The Arts Broad City season 1. Reading Summer House with Swimming Pool, Her, and The Girl on the Train.  Seeing the new Annie with Anouk and her friends (and loving it).  Listening to Paul Thomkins's comedy album Freak Wharf.  Friends is on Netflix!  Listening to a lot of the Mountain Goats (thanks Dave for reminding me) Food Detroit-style pizza from Union Brothers Chelsea Bake...

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February 12 this year featured some of my favorite things in the world: food, friends, and snow!! Behold. 10:00 AM: Early playdate with M. and B. The girls make Valentine picture frames, so cute, and then the girls make "dessert" for the dog. 12:30 PM: We make our sesame peanut butter noodles for lunch (from this recipe). It's our fave! 3:00 PM: Working on...

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Valentines Day falls on a Saturday this year, which to me means: you go out for delicious breakfast/pastries/brunch on Valentines morning. If you are looking for a kid-friendly destination that fulfills this requirement, allow me to suggest O'DoodleDoo's Donuts, a sweet little retro roadside shop in Suffolk that offers some gorgeously fluffy and delicious cake donuts in creative flavor combinations. James, Anne, and...

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Anouk originally picked her own valentines this year -- some paint-with-water ones we found at Walgreens. But sadly, when we got home and tried one out, we discovered those store-bought valentines were kind of a bust. The paint didn't paint, the colors ran, the paper ripped as soon as it got wet. But A. was committed to the paint-with-water concept so it seemed...

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Anouk inherited this hand-me-down blue corduroy shirt from my friend Molly's son, Z. My kid usually likes lots of glitz and glamour and pink, but I thought this shirt was innocuous enough that it might slip by without comment. No such luck. As soon as A. pulled it out of the pile of clothes: "Mom...this is for a BOY." The pom-pom idea was...

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We've been reviewing a lot of places to eat lately because...we've been discovering a lot of great places to eat lately! Our latest find is The Bakehouse at Chelsea, down in Norfolk's West Ghent, where you can get delectable pastries, wood-fired European hearth breads, and flatbread pizzas. Not only do they use organic flour, but the folks at the Bakehouse also make a...

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