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Along the Ammonoosuc River – Tuesday Tour Guide
The Ammonoosuc River runs through the heart of Littleton. Historically, the river played an important role in the town’s history, with mills and factories lining its shores. The river continues to play an important role in the town today, not for industry and manufacturing, but for recreation and hospitality. The river adds to our town’s charm and makes for a pleasant walk through town or a lovely meal on the patio of one of our area restaurants. On a nice day, you can see kids splashing around in the river and people fishing from the rocks. I have even watched whitewater kayaking lessons taking place. There are at least four…
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Along the Ammonoosuc River – Sunday Snapshots
The Ammonoosuc River runs right through the heart of Littleton. I always find it so peaceful to walk along the river. Check back Tuesday for a more detailed post about this area. This blog is participating in the Sundays in my City link up. To see photo posts from other bloggers’ communities, click the button below.
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Creating a Back to School Command Center
It is hard to believe it is already time for Back to School! Summer seemed to fly by this year. In getting ready for a new school year, I really wanted to create a create a more organized homework station/command center for Ryan. Looking on Pinterest, there are tons of creative ideas. I would have loved to come up with some new creative idea that was super Pinterest-worthy, but instead I have created a pretty basic homework station. Here is what we have: I picked up blueish paper and pen holders from T.J.Maxx. I wanted to keep pens/pencils/markers easily accessible and have a spot for any important papers or library…
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Kid-free for a few days – and a new roof!
Both of my kids are visiting family in Maine right now. They are staying for a few days and I don’t even know what to do with myself. This is the first time I have really been away from Saoirse since she was born 2.5 years ago. When I asked her if she wanted to have a sleepover with Ryan and grandma, she was really excited. I know that she will be totally fine, especially with her big brother there to help her. I was still a little nervous about dropping her off though. I am really looking forward to having a few days where I can do what I…
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Maidstone State Park – Tuesday Tour Guide
Sunday was our first time visiting Maidstone State Park. We went for a potluck with a group of friends, and it was a great chance to explore our area more! The park was about an hour away from Littleton (which is really nothing up here in the North Country, especially to my Texan husband). It was a very pleasant drive traveling further north in New Hampshire, and then the park was just across the Connecticut River in Vermont. Maidstone Lake is a 796 acre glacial lake. The water depths vary greatly. A lot of it is shallow, but I was told that the water gets as deep as 122 feet…
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Maidstone State Park – Sunday Snapshots
Today we visited Maidstone State Park in Maidstone, Vermont for a potluck with friends. Check out some of the pictures of the beautiful scenery here. About Sunday Snapshots – I love the idea of blogging about the area where I live and sharing it with others. When I was looking at blog link-ups, I stumbled across the Sundays in my City link up. I love the idea of being able to post just a quick picture or two of my area, especially because I am usually busy with my family on the weekends and don’t have time for a ton of writing. I still do want to write about where…
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Refocusing – Projects, Places and Personal
My blogging has taken a lot of different forms over the years (most of which I believe I have deleted now). I have blogged about being a college student, being a young mom, raising a child on the spectrum etc. My most recent iteration of my blog was intended to focus on learning to deal with anxiety and looking at motherhood through the lens of anxiety. At the time when I chose to focus my blog on that, anxiety was consuming my life and I hoped that blogging would be a good coping mechanism. Now I seem to have my anxiety under control and writing about anxiety isn’t particularly helpful…
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Littleton, New Hampshire – My (New) Hometown!
Littleton is a very cheerful little mountain town, full of quirky shops and restaurants. The town seems to have almost a magnetic pull to it. People are just drawn here. The first time I ever visited Littleton, I was amazed by what a cute little town it was and wondered what it would be like to live here. Unbeknownst to me, Cal had driven through the town two years earlier and thought the exact same thing. I have met so many other people who were drawn to this town in the same way. Still, when it came time to decide where to move to in New Hampshire, we never considered…
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Fourth of July Festivities – Littleton, NH
Last week was a busy week for us between fireworks, friendly potlucks and a town-wide block party. It was a great first Fourth of July experience in our new hometown of Littleton. The small town we were renting in previously was a very isolating experience for us, our experience thus far in Littleton has been the complete opposite of that and I have loved exploring and getting to know the town and area better. On the 3rd we had a potluck with new friends and then rushed home in order to see the Littleton Fireworks show. We were having such a great time with friends, that we ran later than…
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Rusty, our rescue pup
Meet our newest family member – Rusty! I have missed living with dogs since I first moved away for college at 18. When Ryan came along, and as he got older, I desperately wanted him to get to experience growing up with pets. I also didn’t want to get a dog if we wouldn’t be home most of the day, and I didn’t want to risk dog ownership while renting. I worried with a dog that changing pet agreements could potentially put me in a position where I would have to choose behind Ryan’s well-being and stability of living environment and keeping a dog. So I held off. I waited…
