Back into the Swing of Things

After a month of family vacation and summer camps, we're all home and easing back into our regular routines. The girls are back at day care, which isn't as much fun as Cape Cod or riding camp, but they're coping. Murray and I are back into the rhythm of the daily commute.

Lots has been happening in the village as well. This last weekend there was a BBQ at Laura's Corners, another fund raiser for a local child who has been diagnosed with cancer. The week we left the entire village turned out for a Strawberry Social. That event raised an amazing $16,000.00.

I ran out to the general store on the weekend to get some yeast for Sarah and my rainy day bread baking session and stopped to buy a lemonade from some little girls who had set up a lemonade stand on the store's front porch. They were raising money to pay the vet bills of an injured cat they'd found. There must be something about this village, you learn early how to band together and get things done, how to help out in the community and make sure anyone or anything that needs help gets it. It was a cold rainy day, certainly not ideal lemonade weather but their donation jar was full of bills.

It was good to be back.

Summer fun in Boston

We started off our vacation with two days in Boston. The girls quickly made friends with Catie the resident Lab at the Fairmont Coply Plaza. We were allowed to take Catie for a walk in the park across the street. Actually, Catie took us for a walk, she originally trained as a guide dog, and old habits die hard.

The next day it was off to the Boston Children's Museum, possible the best children's museum ever.

Lunch at the Barking Crab followed, and a visit to the New England Aquarium finished the day.