How to Dress Your Kids for the Snow

For our family, going outside on a snowy day is automatically on the to do list, and a quick look at the thermometer and outside the window is enough for me to mentally assess what we all need to wear. If you aren’t used to taking your kids out into the snow, however, this can…

Snap It Outdoors: Shoveling

An unexpected 5 inches of snow fell yesterday. We woke up to a winter wonderland, despite the fact the weather had fooled us into thinking it was spring in February just the week before. We took Red to school, and watched the cars fishtail back up our street after, Small shrieking with delight while I…

Snap It Outdoors: Skipping School

I accidentally booked a vacation that overlapped with Red’s first day of kindergarten. School started the day after the solar eclipse, and went back especially early in August. I was annoyed with myself, but the trip was booked.  He could start the next day. And instead we spent a glorious day biking around Ponderosa State…

3 Tips for A Short, Easy Hike With Kids

I hadn’t wanted to do an easy hike; I have a new book of trails in Boise that I’ve been itching to test out. It was a beautiful day, unexpectedly for February it was sunny and in the high 50s. I had great plans of tiring the boys out and getting them to bed sharp…

Snap It Outdoors: Trail Mix

Sometimes the boys love to go for a hike with me, but more often than not at least one of them complains at the suggestion. I find I have a constantly rotating list of things that might entice them into the open, and once we’re there, they love it and forget all about whatever they…

The days are long but the years are short

Smalls is now the age Red was when we moved to Boise.  When I was 35 weeks pregnant – with Smalls. I hear this phrase all the time, the days are long, but the years are short. I acknowledge it intellectually, I understand it’s true, but normally I’m stuck down so deep in those long…