Medford, Mass – At age seven, the twins are becoming more and more independent at a rate I can barely manage. It did not seem like a super big deal last year when they started going to the park by…
Great White Shark
Boston, Mass – Martha’s Vineyard celebrated the 40th anniversary of Jaws in 2015. But Cape Cod stole the limelight from the island, when real live great white sharks started making regular appearances near beaches from Chatham to Truro. The town…
Annie, the Musical
Boston, Mass – We just hosted 30 six- and seven-year-olds for the twins’ birthday party. Next week I will jet off to Russia and Finland for the summer. And Daddio is looking forward to two weeks as a single parent, before he…
Keva Planks
Boston, Mass – This year, we are missing our annual trip to Florida. We have a whole week off and it’s cold out. We hardly know what to do with ourselves. So we ventured to the Boston Children’s Museum. Along…
Experience Kissimmee
Boston, Mass – We’re not going to Florida this year, so I was happy to receive an invitation from Experience Kissimmee for an event in Boston. In addition to drinks and swag we got to: Ride an air boat in the Boston Harbor thanks…
The Best Things in Life are Free
It’s true when they say that the best things in life are free. (Especially when you’re a kid! But that’s a topic for a different post.) Check out the NEW ultimate money-saving travel guide. My contributions are the sections on the…
Whale-Watching
Boston, Mass – We have lots of extended family in town this weekend–grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins galore. We have a full docket of activities lined up, starting with a whale-watching cruise with the New England Aquarium. This was a perfect…
4th of July
Boston, Massachusetts – Two years ago, we took the twins to watch the celebrated Boston Pops July-4th Spectacular (though we just went for the fireworks, not the Pops, and we watched from the Cambridge side of the river, which does…
Extraordinary Playscapes
Boston, Mass – I happened on this new little play area in Chinatown Park. It’s nothing earth-shattering, but I was struck by the unique design – colorful, modular pieces that fit together in unusual ways to allow crawling, climbing, slithering, sliding…
Puppets Take the Pops
Boston, Mass – Daddio has always been against the Pops. I understand his distaste for “Symphony Light,” but I am not too cool for the Pops. And the twins are not too cool for anything. So when the BSO sent us a mailer…