I’ve realized something over the past several years of parenting school-aged kids: July is really the only true month of summer. June doesn’t count, because they’re still in school for at least half of it. And August doesn’t count, because
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It’s a cliche, but life does have its ups and downs, doesn’t it? Since last month’s meal plan was posted, we’ve had some great ups: The kids’ school musical! L. accepting a big scholarship for summer camp! Great times with
It’s here! It’s finally here! After one of the longest, most dramatic winters in recent memory (seriously, April? Nor’easters?), we have finally achieved something that sort of resembles Spring. There’s verifiable sunshine, temperatures have stayed warm enough for a long
Here it is again: The Spring Gauntlet. Parents know what I’m talking about. It’s that time of year when you’re finally breathing after the holidays and the gloom and doom of winter and all of that mess….and just as the
Things that are predictable about March around here: There will be a random spate of busy weekends There will be a birthday (okay, a dual birthday — mine and P.’s) There will be a Saint Patrick’s Day dinner with my
I know it’s cheesy to say that this month’s meal plan is all about love — how VALENTINE’S DAY, how LAME. But I don’t really mean it as an homage to the non-holiday that is February 14th. The thing is,
So here’s a new term: “Bomb Cyclone.” It’s a thing, and it’s supposed to impact something like 41 million Americans starting tomorrow….including we New Englanders. Currently, the weather forecasters are estimating that our city here in RI will get as
Thanksgiving is four days away and I just spent fifteen minutes hacking my turkey in half. I promise I have not gone completely mad. (OK, maybe I can’t confidently promise that, but if I have, the turkey has nothing to
This month, even more than in past years, I’ve got to stay one step ahead of myself. Or more. Because the next few weeks are…well, yikes. I’ve got a big concert to sing with my choral group, an unexpected business
With a dinner plan that doesn’t necessarily lend itself effortlessly to quick packing of leftovers for school lunches, this week is more about reinvention of ingredients than we’ve done recently. To come up with the lunch menus, I had to