Holidays
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2013 Resolutions
I woke up this morning to a little voice asking, “Is it January?” We have spent a long while talking up January, and in the last few days January and New Years Eve is all Nora has been hearing about, from story and craft at the library to the concert she danced her way through…
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Winter Solstice + Giveaway Winners!!
Happy Solstice! Nora missed the memo about today being the shortest day and was up bright and early (far before the sun) out of sheer excitement about opening presents. We managed to hold her off for a while with an episode of Caillou on my laptop before having to acknowledge morning and let her at…
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Behavior Modification, Santa and the Elf on the Shelf
in MotherhoodIt’s the time of year where I’m due for at least one blog post about how we’re fumbling our way through winter holiday traditions and figuring out what works for our family. I wasn’t originally planning to write about about Santa today, although he’s been much discussed in our house over the past week or…
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30 Days of Thanks: Tree Lighting
Nora woke up this morning with a cough, so we stuck close to home with the one exception of going into town for the Christmas tree lighting and carols. Not that we would have participated in Black Friday consumer madness anyway, but today I am thankful for a simple day at home and that the…
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Film Friday: Thanksgiving
in Film FridayI’m sneaking in a post this morning, and it’s a Film Friday post! I haven’t made a video for a long time, mostly because I haven’t been shooting a lot of footage because it’s hard to do since I don’t actually have a video camera. Everything I take is recorded with my DSLR or laptop,…
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30 Days of Thanks: Thanksgiving
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and stuffed themselves just full enough with wonderful food. We had a wonderful feast filled with all the usual suspects,minus the turkey, of course, and with a few delicious chef Chris twists. We did our normal holiday division of labor: I bake the pies and rolls the night before, and…
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30 Days of Thanks: Diwali
Way, way back when…actually, even further back to when I was a junior in high school, I thought I was in love with an Indian boy. That relationship is one big complicated story best told over a beer (or three), but the short of it is that, 2.5 years later when the relationship finally untangled…
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A Scarecrow in 30 Minutes or Less
Still need a costume? Here is what I whipped up for Chris this morning:
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Wordless Wednesday: Celebrating Independence…with Dada, too!
A peek into our Nantucket Fourth of July festivities.
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Daffodil Festival
There wasn’t a Saturday Surfing post yesterday because the day was packed full of wonderful Nantucket festivities. The whole town was decked out in yellow and green, and jam-packed full of visitors celebrating spring. Of course, I love any opportunity to dress up Nora,so to the children’s parade we went, where there were lots of…
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Spinning Cotton Tales
This year we decided to try something a little different around Easter time. I wanted to dye eggs, because it’s fun and they’re pretty and I knew Nora would love it. So we did, with natural egg dyes made from annatto seed, curcumin, purple sweet potato and red cabbage. Nora was amazed at the transformation…
