Deciding to expand your family takes a lot of planning and hardly any luck for others. If you’re ready to go for baby number one or number four, some things can make the conceiving part less stressful. While we all have the best-laid plans, like our dream nursery, how we’ll manage our money as parents…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
9 Children’s Books Celebrating Soup
With the time change, it’s getting dark by 5:00 pm here in Boston. The nights are longer and colder, and it feels like we should all be in bed earlier, and for a longer period of time. Yet, this is also a cozy time. The oven now calls out to me to bake treats like…
Third Place Finish at the Father Daughter Mass Golf Tournament!
Tai and Ali Lee (Granite Links Golf Club) were solo third with a mark of 10-over 82. My daughter and husband played in their third Father-Daughter Mass Golf tournament in the Forward Division. She had been working at a sleepaway camp for five weeks prior to the tournament so she wasn’t able to work on her golf…
How to Prepare for the College Admissions Interview
Getting into college today is a lot different than it was even ten years ago. As colleges are moving away from relying heavily on standardized tests like the SATs and moving towards a more balanced and “holistic” admissions approach it’s more important than ever for your student to put their best face forward . ….
Foundation Year at Pratt
Not all Art Colleges offer Foundation Year as part of their curriculum. Foundation Year is the Freshman curriculum to explore and build different skills. Pratt and RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) both have a Foundation Year. I took two tours of Pratt Institute — one with my oldest and one with my youngest —…
Andrew Jackson Murdered His Native American General: Things They Don’t Teach You in History Books
“If the plantation owners of the South, Jackson’s people, were to have the land they wanted to grow more cotton, the Choctaws had to move,” I said. “And if you, Chief Pushmataha, were so against this move, you must be gone, out of the way.” from When A Ghost Talks, Listen by Tim Tingle …
My House is Featured in New England Home Magazine!
Peter Sachs is featured in New England Home magazine and he chose our renovation to highlight. It says: This project was particularly satisfying because it was for close friends who have a high level of design sense. To achieve the final design and create an open feel in the 1870s home, many walls had to…