New England weather, you are too much. A few weeks ago when it was pushing 70 degrees and I was walking home from a day at the playground, I saw crocuses! Those little purple flowers sent me daydreaming of...
February and I are not friends. We're barely on speaking terms. My whole life, February has been the month where I run out of steam and sink down into myself. In February, in the depths of winter, I feel...
On a cold, cloudy, snowy, New England winter day — let's face it, pretty typical here from November through March — there's nothing that sounds better to me than having a roaring fire in the fireplace, the family nice and cozy,...
With the temperatures dropping and the days growing shorter, it's clear that, as Jon Snow said in that foreboding brogue, "Winter is coming." And when facing that (ahem) cold truth, we can either run away like the white walkers...
As I write this, it's 90+ degrees in Boston, which is too hot to do much of anything except turn on the sprinklers and run through them with your kids. Forget about turning on your stove or oven to...
Boston Moms Blog recently shared an article on Facebook that hit home with me. I, too, had a heart-stopping moment with my daughter around water.
It happened on one of the last warm-ish days of last autumn. My dad took my then...
Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring last month, and despite the inches of snow and polar vortex that followed a few days after his forecast, I'm siding with Phil and am very hopeful that spring weather is indeed just around...
It's hard to feel hot when you're freezing.
It doesn't get much grittier than a Boston winter. As a born-and-bred Texan, I admit I have some seriously thin blood. I'm the girl in the parka if it's below 55ºF. But...
I am a horrible Bostonian — I hate winter. I do not want to ski. I do not want to skate on Frog Pond. If it never snowed again, that would be perfectly fine with me. From December to...
Being born and raised in New England (I've never lived anywhere else!), I have experienced some of the brutal winters this area has to offer. Add kids to the mix, and snow storms can be more than a bit of...
Everyone loves fall in New England — the crispness in the air, the crunch of the leaves, the resurgence of leather boots. For me, the best part of autumn is the surplus of foods I enjoy year round — squashes and pumpkins...
I've just started a new job. (Yay!) It's part time, which leaves me a little flexibility to do the daily drop offs and pick ups — part and parcel of modern parenthood — but I'm in the office for about three...
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My Kid Is Not On the Honor Roll — and I...
It's that time of year again. School graduations and parent-teacher conferences and awards ceremonies occur, and suddenly social media is flooded with pictures of...
