The Day We’ve Dreaded Is Finally Here
So Evan’s body is telling us that it’s ready for his VSD to be closed. I was expecting Evan’s cardiologist to utter these words today, but it didn’t make the news any easier to bear....
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Green Friday Hike: Snowshoeing on Weir Hill
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Weir Hill, North Andover, MA Date: November 28, 2014 Distance: 1.04 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 229 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour, 4 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: Yellow Circle (Stevens Trail) & Blue Circle (Weir Hill &...
Review of LEGOLAND® Discovery Center in Boston, MA
As a kid, I loved LEGOS®. I made houses, towers, cars, mini-cities – anything I could think of in my imagination. I rarely stayed on script, most often straying from the instructions that came...
A Week of Halloween Fun: Halloween 2014
Last year we were very low-key during Halloween. The twins were just eight weeks old, and as excited as Addie was to don her monkey costume and trick-or-treat, it was a short night. This...
Bicycling the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, Lowell-Westford, MA
Location: Bruce Freeman Rail Trail – Lowell-Westford, MA Date: August 31, 2014 Distance: 13.82 miles round trip Elevation Gain: 171 feet Our Bicycling Time: 2 hours 4 minutes round trip Difficulty: Easy Trail Map Biking is quickly creeping up on...
Happy Birthday Evan & Kate! The Twins Are One!
It’s hard to believe we are moms to one year old twins! So much has happened this past year – good, tough, and in between. These two have continued to shake things up since they...
Hiking Mt. Pisgah in North Carolina
When Kendra and I were first dating, she invited me to drive with her to South Carolina. What she didn’t tell me was that her parents, Jane and Boris, were out of town, and...
Visiting the Goats at Split Creek Farm, Anderson, SC
A trip to South Carolina wouldn’t be complete without a visit to our favorite goat dairy – Split Creek Farm in Anderson, SC. Though the farm is an awesome, award-winning goat dairy in its own...
Hiking at Oconee Station Cove Falls Trail, Walhalla, SC
[box border=”full”]Location: Oconee Station Cove Falls Trail,Walhalla, SC Date: August 10, 2014 Distance: 2 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 181 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour 44 minutes Trail Blaze: Yellow Square above Rectangle Difficulty: Easy Trail Map [/box] Even with gray, drizzly...
Bicycling the Swamp Rabbit Trail, Greenville, SC
[box border=”full”]Location: Swamp Rabbit Trail – Greenville, SC Date: August 7, 2014 Distance: 3.92 miles round trip Elevation Gain: 43 feet Our Bicycling Time: 1 hour round trip Difficulty: Easy Trail Map[/box] Right before we left Massachusetts, our friend Ivan dropped...