Category: <span>Kids and Treasures</span>

I grew wise to the Santa lie when I became suspicious of the bar codes slapped on Santa’s gifts.  I mean, if the dude was really sitting up in the frigid…

Kids and Treasures

It doesn’t look like November outside of my window.  Green leaves are holding sunlight like scoops of lemon sorbet.  Russet leaves and bare twigs are bisecting the blue sky into…

Kids and Treasures

    Is there anything better than tried and true parent favorites? We are the ultimate test kitchens, playground cops, soccer refs, school principals, and diaper services all rolled into…

Kids and Treasures

“Simplify, simplify, simplify,” penned the great Ralph Waldo Emerson in Walden.  It’s taken me four years of re-reading his book to get the irony behind that phrase:  If living what…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

Little Friend has officially discovered photographs.  She alternately carries around and loses a wallet print of Big Friend and I mugging for the camera at our wedding.  She screeches “Daaaa”…

Kids and Treasures

{Today’s post is the first in a two-part series.  I’ve recently become a veritable card-carrying member of the Real Food revolution—think local, farm fresh foods prepared in traditional methods—and want…

Kids and Treasures Wanderings and Travel