Tag: Holidays

This weekend felt nice and long and a little bittersweet. The air was frigid on Friday evening, leaving Halloween feeling more like a trek into the windy winter cold than a festive neighborhood celebration. Neighbors with rosy cheeks and noses huddled in front of mini bonfires in their yards and pulled blankets closer around their … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans, and Remembering”

We’re bracing for a very cold and windy trick-or-treat tonight, though I don’t mind bundling up. Something about racing around the neighborhood collecting candy makes me think we will be working up a sweat anyway! Plus, call me crazy, but I’m ready to cozy up near a fire, make big pots of chili and bake … Continue reading “Happy Halloween!”

We keep thinking, this is the last warm weekend, NO! THIS is the REAL last warm weekend! so we play so hard and sometimes do too much and our boys let us know by acting like crazy hellions. But we did have a great weekend. It was a weekend filled with trees and all the things they … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

How was your Labor Day weekend? We had a really nice time, from a Friday night Ghost Walk with our hilarious friends Maggie and Alex (who are, by the way, quite possibly the best people to go out on the town with) to some lovely friends in our neighborhood inviting us to their family pool … Continue reading “Long Weekend Shenanigans”

This past weekend we made it back to the Missouri Botanical Gardens, one of my absolute favorite places in St. Louis. This was a special trip, though, because in the four years we have lived here, Andrew had never been! We finally made the trip as a whole family and we had such a great … Continue reading “Missouri Botanical Gardens”