Adventures in Babysitting My Own Kids, 24 hours a day, forever
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
In researching Halloween costume ideas from the kind commenters on my earlier post, I was thinking about Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and all those wild hats and discovered (what many of you must already know) that there is really something called the Royal Ascot races! And they still hold them (since 1711). And [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
I’m singing the “I don’t know what to be for Halloween” blues right now. I’ve got the kids figured out, and Colin has been working on his very creative and unusual costume for months now. I, however, have no idea what to be. Halloween used to be in my top three holidays (behind Christmas and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2007
Happy Halloween everyone! Have a safe, festive, and fun holiday. I hope you all get lots of candy if you go trick-or-treating and that you enjoy wearing costumes. This year I asked Degen if he wanted to be a dog, a cat, or Bob the Builder (all costumes I thought I could manage). He chose [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2007
I like Halloween because we get to dress up in unusual costumes and eat with abandon the sweets that will soon make our bodies vulnerable to the imminent flu season. I like it because we get to see our neighbors, even if we don't recognize them through their costumes. I like it because it's another [...]
Posted in Young Women on Apr 24th, 2007
In a couple of weeks I'll be teaching a combined Young Women lesson on family traditions, so I thought it would be useful to list some of my favorite family traditions (some of my parents' and some of the traditions Colin and I have, too). Having a Passover Seder every year Easter baskets Christmas: cinnamon [...]