Win Family Tickets to Disney on Ice in Boston!
Update: Congratulations to Kristy, comment #29 as selected by Random.org! She is the winner of 4 tickets to opening night of Disney on Ice presents Dare to Dream in Boston! Thank you to all for...
View ArticleSurgery at Children’s Hospital Boston
One place in New England that I never really had any desire to explore is Children’s Hospital Boston. Although I had heard wonderful things about it, you just never want to need to see the inside of a...
View ArticleDisney on Ice Review: Dare to Dream
Today marked the first day of February vacation for kids all over New England. (Yeah, that’s right. Fun for kids and a little extra stress for working parents with no nearby relatives who have to...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon De-stressing on Cape Ann
I can’t lie. The convergence of many fantastic things happening in your professional life all at once can lead to some serious stress. Lately, it seems like every email in my inbox is from someone...
View ArticleSocial Creatures at the New England Aquarium
Yesterday the New England Aquarium tweeted at me: @bostonblogmom Have any pics with Myrtle the #turtle? Looking to fill her fb page with new & old shots like this http://goo.gl/KGO3X I was...
View ArticleMid-SCBWI Conference Identity Crisis (and Mommy Guilt)
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Springfield, Massachusetts after my second day at the New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference. And I’m trying desperately not...
View ArticleNantucket Weekend Getaway
After two years of living in New England, I had no clue what Nantucket was all about until this past weekend. The only references to the island I heard as a kid growing up in St. Louis all started like...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Sunrise on Mt. Cadillac, Acadia National Park
On Labor Day, when the rest of America was sleeping in late, my family got up earlier than we ever have before (other than to catch a plane). Then we drove to the top of a mountain…in the dark. When we...
View ArticleAdventures in Bar Harbor and Acadia
Not long ago, I wrote about watching the sunrise from Mt. Cadillac in Acadia National Park in Maine. When I did, I promised to write more soon about Bar Harbor (the picture perfect town next to the...
View ArticleThoughts of a Mom Stranded by Hurricane Sandy
By now, everyone in the U.S. has this image etched into their memory. It’s the perfect storm on steroids…the horrific Hurricane Sandy. Because of this “Frankenstorm,” I am stuck in St. Louis. Kyle and...
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