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Category Archives: Madeleine
at Zilker Botanical Garden
March 12, 2012 – 8:58 pm
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
February 25, 2012 – 3:10 pm
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 [...]
New Year’s Eve at Inks Lake
January 1, 2012 – 10:35 pm
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 [...]
trimming the tree
December 4, 2011 – 8:33 pm
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 [...]
3 years
November 27, 2011 – 7:50 pm
Three years, my Madeleine. The time has passed too quickly. Today we had a wonderful, if cold and windy, birthday celebration at the park. Several of Maddie’s preschool classmates joined us, as well as my parents, Grandpa John and Grandma Sharon, Maddie’s Aunt Amber, Uncle Nick and cousins Andrew and Matthew, and other close family [...]
Halloween 2011
November 7, 2011 – 8:19 pm
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: