I’m back. Or at least, I’m here for now? If the past year and a half have shown us anything, it’s that we can’t really predict what will happen. I’ve let this blog go for all that time while we’ve
It’s a new year and a new decade* (*okay, not really, but it FEELS like a new decade, doesn’t it?) and I realized I never posted the December meal plan. I’m so sorry, and also, totally fine with this snafu.
Oh, sure, I’m super organized. I meal plan a month at a time, and since I carry my spiral notebook everywhere I go (and spend lots of time waiting around for kids to finish up activities), I generally have a
Proving yet again that I am no rookie mom and meal planner, our schedule has gotten significantly busier for the month of October than it was last month — which I basically predicted was going to happen, because hey, it’s
“Back? That’s it? Not back-to-school, or back to reality, or back to routine? Just back?” Yup. Just…back. We’re back. It’s September, and we’re back to our regularly scheduled program, folks. Which means a lot of things, like routines and rituals
I know so many people out there are already doing the back-to-school thing as we speak, but in New England, summer still has a few weeks to go. Our kids aren’t going back until after Labor Day this year, which
Life is change. It may not always feel like it — sometimes, things get monotonous, and you might think “nothing ever changes around here.” You might feel stuck, even. But the truth is, things are ALWAYS changing around us, and
June is such a weird month. May ends with Memorial Day weekend, and everybody’s suddenly in summer mode. But in New England, summer vacation is still weeks away (and, as my super-pedantic 10-year-old son pointed out, ACTUAL summer isn’t until
May is all endings and beginnings around here. As the kids have grown, it’s evolved into probably the single busiest month of the year, filled with end-of-school concerts and events and family obligations. But it’s also the month that starts
I’ve been thinking about some changes we’ve made lately to the way we plan, shop and eat, and I think the whole thing can best be summed up as discipline. I mentioned not long ago that I was making a