Last week, I had the good fortune to chaperone Maddie’s first grade class trip to Stony Hill Farm in Chester, New Jersey. The first graders, teachers, and a handful of moms and dads boarded the school buses in front of Mendham Township Elementary School at 9:00am on Tuesday, October 21st and made the quick trip [...]
Boo! I posted a couple weeks back about our family’s trip to Alstede Farms in Chester, NJ to pick out our pumpkins for our annual pumpkin carving evening with our good friends Hope and Michael and their four kids. Friday was the big night, and the kids were all really creative with their carving designs.
London [...]
Our family never lets the Fall season slip by without a trip to Alstede Farms in Chester, New Jersey. When we first moved out here in October 2003, we invited our best friends from New York City’s West Village to come out to see how country folk live in the Roxiticus Valley, including pick your [...]
London and Maddie are likely to miss out on what looks like a good time, since we’ll be headed down to our beach house in Bay Head, New Jersey for the Bay Head Halloween Parade, but for those of you sticking around the Greater Roxiticus Valley (Mendham, Bernardsville, and Chester, NJ) for the weekend, check out [...]
Is it wrong for me to wish for rain in the Roxiticus Valley next weekend so that Chester’s annual Harvest Celebration/Pet Costume Contest and Parade, scheduled for Saturday, October 11th and Sunday, October 12th will be rescheduled for the rain dates — Saturday, October 18th and Sunday, October 19th? Our family is headed away on [...]
Since we moved out to the Roxiticus Valley from New York City’s West Village in October 2003, Rex and I have tried to find all the best “country” kid stuff for London and Maddie, particularly when it comes to having fun outdoors. The girls weren’t very big when we first went apple picking at Riamede Farm in [...]
The bad weather this past weekend prevented a trip to our beach house in Bay Head, New Jersey, and the on and off rain kept us indoors most of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We did, however, manage to get out on Saturday afternoon for lunch at Redwoods and a visit to Country Nursery in Chester, [...]
