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at Zilker Botanical Garden

Day 1 of our Spring Break staycation. overlooking the Rose Garden: in the Butterfly Garden: enjoying the Children’s Garden: I’ve been to Zilker Botanical Garden lots of times before, but what struck me most on this visit were (a) how accessible the bathrooms are. When you take preschoolers for a morning romp through a big [...]

at Boggy Creek

While Nathan attended a zafu-sewing get together this morning, the kids and I ventured out to Boggy Creek Farm in SE Austin.  The air was cool and comfortable, the sun was gentle and we had a wonderful time.  Ben and Maddie carried baskets around the market tables.  They each chose sweet potatoes, and Maddie chose [...]

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New Year’s Eve at Inks Lake

Prickly pear Some kind of sotol? or yucca? Deer track in our campsite Great Blue Heron, on the lake near Devil’s Waterhole Camp kitchen Cooking pouches of camp fire apples on New Year’s Eve! Playing “sink or float?” in small pools of water in the gneiss rock After dinner Pencil cactus White-tailed deer Playing in [...]

Decorating gingerbread

Ben’s preschool classmate Torin and his mom Erica hosted a gingerbread decorating party last weekend.  Ben and his pals dressed their gingerbread cakes with white frosting, marshmallows, sprinkles, red hots and red and green gumdrops: Here’s Ben’s finished creation: And here are some of his friends’ gingerbread people. I don’t remember who made this one: [...]

trimming the tree

We decorated our Christmas tree this afternoon, just the four of us.  Then we went out for dinner at a new Indian restaurant near our house.  Then we drove around looking at Christmas lights, while the children enjoyed the dum dums that the owner of the Indian restaurant kindly gave them when we left. If [...]

Halloween 2011

At a pumpkin carving party, Ben and one of his preschool classmates: Maddie Roo in a patch o pumpkins: (Who declined to wear a costume at all this year, sharing that she “might be a little bit scared.”) Ben, post-trick-or-treating on Halloween night: