Archive for the ‘Celebrating’ Category

s.o.a.r. award (and a shout out to the super bowl champs)

Posted on February 8th, 2016 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Zia received the December-January SOAR award last week. The teachers had a little award ceremony for the SOAR students and parents Thursday at 7 am (yawn). They had a breakfast buffet in the school library with cereal, juice, muffins, danish, and doughnuts–since of course everyone knows the very best way to start a kid’s day […]



happy challahdays

Posted on December 25th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

We had such a great day together at home. The kids popped out of bed early and opened some little presents in the morning, which was very exciting and included things like Superhero Chutes and Ladders, Thinking Putty, and Quidditch goggles. David gave me an American Giant hoody in a deep strawberry pink/red (which I […]



first days of winter

Posted on December 23rd, 2015 by mountain girl  |  5 Comments »

Yesterday we got an unexpected little snow to celebrate the beginning of winter. I gave chocolate chip cookies in the mountains another try–but the altitude obviously hasn’t changed lately. We affectionately dubbed them “waffle cookies” and scarfed them all. Zia is helping me make that messenger bag she wanted from Oliver + s.  We made […]



eleven years…and counting!

Posted on December 1st, 2015 by mountain girl  |  10 Comments »

Happy anniversary to US! This card was waiting for me in the kitchen this morning, and it made me laugh. Eleven years ago today, I wore a white dress with snowflakes and a pair of red flats just like these (except we took off the bows). We had come to cold and snowy Stockbridge, New […]



thanksgiving 2015

Posted on November 26th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

  Happy Thanksgiving!