Nov 28
Williamsburg is a phenomenal place for people who enjoy early United States history because Jamestown and Yorktown are within 20 miles of one another (and Colonial Williamsburg). As far as Jamestown goes, there’s Historic Jamestowne, for which Preservation Virginia and the National Park Service share responsibility, and the Jamestown Settlement. The former is the original …
Nov 28
We spent Thanksgiving week in Williamsburg, VA, which was awesome. I’ve really enjoyed our quiet vacations during Thanksgiving week. I’m not saying we always go someplace or that we always will, just that it’s a nice time to go. I love Thanksgiving food, but it’s not a lot of fun to make all that food …
Nov 03
There are a couple “farms” near to us, which is in quotes because they say farms in the name, but I’m not entirely sure that that’s not just pretend at this point. The one closest to us, Cox Farms, is kind of kitschy, but constantly crowded now that the “festival” bit is open to the …
Oct 12
James had a birthday! To celebrate, I made two of his favorite things: eggplant Parmesan and German chocolate cake, though the latter was in the form of cupcakes. I also made some chicken Parmesan for Evie and me because eggplant is gross. James spent the morning at work, then the afternoon at Mazda, getting an …
Oct 07
Over Columbus Day Weekend, we celebrated the mass murder of Native Americans by going to the Zoo, to read about the mass murder of just a fraction of the species impacted. (Too much? Tough beans; it’s been a long couple of weeks.) I’ve never been a fan of zoos, but since the mission and execution …
Oct 07
There are a lot of memorials in DC, not sure if anyone knows this, but there are. So last weekend (22 September), our DC trip consisted of the Smithsonian Castle, which is mostly the Visitor’s Center for the Institution, but it also has snippets of exhibits at many of the different museums, an exhibit on …
Sep 21
Yay! Pictures of our house! Just the thing everyone has been waiting for, right? 🙂 Well, they can’t all be winners. But, to make it more interesting, they’re of the kids’ areas, which are way more fun anyway. Evie and Ben have their own rooms, though, eventually, we’re not averse to them sharing. But we …
Sep 14
There’s nothing like being super busy to make one budget one’s time and account for every single minute. Add to that a propensity to avoid reading for school (look, I love reading what I want to read, not what I’m told to read), et voila! A new goal: 1 new post every Friday. We’ll see …
Aug 16
We’ve finally moved into the house. Well, we moved in about three weeks ago, but I finally feel like we’re almost done with everything. There’s still a handful of things to do, but they’re little things, like hanging pictures/curtains or maintaining the yard (what little of it there is). We drove most of the way …
May 21
These handful of posts in the April-May time frame are all going to be out of order. I don’t know why, but there it is. At the end of April, beginning of May, we went to Cape Cod. We didn’t take a lot of pictures; it’s not that we didn’t do a lot, we just …