Category Archives: Raising the Beans

Adventures in Dying Brown Eggs for Easter

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Our youngest will be five this fall and I’m pretty sure that I have never dyed Easter eggs with her. I have photographic evidence that I’ve done this with the older three, but Little Lulubelle has gotten the short...

Lunch with my brother at Ukiyo Bar

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During the second week of my brother’s first visit to Dublin, he stayed in the city centre with his girlfriend and we would meet up during the day or evening depending on their plans. On the Thursday of the...

Mid-term break

Leftovers turned into sushi rolls.

I am sitting in my kitchen, a luke-warm cup of peppermint tea perched shockingly close to my laptop, staring at my eight year old daughter. She is telling me that she feels barfy, looking pitiful and waif-like, wearing a...

Out of the trenches of motherhood

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It is true when people talk about early childhood as this crazy time in your life. A time when you don’t remember if you’ve showered or remembered to drink the coffee you poured hours early. Children stand in the...

Skipping Stones in Wicklow Town

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For the Easter holidays, my mother-in-law came for a visit from the U.S. She came last year during the same time, and we had a grand time walking around with the kids and visiting different nearby sites like Newgrange...

Dublin Zoo

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We went to the Dublin Zoo the first time during our first summer here in Dublin. Without a car, it was a trek that included riding up the Green Luas, a walk across the city centre, getting on the...

A little Christmas Magic in Dublin

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Christmas in Ireland is an especially festive time of year. Without our American Thanksgiving to break up the long, dark winter stretch between Halloween in October until Christmas at the end of December, there is a long buildup to...