Blondies are my favorite go-to dessert. I bring them when delivering a meal to someone, or when we are invited somewhere for dinner. To be totally decadent, they also make a great base for a brownie sundae. Add vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, and whipped cream and you will have something totally scrumptious and ridiculously…
It seems like only yesterday that we were lining up in Miss Redfern's 4th grade class to be inspected for head lice by the school nurse, Judy Jaynes. I remember Judy's glistening white hair, short and coiffed. Like all of the staff back then, she was smartly dressed in a navy tailored suit with nude…
I never knew life could be this good. I'm in love. I used to walk by you and turn my nose up. You looked and smelled repulsive to me. The thought of going near you was just to much to even consider. I really just wanted you to go away. You turned up in…
Hadley is dying to read. At six, she is mostly there. Yet she sees her older brother and sister curled up with chapter books and she longs to be just like them. Like any learned skill in life, she just needs a bit more time and practice. Gordie met someone from southern Vermont recently who…
Last week marked my one year anniversary of going to Crossfit. Some of my friends know what Crossfit is, but I often get asked what it's all about, and how it's different. I mostly get crazy comments and funny looks as if to ask, "Who would do that?" That is a great question, and I…
Never in a million years did I expect all this crying as a mother. It's often at the grocery store, when I'm alone with all those mothers I talked about from Target last month: http://thesuburbanchronicles.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/target-time/ . I am totally convinced there is a D.J. who sits upstairs at the Market Basket where I shop. I am guessing…