What’s going on at Caterpickles?
Between protesting proposed budget cuts to the public school budget, bike riding, inspecting local boulders for signs of glacial activity, hunting for asteroids, and the need…
Book Review: In Season: A Natural History of the New England Year
Growing up in a big city, like I did, you can easily feel disconnected from nature. Turns out growing up in small town Massachusetts, like The Four-Year-Old, is not that much better. The world around us still feels pretty well-groomed and not terribly wild. Even if we do have a rabbit living under the shed in our backyard. That’s just one of the reasons I was thrilled to find Nona Estrin’s In Season: A Natural History of the New England Year.
Hey Mass Parents: Updated Santa Tracker for the Greater Boston Area
Via the Norwood Patch, I have learned that: Santa will be making daily visits between now and Dec 24 to the Walpole Mall, the Bass Pro…
Hey Boston-Area Parents–Want a free photo with Santa?
Just a quick post to let you know that Santa has come flying in from the North Pole to set up a Workshop at the Bass…
“Why is it called Walpole?”
Last weekend, while the citizens of Caterpickles Central were driving around Massachusetts in yet another attempt to find good Mexican food, we passed through a little town called Walpole. The Four-Year-Old, thought that was a pretty weird thing to call a town. “Why do they call it Walpole?”
In which we visit Davis Farmland in Sterling, MA
At the beginning of the summer, my daughter asked me where she could go to dig for dinosaur bones. We had visited the tracks at the Nash Dinosaur Track Site and Rock Shop as well as the Dinosaur Footprints at Holyoke, MA last fall, and my daughter wasn’t interested in simply going to see more footprints. She wanted bones. And she wanted to dig up least two of them, so that she could keep one for herself and give the other to the Museum of Science.
In which we visit Capron Park Zoo in Attleboro, MA
Another in our ongoing series: What We Did This Summer. Capron Park Zoo is a beautifully maintained mini-zoo (think park with creatures) in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Walking…
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.
In which we visit the Boston Public Garden
Another in our ongoing series, What We Did This Summer. (Yeah, I know this is clearly What We Did this Spring, but our family considers our…
What to do on your 43rd visit to the Boston Museum of Science
OK, so maybe we haven’t really been to the Boston Museum of Science 43 times this year, but sometimes it sure can feel like it. So where do you go when your preschooler has memorized the dinosaur exhibit, categorized the complete contents of the midden heap, swarmed the Butterfly Garden, grown tired of the Apollo and Mercury space capsules, eked every last bit of joy out of the orbiting marbles in Mathematica, and despaired of the chaos in Science in the Park?
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