I've been meaning to take advantage of the Chrysler Museum's extended Wednesday hours for a while. Tonight J. & I were getting ready for dinner, and I turned to him and said, "Hey, want to go see some art?" He was into the idea, so we grabbed the baby (already in her jammies) and drove downtown to do just that. There was one...
A week or so ago, I grabbed a canister of foam stickers at the craft store and I have been semi-regretting it ever since. The stickers have a Noah's Ark theme, and these animal couples seem to be multiplying and being fruitful all over my house. There are at least 50% more now than were in the can when I bought them. I...
I feel like the Pagoda is one of the best-kept secrets in Norfolk, which is strange because it's a big honkin' pagoda right in the middle of downtown. Hard to miss. But nobody seems to have heard about it. It's so well-kept that even I forgot about it until we stumbled upon it last Friday night on our way to dinner, and I...
The past few weeks have ended up being more than a little stressful around these parts. I have been feeling under the weather for a while, J.'s been out of town, and all of a sudden we found ourselves with too many obligations to go around and ended up having to jettison some of them, which never feels good. The past few days...
Every Halloween, my Girl Scout troop would go to the graveyard (right next to our camp! which made for some pretty interesting camping trips) and make gravestone rubbings. It might seem like a weirdly morbid thing to do with a lot of little kids, because of the inevitable conversations that will come up about death and all that. But surprisingly, all of my...
The last time I was at the art store, I checked out the clearance aisle and found that stamp pads were going for $0.30 a piece! So of course I had to buy every single one of them, I can't resist a bargain like that. I didn't know when I was throwing them into our basket exactly what we would do with thirteen...
I can imagine, years from now, your coming back to this high, old, white house. "Home" I shouldn't say because we can't predict who'll live here with a different name. How tall the birches will be then. Will you look up from the road past the ash for light in the study windows upstairs and down? Go climb the black maple...
Today is the first truly cold morning of the year for us and it's hinting deliciously at all sorts of shivery days to come. As soon as I woke up this morning, I knew exactly what was on the agenda for today for me and Baby Anne: socks and sweaters over pajamas and big steamy cups of hot chocolate. And in order to truly...
Anouk and I met up with our Aunt C. today with a very important mission: to score some pumpkins for our front stoops (and maybe some pumpkin-flavored baked goods, too). We consulted with Google and set off...and ended up in a kind of depressing church parking lot pumpkin patch. Waaa-waah. Not exactly the festive seasonal ambience we were looking for. But did we...
