Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ten days in Europe sans enfants has been wonderful and bizarre. And now… back to reality, which is also wonderful and bizarre, in a different way. Tot ziens, fair city.
World Food for Kids: The Amsterdam Edition
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Daddio and I have had some lovely, delicious and romantic dinners while on work-ation (without twins) in Amsterdam. But we are here for more than a week, so we can’t go out for fancy meals all the…
Twin-Free
Amsterdam, Netherlands – I know I like to go on and on about how great it is to travel with kids, but you know what? It’s really great to travel without kids. Daddio and I just embarked on a 10-day,…
Bliny
Somerville, Mass – This weekend we hosted our second annual party celebrating Maslenitsa, the Russian festival that bids farewell (perhaps prematurely) to winter. And before anyone calls me on it, I’m aware that we were a week early, but my…
Snow Day
Somerville, Mass – More snow? Bring it on…
Museum of Science – Discovery Center
Boston, Mass – We recently broke down and became members at the Museum of Science (again). Our membership cards came in the mail and we threw them in the drawer along with our membership cards for the Museum of Fine…
42 Finnish Foods
Somerville, Mass – Let me preface this by saying that 42 is a pretty big number when it comes to Finnish foods. And “desperately need” are strong words, even if it is an attempt at funny by Buzz Feed. But…
New Books
Somerville, Mass – Before I was a travel writer, I worked as a program administrator for an environmental research program at Harvard. I’ll never forget the day that a box of brand new, hot-off-the-presses books showed up at our office.…
Heart of Robin Hood
Cambridge, Mass – Since we celebrated Christmas in Costa Rica, Daddio and I did not do a great job buying presents for each other. Let me rephrase that… I did not do a great job buying Christmas presents for Daddio.…
Lou’s Pet Shop
Grosse Pointe, Michigan – Whenever we visit the grandparents in Michigan, we always pay a visit to Lou’s Pet Shop, the greatest pet shop in the world. At Lou’s, the twins have made friends with catfish, manhandled baby bunnies and…