The Skarin Family Blog

Each year the town of Millbury hosts the Chain of Lights.  It is an event where many local businesses host holiday activities for families to enjoy as they stroll through town on a Sunday early in December.  In the 8+ years that we have lived in Millbury, we had never attended until today.  We started with lunch at the Pizza...

Tonight while Bruce and I were finishing up dinner, the boys, who had already had dinner earlier, were upstairs playing quietly together.  At one point, I even commented to Bruce about how they were playing nicely together.  We could hear them but they weren’t being crazy and they weren’t fighting…so we thought! When Bruce went upstairs after dinner, this is...

I often run my errands with Logan while Evan is at school because it is easier with just one than it is with two, even when they are well behaved.  But I have been noticing that Evan often sounds disappointed when Logan tells him where we went or what we did while Evan was at school.  Today I decided to...

Our Thanksgiving celebration was a bit quieter this year than in years passed.  We started the day with the Macy’s parade as usual.  The boys weren’t super interested and I have to say I don’t blame them.  The entire first hour was just NBC promoting their own shows and Broadway musicals.  Unfortunately by the time we were able to see...

Today was Evan’s first day of his second year of preschool…Pre-K 4’s…and to quote him “It was AWESOME!”  He began the day by bounding out of his room just after 7:30 am, dressed and ready to go.  He and Logan watched the end of Henry Hugglemonster before heading down stairs for breakfast.  Evan was excited about his breakfast of Cinnamon...

Today we took a trip to West Hill Dam with Isabelle and TJ.  We stopped to see their new home in Whitinsville first and then spent a beautiful day at the dam.  We had never been before but it was perfect.  Quiet, clean, peaceful and small enough to keep an eye on the kids from one place.  The kids had...

Many Monday’s are spent catching up from the weekend (aka doing laundry) or preparing for the week ahead (aka going grocery shopping).  But not today.  Today was all about fun!  I ran to the grocery store quickly (aka on my own!) this morning before heading to drop off Bruce’s car for new tires.  I had the boys in the car...

We had a great day yesterday celebrating Logan’s 2nd birthday with a sports themed party.  For a number of reasons, we decided to keep it low key and it was perfect!  The weather was beautiful!  The 4 little monkeys and one lovely lady (Annalia) had lots of fun together…although I’m not so sure that anyone really played any sports…at least...

Logan turned two the day after we returned from a short vacation to Pennsylvania that included a trip to Sesame Place.  Needless to say, we were wiped out and didn’t do much to celebrate that day. With his party coming up tomorrow, we decided to do a bit of a birthday make-up today.  He opened a couple of birthday presents,...

What’s better than a trip to the blueberry farm on a beautiful, late July day with four little boys, two moms, a Gramma and a Grammy?  I can’t think of anything….can you?? Logan picked and picked but never had more than one blueberry in his bucket, and that was the one that I put in for him.  Every blueberry he...