Every summer I make the same mistake. I think to myself, “I don’t need any help or planned activities for the kids this summer! School is so structured and scripted, they need summertime fr...
Our little family just returned from a most wonderful week-long vacation to Costa Rica. I had, of course, heard people talk about Costa Rica and heard their wondrous stories of vacations. But bef...
https://ahappystitch.com/2016/04/05/family-trip-to-costa-rica/
Way back (ah, decades ago!) when I was in college in Madison, WI, I met a vibrant, adventurous, elegant woman whose bohemian and artistic outlook was a revelation and an inspiration. One of t...
https://ahappystitch.com/2015/09/08/sunprinted-tablecloth-and-napkins/
It’s been pretty quiet around the blog for the last week and a half! My apologies about that. The boys had their spring break last week and after much debate we decided to try our first stay-...
https://ahappystitch.com/2015/04/17/spring-break-stay-cation/
We have returned from our glorious family trip to Ireland! Our lungs are full of fresh, clean air and our bellies full of ‘chips’. My husband is Irish and while his parents live in the U.S....
It’s been an extraordinary winter. Lots of snow, lots of ice and lots of snow days. Snow days at our house consist of hours and hours of Lego playtime and wearing pi’s until noon. There ain�...
https://ahappystitch.com/2014/02/03/winter-walks-other-goings-ons/
I realize this is something of a taboo topic but I feel I gotta be upfront. there is nothing like a family vacation to make me miss the days BEFORE I had kids. it’s just feels unfair to cal...
https://ahappystitch.com/2013/09/09/vacation-with-kids-a-confession-and-story-of-success/
scoff if you must but new jersey is beautiful right now. it’s a well-kept secret just how stunning this state can get. and I don’t mean like Carmela Soprano-on-a-good-night stunning. I ...
it’s been a wild week in new jersey. that great big popeye arm called hurricane sandy hooked a left and hit us pretty hard leaving a metaphorical black eye of amazing proportions. for our l...
https://ahappystitch.com/2012/11/03/sandy-that-old-hurricane-that-blew-threw-town/
~it’s wednesday, day three in this week-long highlight of bits and pieces of inspiration~ today it’s a photo of the simply perfect symmetry of forget-me-nots from a summer hike last year in m...