Next week, we’re leaving on a grand adventure: a driving trip across the United States. In one month, we plan to see Yellowstone Park; South Dakota’s Black Hills; Chicago; Niagara Falls; Boston with MIT; New York City; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Washington, DC; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; Disney World; New Orleans; Austin, Texas; Roswell, New [...]
For Kelly’s last summer day before she had to officially step into school, I took her to the beach. I let her choose the beach, because while my favorite is the relatively quiet New Brighton Beach, I though Kelly might have her own preferences at this point. And she did. She asked me to take [...]
I don’t like to be a time hog when I take time off for myself, so after already indulging myself in an afternoon of magazine reading, I didn’t think I had time to check out the Zero 1 art festival. But as I was going past the art cars lined up along Plaza de Cesar [...]
On Monday Neil went on a field trip that ran until 6 pm. Kelly was too young to tag along if I were a chaperone, so we had our own field trip and went to the beach. Everyone has a favorite beach. Peter loves the windy overcast beaches on the coast south of Half Moon [...]
Ten energetic children between the ages of 2 and 12; 2 perky indefatigable Mormon moms; the biggest pile of boulders you’ve ever seen, and…me. It made for quite an adventure, even if at times, for me, it was like Fear Factor as hosted by Disney, with a bottomless box of snack chips. Among the other [...]
Neil’s cub scout troop had a family camp out at Sunset Beach on March 8th, and of course we went. Kelly loves camping, and she loves the beach, and combining the two was like a dream come true for her. Neil could hang out with other boys and do boy stuff. Me, I got to [...]
On Saturday day, we went out for another one of our Healthy Trails hikes, this one around the Henry Miller house. Neil, Kelly and I had taken this hike before on a cub scout trip last Spring. But just as then, the ruins were a particularly fun place to run around and play in: I [...]
So what did I do on this wintry weekend? I went to the beach with my family, twice! Beaches are, after all, scenic year round. And most of the many fun things you can do at the beach, such as making sandcastles, looking for seashells, twirling around on your tippy toes and giggling, can be [...]
For me, 2008 has definitely started off with a bang. Just take a look at how my last week has gone: Monday: We all go to the mall to buy Peter new jeans. We return with a couture top and a new car for me. World fails to take notice. Tuesday: It’s 2008! Our family [...]
The Santa Clara County Parks department recently launched a “Healthy Trails” program with a list of trails to hike in the local parks. Since I love taking my children outdoors, I was all over that, and in a lull between working and shredding papers on Sunday afternoon, we all decided to take one of the [...]
