Legend of the Christmas Spider

Legend of the Christmas Spider

  Holiday traditions are one of my favorite things about this time of year. When I spent my 1st Christmas with Mike it was interesting to learn about his family traditions. One favorite tradition I learned from him was the Legend of the Christmas Spider....

1st Emergency Room Visit

Note: Everyone is fine and well! Kids are prone to accidents, it’s true, and something we learn very on is they are more resilient than we think.  Until you have to take that 1st trip to the emergency room. Our story begins with Eleanor and Camden sitting...

Halloween 2014 Recap

Halloween is such a fun holiday for us.  We all love to be a part of the fun and what’s better our little town, Maplewood, goes all out. The main street becomes a huge area for kids and families to trick or treat and show off all their costumes. ...

Celebrate Fall at Reeves-Reed Arboretum

  We attended a Fall Fest at Reeves-Reed Arboretum over the weekend and got to see the goats hard at work eating all the wildflowers and overgrown vines in “The Bowl”.  They were getting the Arboretum ready for winter in a natural and helpful...

Apple Picking 2014

We’ve created a tradition with some of our friends from Brooklyn by going apple picking every fall.  This year we were missing a few members but we had so much fun riding tractors, picking apples and spending time together. We feel lucky to have these...

We can’t always be perfect #Parentfail

Today was Eleanor’s 1st day of school. We’ve been talking to her for a while about going to school and she’s been both nervous, and excited about the 1st day. As for me I thought I had everything I needed and was all set.  Then today I went to...