The big kids have gone back to school (all of my parent friends of school-aged kids were either bleary eyed and sentimental or joyously relieved in the past few days, depending on their kids' ages), but for us mamas of littles, there's still a few extra weeks of summer left before us, still a few weeks left to cram in some summer reading...
After something like ten straight afternoons of thunderstorms, Baby A. and I have both been suffering from bad cases of cabin fever. Today we finally couldn't stand it anymore, all of our usual afternoon activities had worn pretty thin (Not another crayon!) So we decided to brave the rain and headed out to the Pretlow Library in Ocean View in hopes of finding...
We take brunch very seriously in our family and a lot of discussion goes into each week's choice. For this past week's rainy Sunday, we decided that the Get Fresh Cafe at the Five Points Community Market would be just right. Get Fresh, like the name implies, serves fresh local produce sourced right from the market (you can get breakfast from 9-1 and...
Our friend Angela has a knack for finding the most offbeat, most totally amazing things to do in the area (if she had a blog, it would definitely be one to read!) She was the one who told us about the Nansemond Indian Tribe Pow Wow this weekend; on Saturday, James, Baby A. and I drove out to the Lone Star Lakes Lodge...
Another reason I love going to the Virginia Garden Organic Grocery is that sometimes on the way there, I'll take a wrong turn... And then see a sign that says "Sandbridge" with an arrow... And then say, "Oh, hell," forget about veggies, and follow it. That's how Anouk and I ended up at Sandbridge beach a couple of weeks ago, completely unprepared, with...
You know you've got a good thing going when running out for groceries feels like a bonafide outing. Anouk and I love going to the Virginia Garden Organic Grocery (at the Virginia Beach Farmer's Market). Here are a few reasons why: While there are many food vendors with local and naturally grown produce at the VB Farmer's Market, there's also a lot of...
We're going out of town this weekend, so today is a flurry of packing and last-minute chores. But Anouk and I did take the time to make some quick Friday fruit necklaces (as seen on the Artful Parent) for our snack. We used (unflavored) dental floss and embroidery needle to string Trader Joe's frozen berries, some grapes, and a cut-up apple (we also...
I think Anouk and I found a new favorite place today. It just happens to be the Hands on for Kids Gallery at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, a veritable Aladdin's Cave of creativity featuring (among other things) a chalkboard wall, light table, bins of blocks and Legos, and an art station stocked with everything from yarn to colored pencils to crayons, scissors,...
Today it's wet outside, and also pretty hot, and we've already had one very public, very awful diaper blowout at the library about one minute after playgroup started that involved not only a diaper change but a change of clothes for me and Anouk both. So basically: today is turning out to be the kind of day where you just cut your losses...
Here is the thing about butterflies: sometimes I forget they are bugs and then one flies into my hair and I remember. But we have a butterfly bush in our backyard and Baby Anne loves to sit on the deck and watch them flitting around, and so today I sucked it up and took her to the butterfly house at the Norfolk Botanical...
