First published in the Tri Town Transcript Jun 2, 2017 By Esther C. Baird We have reached the point in the year where I can’t stand talking about school. Why is there school in June? Who likes it? No one, that’s who. So I’m not sure why I thought it was a smart idea to…
Category: The Baird Facts
Wholly Noncompliant
First Published in the Tri Town Transcript May 19, 2017 By Esther C. Baird Look, I’m happy to try the latest and greatest nutrition craze. I mean, if for no other reason than I want to burn all of my cookbooks and serve them, coal-like, for dinner. Enjoy that, because I’m fresh out of ideas and…
A Good Walk . . . Soiled
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Apr 19, 2017 By Esther C. Baird Regular readers will recall that we recently added Moose, a Bernese Mountain dog, to our family. As you read this he is around 14 weeks old and is, in a word, a handful.
Party Like a Ninja
First published in the Tri Town Transcript on Apr 13, 2017 By Esther C. Baird Regular readers may recall that our youngest daughter celebrated her 10th birthday at Christmas with a surprise ear piercing. But her actual birthday was this past month. Ten is an age at which we allow our girls to have a…
Clinging to the Cuteness Factor
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Mar 27, 2017 I found myself standing in the frozen, slush mud. I stared down at my boots. They were untied. Also my long down coat had a hole in it that hadn’t been there the day before, and now fluff was floating out of it in a…
Borderline Control
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…
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…