snow To Do List

Posted on February 13, 2010 - Filed Under adventures, kiddo life | 1 Comment

For god’s sake, we just got another ton of snow! We haven’t had this much snow in a decade. But it has given the kids another chance to check off all the snow related items from their lists. These things are all old hat for you Northerners, I’m sure, but they still retain novelty value [...]

wonky weather party

Posted on January 6, 2010 - Filed Under adventures, kiddo life | 1 Comment

Now, I understand that in vast portions of the world, a frozen pond is No Big Deal. But around here, it’s about on par with a solar eclipse or maybe hail falling through a rainbow. (Oh wait, that last one already already happened .) But seriously, our pond has never had even a speck of [...]

om my god it’s freaking snowing!!!!

Posted on December 20, 2009 - Filed Under adventures, kiddo life | Leave a Comment

Those Weather Men & Women are getting really good at their jobs. They told us it was going to start snowing around noon, and darned if it didn’t start snowing right on schedule, huge, fluffy feather flakes, coming down like gangbusters, just as we were driving home from the toy store at our local mall. [...]

in which the kids and i visit Kid Mecca

Posted on November 10, 2009 - Filed Under adventures, kiddo life | 4 Comments

That’s right, we made the trek into the next city to go here [cue holy music]:

Kid Mecca, otherwise known as Toys R Us, in which the aisles of toys extend into infinity, until they collapse into a toy singularity of impossible density, packaging, and expense.

And in which all these miraculous toys are lit with shoddy [...]

happy halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2009 - Filed Under adventures | 1 Comment

I’ve posted before about our crazy-down-the-road neighbors who dude up their house for Halloween every year like nobody’s business. This year is no exception! 2009’s theme is Zombies, particularly Decapitated Zombies who are Carrying Their Own Heads, and, oddly, these are a special subset who have their brains resting right on their shoulders. Apparently carrying [...]

happy equinox!

Posted on September 28, 2009 - Filed Under adventures | 2 Comments

Okay, I know the equinox was last week. But I couldn’t find my camera until today, and it was full of lovely equinox photos, so how could I do an equinox post without it? Well, I couldn’t. But I can now! So look what we did on the First Official Day of Fall….
  
Well, that doesn’t [...]

paperhand puppet intervention

Posted on September 7, 2009 - Filed Under adventures | 5 Comments

Every year the Paperhand Puppet Intervention does a huge show at a nearby outdoor theater. This year was “The Living Sea of Memory.” Live music, fun stories, and huge, gorgeous, amazing puppets.
Look. See what I mean?

This is Tiama and Apsu at the dawn of the world, breathtaking, because the Mother and Father of All Things [...]

late summer walk

Posted on August 13, 2009 - Filed Under adventures | 4 Comments

Walking on our property yesterday, everything is lost in green, but somehow, you can feel that the peak of summer has passed.

The small creek is almost dry—just enough mud that the kids like to muck about in it. It will start filling up with fall rains, soon.
  
We didn’t do a goat walk this time—I’m not [...]

dinosaurs among us

Posted on August 5, 2009 - Filed Under adventures, kiddo life | 1 Comment

The other day we were doing our hanging out thang when SUDDENLY the water in our water glasses started doing this mysterious shimmy that could only mean One Thing.

HOLY CRAP! Dinosaurs stalking us through the forest!
But no worries, after all their recent training in zombie killing, Sophie and Luc were totally up to the task.

Can [...]

in which we go to the zoo and have a marvelous time

Posted on July 22, 2009 - Filed Under adventures, kiddo life | 1 Comment

What? You’ve never been to the North Carolina Zoo? You should go! It’s a terrific zoo. I never get that awful feeling I’ve gotten at some other zoos, that feeling of looking at bored, unhappy critters in captivity. The NC Zoo animals all have these terrific, huge, natural habitats and are often busy doing activities [...]