School lunch. Those two words are enough to make some parents shudder. I was among the gaggles of parents who dreaded the chore with a passion....

Summer Camp Review

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Back in February I attended the Kids VT Camp & School Fair.  My son Aden was turning 5 in April and my husband and...
If you have young children that are school age, you are beginning to hear rumblings around this time of year about the 100th day...
Oooh, that’s too bad she needs a reading tutor. No. No, it isn’t. That, my friends, is the exact response I have given to several...
    Thanks to a "Mom University" held by our local MOPS, my family has gotten into listening to kid friendly podcasts most of the time...
When I moved to the United States from India almost 2 decades ago, the science geek in me thought I would be a lab...
There is a never-ending list of topics we should talk to our children about. One topic that doesn’t usually come to mind immediately is...
I know being a parent leaves less time to do things you did before you had kids. One of my favorite things to do...
My son Aden got the bug for snowboarding last year when his grandmother bought him one of those cheap plastic snowboards from Target.  We...
If someone asked me the most important lesson I learned in my first year of homeschooling, I could answer without even thinking: If something...
I used to love the first day of school. The anticipation of the unknown mingled with the excitement of seeing my friends always created...
Parenting is all about following your gut feeling and doing what works best for you and your child. This post is about our adventure into...
I'm thinking about signing up for some writing seminars. Like, maybe: Exploding the Moment: Making the Most of the Minimal in Prose and Poetry. Or: Using...
I’ve got some pretty ridiculous parenting nightmares floating around in my head. For instance, my biggest fear while pregnant was that my kid would...

In + Around Vermont

Winter in Vermont

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It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...