The Skarin Family Blog

Ever since Bruce and the boys made my belated birthday cake last week, Logan has been talking about how he is four and a half! And how he wants to have a cake to celebrate.  (Even though his half birthday was February 7th.) We were looking for something to do this afternoon on the snow day instead of watching a...

A professional day for the Millbury teachers and school for Logan meant that I got some rare one on one time with Evan today.  After we dropped Logan off at school, we stopped at Dunkin Donuts for a quick treat before heading to the Ecotarium for a few hours.  It was fairly quiet there today and it was especially nice...

For Christmas, Santa brought us tickets to see Paw Patrol Live!  He left a ticket for each of us in our stockings.  The show was tonight and what a fun night!  We started with an early dinner at Logan’s favorite restaurant, the 99, before heading to the Hanover Theater in Worcester for the show.  We waited anxiously for the show...

Last Monday, just past 10 o’clock in the morning, I received a text message from a friend with some terrible news.  Peter Anderson, one of Evan’s class of 2028 and baseball teammates, had fallen ill and had tragically passed away in the early hours of the morning.  I was instantly heartbroken and sick upon reading this news. How could it...

Another day of summer vacation and another little adventure for us.  Today it was strawberry picking at Nourse Farm.  It’s a cute little farm in Westboro, only about 15 minutes from our house.  The strawberry patch isn’t huge but it’s plenty big to get lots of good berries.  The morning was a mix of sun and clouds so it wasn’t...

Evan and Logan started swim lessons at the Whitin Community Center today…well sort of!  Evan rocked it and Logan wouldn’t even get in the water.  We did go back later in the morning for a toddlers class where I could sit on the edge of the pool with him and go in with him at the end of class.  Logan...

We’ve had an amazing start to summer vacation!  Yesterday was the first full day of vacation and we started the day playing school.  We then took a “field trip” to Purgatory Chasm and West End Creamery.  Today we went to the touch a truck event in Northboro then came home for slip n’ slide fun and a visit from the...

This week Evan had the honor of bringing Q Bear home from school with him.  Q Bear is a bear that each student takes home for one weekend and then journals about their adventures with him before returning to school on Monday.  Evan was so excited to have Q Bear home for not just a weekend but the entire week....

I’m trying something new tonight for blogging.  Not sure how it will work or if this will be the new format and I still need to figure out how to add captions but here are some photos from our Patriot’s Day adventure in western Mass. (Click on the word photos above.  The hyperlink was a bit tough to see.)

Over the last year, Logan has changed so much.  I don’t feel like I remember Evan changing so quickly or so much but I’m sure he did too.  Maybe I’m just more focused on it because I don’t have a little one coming along behind Logan and because I know he is the last one.  Here are a few of...