CafeTeria (Tres Chic!)

Last Sunday Mo, Katharine and I decided to get brunch together before Mo headed back to Rochester. We chose CafeTeria on Newbury Street and it was the perfect choice. A great bright and airy atmosphere and really delicious food. Simple, but with a touch of fancy.

I was too busy eating my chocolate chip buttermilk pancakes to take a picture of them, but trust me, this place is a winner.

Highly recommended!!

CafeTeria. 279a Newbury Street. Boston, MA 02116

fun weekend!!

What a fun time I had last weekend with some friends from HWS! Mo came into town from Rochester, and a bunch of ’07 ladies from William Smith were in the Bean for Octoberfest!

Mo is one of my very best friends from growing up. We met when I was 12 (Mo was 10) at a pool party and we’ve been having good times together ever since. We spent our younger years dancing together, had some funny times and lots of laughs through high school, and when Mo came to visit me my sophmore year in college she decided with ME was where she wanted to be. We spent 2 awesome years together at school and 15 years from the start of our friendship we are still going strong. Bosom buddies for life, right Mosie?

Mo has a great group of friends from Hobart and I have been lucky to have gotten to know them so well over the past few years. I always have a fun time when I hang out with this group and this weekend was no exception. Saturday was spent at Harpoon Brewery’s Octoberfest followed by a delicious dinner and out for drinks at Cafe 47. YUM. Thanks for including me in the fun girls… I had a blast!

Eliza was there!! My fellow blogging buddy!!

Katharine came out to meet us!

Love ya, MO! Come back again soon!!!!

HOLY Hammock!

Look at this INSANELY HUGE hammock that’s now on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston. WHAT A DREAM!!!!!!
Check out the article in the Globe:
I need to go see this for myself sometime soon.
HAMMOCKS are a slice of HEAVEN.

My summer (in a clam shell)…

This summer flew past, right before my eyes. I can not believe how fast it went actually. So super fast– like those horses and jockeys at the Saratoga race track. Whew! Mostly, I was finishing up my coursework, but also, I was having fun.
I finished up the Summer Compass Program (a Lesley University/Cambridge Public Schools partnership) with an extreme sense of accomplishment. Mostly because I can’t even belieeeeeve how much paperwork I finished in only 6 weeks, but also because I really did feel like a reading teacher. :)
The other reading specialists I worked with (pictured above) were all AMAZING. I loved spending my days in the reading room with them, working as colleagues, and getting to know them as friends. I will miss this group and will have great memories of our crazy summer together!

I did also manage (although I’m not quite sure how) to do other summer-y things with other fabulous people in my life. LUCKILY, I have the documentation to prove it. Here is my summer in a nutshell….OR, more appropriately, a CLAM shell. Wish it could go on forever.

I made it to a red sox game!

I enjoyed a night out with friends at an HWS/SLU alumni event…


Hung out with Zan’s fam… ate a good amount of ice cream…


Went down to Greenwich to spend time with family…. got some pics with my Aunt Heidi’s chicken coup…

Fresh eggs, anyone?

Drank PBRs with the guys…


Loved me some EE and Aaron…


Becca came to visit and she cooked up a delicious meal!


I am the proud new owner of a FABULOUS FIT-


I took a weekend trip to the Cuse and spent most of my time in Skan-town… picked some corn, ate some veggies, hung out with my cousins, spent time with Tinsley, and got to see MO!!

GOODBYE SWEET SUMMER.
Goodbye!!