“I always think of the postpartum period as a period of isolation,” said Alison Underwood. Parents are adjusting. They’re not sleeping much, not gathering with friends the way they used to. They’re staying home to protect their baby’s fragile immune system. But the pandemic has complicated things, said Underwood, a licensed independent clinical social worker […]
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These are so easy, but the wow factor is high. My kids had never experienced water balloons before, so just the act of filling a balloon with water was mind-blowing to them. We were inspired to try this project after seeing similar ice balloons outside the Mary Hogan pre-K entrance earlier this winter. WHAT YOU
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Did your kids bring a winter passport home from school? This year’s passport was created by the ACSD Community Partnership Council — the same group responsible for the brand new ice rink in Middlebury and the school-based health center at Middlebury Union High School that opened last winter. The council’s focus this year is on
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When Maria Graham hatched the idea to build an outdoor ice rink in Middlebury just in time for the February school break, it didn’t take long to rustle up community support. Within a week, Graham’s coworker Janet Lapiner, who is on the ACSD Community Partnership Council’s “Joy Committee” — yes, that’s a real thing —
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I was gliding over the ice under the lights on a Friday night when I realized: This is how Vermonters do winter. We had met up with another family at the outdoor ice rink at Vermont Trade Winds Farm in Shoreham. The sky was moody and the air was crisp. We noodled around with hockey sticks and
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The Bristol Conservation Commission invites you to explore the outdoors with its Winter Scavenger Hunt! Head outdoors wherever you’d like (it doesn’t have to be in Bristol) and find 20 of the 22 items listed. Submit your game card to the Lawrence Memorial Library by March 9, 2021 to be entered into the raffle. Raffle
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Remember when we used to do stuff indoors during the winter? My family used to spent an awful lot of time lingering in the Snow Bowl lodge, in Junebug, in the children’s room at Ilsley Library and the college field house. We’ve loved spending more time outdoors this winter. But sometimes I just want a
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The weekend before Christmas, my family and I hosted a physically distant holiday extravaganza called the CocoaPort. Inspired by COVID restrictions — and the lack of a downtown hot cocoa hut — we created a series of magical, mechanical contraptions to deliver cocoa fixins to friends and family at a distance. We also had a miniature
When I called Wayne Smith to ask about his magnificently over-the-top holiday lights display, which I had visited for the first time the night before, he said, incredulously, “How long have you lived in Addison County?! And this was your first time?!” Wayne and his wife, Diane, have created an outrageous wonderland of illumination on their Salisbury
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