Saying goodbye to Thacher

Yesterday, sadly, was the last day many New York State parks remained open. It's myopic to close them to save a little cash. This fact lent a bittersweet feeling to the visit (at least for me). The kids, however, just enjoyed the day wandering in their 'streamwalkers'. Beautiful day.

- J

 

Early Mornings With My Boy

Sometimes we wake up early(before even the littlest).I have coffee and my boy builds some elaborate "structure". We are quiet and together as the sun fills the house,just my boy and me.

A Favorite Place

We have in our plans for the the next few weeks,some visting to some of our favorite places in and around albany.Yesterday we hit Five Rivers a local nature perserve,a great place for family friendly hikes.We picked a trail and let the kids lead the way.Beren saw his first goose.And the big kids explored woods and water.It was a lovely goodbye.

Moving!!

what my life looks like right now


We are moving.We are leaving,family,friends and the only city my husband and I have ever lived in.

We are moving.We are going,somewhere new to a place I think we will see our family grow,learn and change in ways we never have before.

We are moving.

Life by the lakeside

This is a present, albeit a sort of cheesy one, for my wonderful wife Caitlin, on this wondrous day, Mother's Day 2010.

I hope that this blog will provide a route by which our friends and loved ones can keep touch with us as we relocate our family. I know email, phone, texting, instant messaging, and the like allow us all to keep tabs on our loved ones in ways we probably could never have dreamed of in our parent's generation, but blogs just seem so... I don't know. Perfect. It's exactly what we want to show you, is what I mean. Ha!

Welcome to life by the lakeside.