First published in the Tri Town Transcript, March 11, 2017 By Esther C. Baird We spent the February break skiing at Mont Tremblant, just west of Montreal. Regular readers may recall we went there two years ago and that I was enamored by their poutine. I still am. I just can’t help but be extremely…
Author: Esther Baird
The Color of February
First Published it the Tri Town Transcript Feb 13, 2017 By Esther Baird February. Well, it’s a month in the calendar … I guess. It’s ski season, and that’s fun. Of course there’s my riveting attempt to grow Paperwhites, which has our family on the edge of their seats. But otherwise, February doesn’t have much…
Putting the Fun into the Freezer
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Jan 30, 2017 By Esther C. Baird One of the things that happens when you are part of a church, or any community group, is that people get sick and people have babies. Sometimes people have a baby and then get sick. Or, sometimes they have a baby…
Here There Be Needles
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Jan 16, 2017 By Esther C. Baird A few years back, I wrote about our eldest daughter getting her ears pierced when she turned 10. Actually, as regular readers may recall, it was a few months before her real birthday in order to surprise her. This Christmas, which…
Resolutions That Won’t Shatter
First published in the Tri Town Transcript, Jan 4, 2017 By Esther C. Baird You know that last week of school before the holidays. The kids have class parties every other hour and subsist mostly on frosted cookies and marshmallows. They are overly tired and hyper, which only serves to highlight that their parents are…
The Perfect Flawed Card
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Dec 8, 2016 By Esther C. Baird Regular readers may recall that, a few years ago, I suggested we have a Tri-Town-wide bonfire where we’d toss our shimmery, smiling holiday cards into the flames and be done with it. It’d be a community-wide holiday card cease and desist….
Play-ing it Calm and Cool
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 19, 2016 By Esther C. Baird It’s elementary school play season at Casa Baird. Both of our girls have always been part of the play, but this year, our fourth-grade daughter went from her previous obscure role as munchkin number three to the co-lead in the children’s…
Reuniting the past and the present
First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 7, 2016 By Esther C. Baird One day, when I was a senior in college, I watched two older women outside my apartment run towards each other. They squealed and hugged and jumped. My friend breezed by and laughed. “Look, there’s my mom! She’s visiting for homecoming…
Like Mother, Like Daughter
First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript Oct 24, 2016 By Esther C. Baird A long, long time ago, in a town far, far away (Beverly), I wrote about my brief fling as a soccer mom. Our eldest daughter, then 5, enrolled in the town league. She was little and cute and wore pink shin guards….
How to ‘Bear’ Back to School
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Sep 27, 2016 By Esther C. Baird Back to school is a tangled up time of year. What I want this time of year is to have it both ways. I want summer and school, freedom and schedule. Spontaneous lunches and bagged, home-made lunches. OK scratch that. I…