The sun’s been peeking through the clouds here in New England… at least enough for swimming lessons in semi-frigid waters.
Ah…
And it was on the way home from “the pool” today that I learned a new word from one of my grandsons.
DIVINGSAUR.
Swimming lessons include a modified/assisted “jump” off the diving board, and Audrey’s 3-year old, Alexander, [...]

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I have a big basket of children’s books.  Some are fairly new, but most of them belonged to my children when they were kids.  I had enrolled them in something called the Scholastic Children’s Choice Book Club, and a new book magically arrived each month through the mail.  These books are hardcover and sturdy.  Yes, [...]

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Touch a what?
Touch a Truck!
Today was the annual Touch a Truck event and fundraiser at our local YMCA.  It features what every kid loves.  Trucks.  Trucks and vehicles of all shapes, all sizes, all ages… that kids get to touch, climb on, sit in, horn blow, wear helmets and head-gear, “steer” and enjoy.  And of [...]

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Of all the world’s oceans and lakes and rivers and steams -
Of all the man-made wave pools and splash parks and private clubs -
There’s just something so sweet and simple and innocent and enduring about a little back yard pool…

(This is my Nana, my Aunt Jean, my Uncle Bob, me and my brother Bill - [...]

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I was reading the wonderful children’s book, Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey, to my grandsons this morning… and it filled me to the brim with a beautiful slice of my own childhood.
Blueberry picking.  And just like in the book, blueberry picking in Maine.  No, I didn’t get all mixed up with  a mama bear [...]

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Dear Kohler,
I am the grandmother of 7 grandsons.
Count ‘em. 7. Andrew is 5. Jake is 4. William is 3. Alexander is 2. Benjamin is 1. Henry is 12 weeks. And Dylan is 6 weeks.
That’s a lotta… how can I say this delicately… pee.
Yesterday is a wonderful example [...]

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Have you ever done this?
I did it yesterday.
And I am still cringing.
Oh… PLEASE make the memory disappear.
Barry and I were at a little farm stand, just having the best ‘ol summer time picking out beautiful ripe tomatoes, sun-touched corn, perfect peppers, luscious squash and nice, firm cucumbers.
Maybe it’s the cucumbers that got me into trouble. [...]

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Barry and I spontaneously took off this past Tuesday and headed to Cape Cod, or, as we New Englanders say, “the Cape.” The day was glorious… warm, breezy, beautiful sun in the big old blue sky.
Our plan was to head all the way to the tip of the Cape, to Provincetown, but a 13-mile [...]

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The good old national pastime. Baseball.
You know, where you root, root, root for the home team?
And eat, eat, eat ’til you’re as big as… well, Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas.

This past Sunday, Jane, her husband Steve, my husband Barry and I went to a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. The day [...]

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What combines fabulous fashion, great fun, and the friendly mingling of shoppers and celebrities?
SUPER SATURDAY… an annual “Designer Garage Sale” sponsored by Donna Karan and InStyle to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund was founded in 1994, and its mission is to fund cancer research into early detection and ultimately a [...]

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