Summer Nights

Once upon a time, my favorite thing about summer was not the day spent at the beach or pool, lifeguarding, getting a killer tan, hanging out with my friends, flirting with the boys.  Nope.  Those things were pretty good, I’ll admit, but my favorite part of a summer day was later.
Oh, I loved cleaning up [...]

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From Rain to Shine

Day one of our two week Cape Cod vacation was anything but boring.  Okay, it was a little boring, but in that great I’m-on-vacation way.  Ray had to go grocery shopping since we had only a couple of bagels and a variety of spices and condiments in the house.  I convinced him that taking the [...]

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Vacation!

We’re finally here.  We didn’t leave home until mid-afternoon, about 5 hours after we’d hoped to get on the road, and didn’t arrive to our destination on Cape Cod until almost 4:30.  But we’re here!
Cooper and Ellie are both still feverish and cranky, with little energy or appetites.  Mitzi and Joanna are so full of [...]

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We’re From Here

I keep forgetting my children are from Massachusetts.  Despite having lived here for a dozen years, I keep forgetting I live here, and often refer to my parents’ house as “home,” as in, “We’re going home for a week in July.”
But the kids live here.  Three of the four were born here.  When they go [...]

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