The Skarin Family Blog

With the mild winter and the warm early spring weather that we had, it is hard to believe that this week was the first time that we spent anytime by Papa & Gramma’s pool.  Evan and I spent the day poolside on Thursday while Bruce was in DC.  It was a perfect day and Evan, while a little cautious, enjoyed...

What a beautiful night for an outdoor pops concert and an amazing fireworks display!  We joined the Kavanagh’s in Westerly tonight for Evan’s first real fireworks.  While we were driving there, we drove through several bouts of torrential rain but once we arrived, it was a beautiful night!  Certainly a wonderful family event that we will hopefully attend again in...

...when you have an empty diaper box? Being oh so silly and having so much fun!

Tonight we are heading to Westerly to go to a summer pops concert and watch some fireworks with Auntie Karin, Uncle Dan, Danny & Sean.  We are going to bring a picnic dinner to enjoy during the concert before the fireworks begin.  As part of that picnic, we are bringing sugar cookies.  I have had some leftover frosting in the...

Daddy is traveling in DC for work today and he called to check in and see how our day was going as I was getting Evan ready for bed.  Evan was quite excited to talk to Daddy on the phone!  He’s a natural! I think we may be in trouble when he is a teenager!

To celebrate Father’s Day, we started the day with waffles and bacon at home.  Evan helped Daddy open a couple of gifts and then we drove to down to RI to meet up with Papa & Gramma, Bumpa, Grammy, Uncle Dan, Auntie Karin, Danny & Sean for lunch at Mozzarella’s.  We had a nice lunch and then went back to...

It was 75 and sunny with a beautiful blue sky when we were preparing to leave our house today and head to the Aptima summer outing in Georgetown, MA.  We drove about halfway there and the clouds began to increase as the temperature dropped.  When we arrived, it was completely cloudy, with no promise of seeing the sun for a...

Today Evan and I attended Danny’s pre-school graduation.  It is hard to believe that Danny is already 5 and will be heading to kindergarten in the fall!  I remember sitting in the lobby at the hospital waiting for him to be born like it was yesterday.  The graduation ceremony was cute and Danny is quite proud of himself, as he...

Back in April, I purchased a Living Social deal for Zoinks Fun Factory in North Oxford.  It was a BOGO admission for two kids and two adults.  Earlier in the week, when I saw it was going to be another rainy Wednesday, I asked Auntie Karin if she and the boys would like to join us for some fun.  (Poor Auntie!...

Thursday night we were working on getting the last few things in Evan’s room ready so that we could transition him into his big boy room over the weekend.  When he saw us getting things ready, he decided he wanted to sleep in his new room that night.  So we finished making the bed, putting the rails on and setting...