-Spending time with family.  Yesterday we had lunch with David’s family and today we had lunch with my family. I love that we finally live close enough for that to be a fairly typical weekend!
-Taking long bicycle rides! Now that the kids are in school I’ll actually get to go biking more often, [...]

This morning we put Ellie on the bus for her first day of preschool in public school, and Killian for his first day of First Grade.  Both kids were happy and excited!  Sadly, not as excited as I was, I think… I hate to be that mom who looks forward to her kids being in [...]

I told the kids we’d do something special this week since they are going back to school already – so today we all got haircuts, went to Chuck E. Cheese’s (where an adult can loose their mind!), t0 Bubblecake, and then to the kids’ school’s open house.
First, the haircuts! Ellie has been asking for short [...]

The kids start school this Thursday, so last week was our last full week of summer vacation and we spent it in NYC with David.  It was wonderful! During the week we visited: the American Museum of Natural History, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Long Island [...]