Cambridge Mom’s Blog

On the way home from school yesterday, I asked Tiernan what she liked most about her class. “My teachers,” she said. “Because they are so nice.” For a kindergartener, I could think of nothing more important.
My daughter attends Fayerweather Street School. Her teachers, Meg and Kate are not only “so nice”, they are creative, […]

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I went out to dinner last night at East Coast Grill (soooo good- the mahi mahi is to die for!).  It was a beautiful evening, and I wished so badly that they had roof top dining. I went to school in Boulder, CO, and the most popular restaurants had roof top dining… at least for […]

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Hi there, my name is Maria, and I’m a Cambridge Moms Blog shirker! I am going to write to you VERY SOON all about the wonders of taking vitamin B complex. At risk of sounding like a sales rep, you all need to run out and get this if you aren’t taking it already. I […]

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The Times had a great article on natural cleaners — nothing new, in fact quite the contrary… baking soda, vinegar…

I do suppose all those women (in the lovely Times photo) all wore green intentionally… It does all have a distinctly bourgeois feel to it –
“While it is deeply serious about persuading people to consider alternatives […]

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I know it seems a strange time to be thinking about school searches. I think most people start seriously looking at elementary school in the Fall– for starting the following Fall. Well, call me slow, but I’m doing it now– for this Fall’s enrollment. In March, we found out where hubby will be […]

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I just took my kids to see Nim’s Island this past rainy Saturday at the Arlington Capitol Theater. Well, the movie was alright– not as much adventure as I was hoping for, but the scenes of Nim swimming through the water with her sea lion buddy were pretty cool for, um, the children.
Though I don’t […]

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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
by Galway Kinnell
For I can snore like a bullhorn
or play loud music
or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman
and Fergus will only sink deeper
into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash,
but let there be that heavy breathing
or a stifled come-cry anywhere in the house
and he will […]

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Just learned about The Great Parks Pursuit, which launches tomorrow! I’m truly disappointed that we won’t be able to do the camp-out on June 7th, which sounds like a reasonably painless way for us to get over our jitters about camping with the kids for the first time….
Sounds like the DCR is taking on the […]

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Hey all — looks like the Harvard Square Mayfair was postponed last weekend until May 11th. Will be on for Mother’s Day, along with the Bigelow Cooperative Daycare’s Bigelow Fun Fair. More at www.harvardsquare.com
Also, the Newtowne School is having their spring fair on Saturday from 10-2pm.

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According to this boston.com article, Waltham-based Salary.com has calculated that those of us who perform “mom job functions” full time do work commensurate to $116,805 in the “job world,” down $21,000 from last year (the hit apparently came from a realization that most families are on the small side and therefore comparable to smaller companies […]

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When my son was born 6 years ago I was desperate – desperate for sleep, desperate to get out of my house and desperate to find out if there was anyone else that was as lost, as overwhelmed and as amazed by this experience as I was. Luckily, I discovered a new moms group […]

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