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Highly recommend the Museum of Flight for watching the Blue Angels. Great views, no hassle. The museum is all geared up to handle the crowds and the event is really well-run. Tons of parking (YAY), lots of friendly staff and volunteers. The usual front parking lot is closed to cars and tents and chairs are…

My beautiful cousin got married, and we were thrilled to be a part of the celebration. Backyard wedding with a low-key reception, possibly the most laid-back and happy couple on their wedding day I’ve ever seen. It was perfect.

Everybody goes to the Liberty Bell, but is that enough for tiger mom? Took the kids on a 21-stop walking history tour through Old City.

Swedish flat-pack lunch date. I went in for a shower curtain, and I came out with… a shower curtain!

Waded through some 3,600 files (yeah, I do take a lot of pictures) and this is the last batch from Philly. I miss it already. Some marketing genius set up this photo op in front of City Hall and it worked, I could not resist. There’s a fun spray park just behind the sign too!…

One of Judy Blume’s Fudge books is set in Princeton, so we made a point of meeting up with our dear New Jersey friends at Princeton University. Beautiful campus, with a fountain that was just right for wading and catching up on the past dozen years or so.

Day trip to visit my cousin, who just moved to this swanky Inner Harbor high-rise. Last time I saw him he was 13! The kids loved the view from his 36th floor unit, then my cousin treated us to ice cream and a electric boat ride. Can you say funcle?

I love Buy Nothing so much. • Another mom took my four unused Pull-Ups, saving me the guilt of throwing away perfectly good pieces of plastic. • A complete stranger who works in IT came to my house to help me sort out my modem situation.  • The library has every book in the Magic Treehouse series EXCEPT…

Last photo dump from Virginia, saved the best for last: Colonial Williamsburg! Everyone I asked, “Have you been to Colonial Williamsburg?” The response was invariably, “Yeah, when I was a kid.” Now I can say, “Yeah, when I was 42.” There was a whole chapter in our 5th grade history textbook dedicated to Colonial Williamsburg…

IN MY HAPPY PLACE! I couldn’t stop smiling like a crazy person from the moment I walked in to the National Gallery of Art East wing and saw the giant Calder mobile in the atrium. My child is named for Calder, that’s how big of a fan I am. His work exudes joy and playfulness and I…