Third Grade Field Trip – A Walking Tour of Our Town

Jun 112013
 

Yesterday, I got to accompany my oldest on a walking tour field trip of our town.  The kids are learning all about our town in social studies, so the field trip tied into what they’re learning in the classroom perfectly.

Actually, myself and another mom are regular volunteers in the classroom and the teacher (who I LOVE) approached us a couple of months ago to see if we would be up to planning this entire field trip, which of course – we were.  I met up with the other mom about a month ago and we personally visited the fire station, police station, library and the post office to coordinate times and get the visits all scheduled. And yesterday was the big day.

Our first stops were to be the fire and police stations. There were two classes on the field trip and because space was limited, especially in the police station, one class went to the police station for a tour while the other went to the fire station.  They’re right next to each other, so after a half hour the classes switched.  Our class went to the fire station first.

One of the fire fighters explained how things at the station worked (ie their 24 hour on/off schedules, etc) and explained how some of the equipment worked.  One of the guys actually got into his full gear and I’m pretty sure every single mom chaperone reached for their camera when he came out in uniform.

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The kids all left the school with a clipboard and played a little scavenger hunt along the way.  They had to count how many churches & schools they passed, how many flags they spotted and things like that.  Plus, they had a list of information that they needed to attain at each location like the Police Chief’s name, etc.  Here’s my man paying attention: Continue reading »

Ice Cream For Dinner

Jun 022013
 

Summer has officially hit us here in Massachusetts and by that I mean that the past few days have been 90 degrees or warmer.  Last night, we decided that it would be a perfect night to have ice cream for dinner – so that’s what we did.

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There’s really no shortage of delicious ice cream places around us, but there is a new one in the next town over that we figured we’d try out. Actually I had already tried it one night after zumba, but I figured that it didn’t count since I ate the ice cream immediately following a workout, so the calories were canceled out…..right?   Continue reading »

The Pilgrim Cove Pool at the John Carver Inn

May 312013
 

Last weekend, Chris and I had planned to take the boys to northern New Hampshire so that we could go to Santa’s Village (theme park), but rain was in the forecast, so we thought it was best to postpone the trip.  As it turns out, the rain they were supposed to get ended up being snow up and the park was closed because of it on Sunday, so it’s a good thing we decided to stay home.  To get to where we were going, it would have been a 3 to 3 1/2 hour drive and trust me, there is nothing else to do up there – so we would have been stuck in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do if we had gone.

We decided to take the boys to The John Carver Inn in Plymouth to swim for the day instead. The John Carver Inn has a big pilgrim themed pool, and we figured it would be a good way for the boys to burn off some energy.  We got there in the late morning and we were there all day.

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They were excited to get to the water slide.  As you can see it’s a Mayflower replica:
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A Morning at the Buttonwood Zoo (New Bedford, MA)

May 232013
 

Where we live there are several small zoos, and the gruesome twosome and I are frequent visitors.   We have a membership to one and with our membership, we get into the other one (in Attleboro, MA) for free – so when the nice weather hits, we make the rounds.  The Buttonwood Zoo in New Bedford is awesome.  Like I said, it’s small, so you can blow through it in about an hour – or make the day out of it if you want to pack a picnic lunch and participate in some of the activities they have going on throughout the day.

Chris and I took the boys for the first time this spring a couple of weeks ago and they were psyched to get back there.

Our first stop is almost always the bears.

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And then we head to the elephants. Continue reading »

Oh Bollocks….

Jun 032010
 

Ok, so I am driving down the highway the other day, right? I was in the middle lane, rocking out with my kids to They Might Be Giants, Here Come the ABC’s, just minding my own business.

Suddenly a car passes me in the fast lane and I notice the car has a set of balls attached to the back. Mind you, my five year old’s booster seat is directly behind mine, and being the observant child he is, I immediately started praying that he was looking in the other direction and wouldn’t see them. It was a conversation I wasn’t really prepared to have with him and I kept repeating in my head “Please don’t look at the balls. Please don’t look at the balls. Please don’t look at the balls” until the dreaded moment came when he noticed the balls.

But, much to my surprise he said “Mommy, look that car has one of those things you milk cows with” and not another word about it. PHEW…I totally feel like I dodged a bullet on that one.

In case you have no idea what in the hell I am talking about, check out the picture of the man tonsils on this car. It is the closest picture that I could find.