America 250 Family Fun Guide
Celebrate America’s birthday all throughout Addison County with these free, family-friendly events!
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Kid in a Candy Store
Growing up in upstate New York, I have fond memories of walking into Lake George candy shops with my grandfather Pa while my mother was at work. The waft of chocolate and sugar that hit you as soon as you opened the door. The bright, colorful displays of candy paired with the earth tones of
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Weekend Happenings
Here’s what a few local families were up to during the long Memorial Day weekend. A Visit to the Shelburne Museum It’s a little outside Addison County, but the Shelburne Museum was a hit with the whole family. The museum offers a Family Fun Guide that helps young explorers learn as they wander around. Our
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Swimming is fun, but consider safety
Even though it has not really felt like spring until the past few days, the occasional warmer days we have had have me yearning for summer. For me, summer has always been associated with swimming. I started on swim team when I was 7 years old at Baboosic Lake in New Hampshire. A coach told
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Hatching Chicks in a Classroom
Springtime in Vermont is in its full, glorious swing. The mud is among us, the flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing and….BABY CHICKS ARE HATCHING! I have assisted several classrooms many times with this really exciting project over the past 10 years. It’s always a really fun, science-based, farming-centered countdown that ends up with
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I Don’t Care About Cobwebs
MiniBury, I have a confession for you: I don’t really care about cobwebs. I’m much too busy looking down at smiling faces. Or at the enormous worm, in a little hand, someone brought in from the garden. Sometimes someone is practicing tying their shoes and I need to concentrate. I do care about lots of
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The Only Dad in the Room
I’m often the only dad in the room—at school pickup, at ballet and gymnastics classes, at toddler time and library story time. So every time I walk into these events, with my daughter holding my hand, there’s a thought, not incredibly loud or insistent, but one I am certainly aware of nonetheless: “This is a
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The Ear Bean
A couple of weeks ago, I clocked out of work at the end of the day, drove across town and walked into the preschool my daughter attends. Like any other day I smiled across the room at her, confessed how much I missed her in the 7 hours we were apart and waved to her
A kid can do a lot of living in a season
Before pushing the passing winter too far into the recesses of my memory, I choose to pause and take stock of how much living and growing can happen in a single season. This weekend marked the end of the season of skiing at the Middlebury Snowbowl, which has been our family’s playground and sanity salve
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