June 2010

Free Range Kids On The Less Traveled Trail

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Seduced by tales of free range kids, we let our kids hike the Frankenstein Cliff Trail in New Hampshire on their own. Mind you, we let our ten-year-old go off with the same mature teen who forgot to pack her hiking boots for a backpacking expedition.  Despite her forgetfulness, we had good reason for our [...]

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The Packing List: Friend or Foe?

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After a tense school year, abounding in tests that determine our eldest’s future, the entire family is wound up so tight that our fight or flight response is on full alert. Before taking flight, we had just one more chore, but it was a doosie. We had one day to pack for a hut to [...]

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Strawberry Shortcake On A Summer Evening In Schoharie

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The promise of strawberry shortcake was the only lure needed to draw us to the Strawberry Festival in Schoharie, NY. For every food there is a time.  At Halloween, there is the season of the candy corn.  Come Easter, and you have the season of the peep.  And now, I’ve found a (new to me) [...]

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Skate Parks In The Capital Region

by Sandra Foyt

I’ve been looking for skate parks in the Capital Region. No, not for myself.  Can you imagine? Middle aged mom dons breaks every bone trying to learn how to do an ollie. No, I’ve been looking for a places to take my son to practice skateboarding that are fun, safe, and preferably free. I haven’t [...]

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Go Skateboarding Day at Clifton Park Action Park

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Ever since he got a new skateboard in California last summer, my son has been nagging me to take him to a skate park.  I told him to just go outside and practice his skateboard skills in the neighborhood, but I knew better.  Skateboarding on rough asphalt is no substitute for gliding on smooth concrete. [...]

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Summer Camps Confession

by Sandra Foyt

I know I said that I would post a guide to summer camps, but I never got around to it.  Sorry.  In my defense, it’s been years since I signed my kids up for a summer camp.  Our summers are so short, and our travel plans so long, that it’s almost impossible to cram in [...]

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Eating Adventurously At Family-Friendly Restaurants

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What is a family-friendly restaurant?  Perhaps the better question might be: What restaurant isn’t family friendly?  And if it isn’t family friendly, is it a place where I would choose to dine? My husband and I are not fancy people, and although we enjoy a wide range of foods, we’re never going to be comfortable [...]

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Stalking Bettie and her Marvelous Cupcakes

by Sandra Foyt

After our visit to Bettie’s Double Decker Cupcake Stand, I was compelled to go to the mother ship in Saratoga Springs, NY.  I just had to see the source of those cupcakes, with their strange but oddly delicious flavor combinations. Locating the cupcakery cafe in downtown Saratoga Springs is a little tricky.  On the first [...]

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I Can See Clearly Now

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One of our less delightful summer chores is getting through all the medical visits that are postponed during the school year. In one week, my daughter is being poked and prodded by a dentist, a pediatrician, an optometrist, and an orthodontist. At the pediatrician visit, we discovered that both my kids would need to get [...]

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Strawberries and Biscuits at Schoharie Valley Farms

by Sandra Foyt

If I could, I would stop at every roadside stand  to stock up on comestibles, and to just soak in the ambience. Time being limited, I pick and choose where we pull over. The Carrot Barn lured me in for the name alone.  Come on, it’s big, it’s green, and it’s called the “carrot barn.”  [...]

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