Reviews at Random

It's leaf peepin' season here in New England, the BoSawx are in the championships, Baby Girl is helping us clean the floor with all of her crawling, and we've got visitors in tow for a weekend of good weather, cider drinkin' and possibly a pumpkin patch or two. What's not to love about this glorious season? Here are a few other things I'm McLovin':

- The Asparagus White Bean Pesto Tart over at Vegan Yum Yum. Mine needed a touch more salt, but let me know how yours turns out, will you?

- Tom Wolfe and Truman Capote. The syllabus for one of my classes calls for both, and I dig these literati, I really do.

- Making birthday presents from hand. Pictured is a bulletin board I made for a 1st birthday girl. She thought there was a present inside, but it's cool, maybe it will be the gift that keeps giving (and being unwrapped) :)

- Building forts in the living room. You gotta start 'em young.

- Going apple picking. Or just sitting on the wet grass and watching all the other kids pick apples and having a barrel of laughs instead of a barrel of apples and not payin' no mind.

- Getting invited to fall open houses and being welcomed with an 8 month-old, especially because there would be another 8 month old there ~ holla! (Please disregard way Baby Girl is straddling J-Man).

- Trick-or-treating in the comforts of home.

Bad Parents

Can you believe these people? Taking their child out to the Red Sox game? On a SCHOOL night!

Exposing her to the elements...

Fraternizing with hecklers and drinkers and downright monsters!

Well...how ELSE are we going to raise a Red Sox fan?!?

This one knows, there's no crying in baseball.

SPF 105

Lately I feel like one of those Victorian characters ambling through pastures hedged with lavender, twirling my proverbial parasol, and making remarks like, "Ah, but 'tis good tonic for the spirit to be among this verdance!" Pfft. Been soaking up the rays with my little dahlin'. Of course I have my lonely moments (see also: When NPR becomes a dear friend), but I've really been having such skin tingling fun. Surely these days my cholesterol is lower, my heart healthier, or some condition that the Victorians would prescribe more sunshine and laughter to ameliorate.

Baby Girl? Whatchoo think about summer in the sunny city? Loves it.

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Swan Boats with Schaff and Family Schaff.

Swings at Castle Island

Rooftop lunch with Auntie Haddy at MIT

Quiet meditation in The Abyss (Bostonians, if you've not been, you must go and send a letter to the universe....)

"The whole earth is full of His glory." ~ Isaiah 6:3