes in…
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Keeping House
(A.K.A. Housewife Challenge #2) The house is done. Everything is unpacked and put away, the pictures are hung, flowers are in the window boxes, and it’s clean. Or…it was clean. You see, we don’t have a dishwasher. Correction, we don’t have an electric dishwasher, we have me, the human dishwasher. And if you know me,…
