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In which we visit the Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich, MA

Last spring, when I was experiencing an extreme case of Cape deprivation, my husband and daughter very kindly agreed to come with me on a day-trip to the Cape. We decided to visit the Sandwich Glass Museum because it was one of those things that we had wanted to see on our vacation in the Cape the previous summer, but which we had somehow never quite gotten around to.  Funny how a live glass-blowing demonstration sounds more appealing on a drizzly 42 degree March day than it does on a sunny 95 degree August one.

Review: Eco Lunch Gear reusable sandwich bags

When my daughter graduated from purees to Cheerios in late 2008, I suddenly found myself carrying around a lot of snacks. The demand for snack totage has only increased as my daughter has gotten older and the length of time we can be out in the world on a single trip has increased. Tired of carrying single purpose Ziplocs, I decided to find a better option. Eco Lunch Gear offers a variety of reusable fabric snack bags, sandwich wraps, and lunch bags in cheerful and occasionally conservative prints.

In which we visit the Magic Flute Toy Shop

While we were tooling around the Monadnock region this summer, we stumbled upon the Magic Flute Toy Shop, a rather amazing toy store hidden behind an unassuming store front in a strip mall in Peterborough, NH, about thirty minutes northeast of Hillsborough.

Music Review – Snacktime!

Music consistently smooths the rough 3 o’clock patch in our four-year-old’s afternoon. Fresh home from preschool, often completely tired out but too stubborn to take a nap, my daughter just wants to park herself on the couch and watch TV. But if I start playing the Barenaked Ladies preschooler-friendly album Snacktime!, my daughter miraculously regains the ability to draw, color, and help her dinosaurs postpone extinction for another day.

In which we visit Monadnock Berries

As you may remember, one of our more memorable road trips this summer was to a berry picking farm in New Hampshire. Monadnock Berries is a family owned and operated 225-year-old farm within sight of Mount Monadnock in Troy, NH. Finding this place was an adventure all in itself, as our car’s GPS seems to be allergic to country roads. Fortunately, there were plenty of signs to help us out when our GPS sneezed.