Nantucket
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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,…
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Cherry Upside-Down Cake
Cherry Upside-Down Cake Recipe Related post: Dada’s Day Off Adapted from Bon Appetit June 2008 See more recipes here
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Dada’s Day Off
It started with blueberries. Which isn’t the worst way to start a morning, but we won’t be adding them to Nora’s list of favorite food anytime soon. Blueberry pancakes, though? Well, that’s another story. What can I say, the girl likes her carbs – enough to warrant one in each hand. But, who can blame…
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Our Footprint
Yesterday was dreary. It was gray, rainy, and in the 50’s. Not to mention, the day was long – it started very early – because someone decided that it was playtime at 6 am. And, worst yet, we did a lot of driving yesterday: to the recycling center and landfill, back home, to Annye’s Whole…
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Housewife Challenge #1
Get the grocery bill under budget. There are two major grocery stores on the island: the Grand Union in town and a Stop & Shop. We go to the Stop & Shop, which off-island would not be my first choice of grocery stores, but it has a larger selection and larger isles (which are important…
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More Than Sand
One of my new favorite places to walk is an unexpected park just a few blocks from our house. On the map, it’s called Mill Hill Park and doesn’t look to be all that special – it even has roads running through it. Well, Chris and I decided to check it out anyway to give…
