Ginger Gets a Bike!
For Father’s Day, we chose to celebrate with a time-honored father-child ritual…learning to ride a bicycle. Specifically, Ginger learned to ride a bicycle. Now, Ginger is eleven – a bit older than most children are when they first learn to ride, but her age, along with the balance and coordination she gained in activities like ice skating and dance, […]
Birthdays and Grandmothers
My birthday is this week and birthdays always get me thinking about family. This year, my grandma Ruth has been particularly on my mind. I’m not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she was the one who first bought me a bakery-made birthday cake. That was huge for me. Frosting roses […]
Cape Cod Side Tables
I was out tag sale-ing again this weekend. I have a plan to furnish our living room in 1950’s Colonial Revival furniture and I’m hoping to find all of it second hand. This is all to be blamed on a blog called Retro Renovation which I’ve been spending a great deal of time on lately. It’s filled […]
A Luging Story
The Winter Olympics always remind me of the time CPT America and I went luging. We did this years and years ago. Before we had children. Before the term “mom jeans” had been invented. Before Germany had switched from the Deutsche Mark to the Euro. It was a long time ago. We’d signed up for […]
