It started with rumors whispered at the Mendham Township Elementary School Halloween Parade this afternoon, and I confirmed it with Principal Craver himself after the parade. Mendham Township Elementary School Principal Michael Craver has resigned. He intends to pursue a doctoral program that will lead to greater opportunities within education in the future.
I’m disappointed to [...]
After Tuesday’s crazy snow storm, today was a great day for a Halloween Parade in the Roxiticus Valley, and Mendham Township Elementary School did not disappoint us. We were there to cheer on London and Maddie in their store-bought costumes as our two Sharpays from Disney’s High School Musical, and came away impressed with the [...]
Read More»Roxy won’t have to use the stapler after all…our terrific nanny got those “Try It” badges and petals ironed on and sewn onto London and Maddie’s Brownie and Daisy vests just in time… Rex, London, Maddie and I are off to see High School Musical On Stage! with London’s entire Brownie troop later this month [...]
Read More»It’s time for the Hexagon Players of Mendham Fall 2008 performance, and this year, they’re presenting Children’s Letters to God. It’s a musical based on the internationally best-selling book by Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall, with music by David Evans and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen.
Taken directly from the letters of young people writing to [...]
It’s been about eight months since Mariuca, the friendliest and most popular blogger in the blogosphere, befriended me through BlogExplosion. Now my day is not complete if I don’t stop by and read the latest post and make a few comments at Mariuca’s blog, Wishing On A Falling Star. Lately Mariuca has been serving up prizes [...]
Read More»It’s another cold, cold October morning commute on New Jersey Transit from the Bernardsville train station to our office in New York City, and again the Newark Star-Ledger is keeping me warm, or at least up to date on the latest happenings in the Garden State. In the Thursday H&G (home & garden) Today section, [...]
Read More»It’s another cold, cold October morning commute on New Jersey Transit from the Bernardsville train station to our office in New York City, and again the Newark Star-Ledger is keeping me warm, or at least up to date on the latest happenings in the Garden State. In the Thursday H&G (home & garden) Today section, [...]
Read More»While Rex and the girls and I have been fortunate to take home the Bay Head Halloween Parade’s ”Good Sport” trophy (for adults who get dressed up to march in the parade with their children) this year and in prior years, one family almost always gets the trophy for the best family, and this year was [...]
Read More»Here at Roxy’s Best Of…, we’re running a contest and ticket giveaway to celebrate the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival coming to the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, NJ this weekend — Friday, October 31st (Halloween) through Sunday, November 2nd. Since Roxy can’t make it to the event, the first Roxy’s Best Of… visitor to contact me using the contact [...]
Read More»Here at Roxy’s Best Of…, we’re running a contest and ticket giveaway to celebrate the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival coming to the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, NJ this weekend — Friday, October 31st (Halloween) through Sunday, November 2nd. Since Roxy can’t make it to the event, the first Roxy’s Best Of… visitor to contact [...]
Read More»It isn’t even Halloween, the leaves are still colorful on the trees, and as you can see, we have about two inches of snow on the ground here in the Roxiticus Valley!
Perhaps because of the wintry weather today, I received an e-mail reminder that the Music Ministry of Hilltop Church will perform its seventh annual presentation [...]
Last week, I had the good fortune to chaperone Maddie’s first grade class trip to Stony Hill Farm in Chester, New Jersey. The first graders, teachers, and a handful of moms and dads boarded the school buses in front of Mendham Township Elementary School at 9:00am on Tuesday, October 21st and made the quick trip [...]
Read More»This just in from Roxy’s e-mailbag…the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival is coming to the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset this weekend. Starting Friday, October 31 (Halloween) from 10am to 6pm and running through Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 5pm, the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival promises to be a great place to spend a day with the [...]
Read More»This just in from Roxy’s e-mailbag…the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival is coming to the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset this weekend. Starting Friday, October 31 (Halloween) from 10am to 6pm and running through Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 5pm, the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival promises to be a great place to spend a day with the [...]
Read More»We won, we won! While I do try to teach my girls that “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game,” it sure feels good to have that trophy in hand. As a family, we won the “Good Sport” award for grown-ups who dress up in the best costumes and march in [...]
Read More»Peapack-Gladstone invites all ghosts, goblins, witches, pirates and Disney Princesses to meet at Peapack-Gladstone Bank at 2:00pm for the annual Halloween parade. London, Maddie, Rex and I are down at our beach house to participate in our seventh annual Bay Head Halloween Parade, so I don’t think we’ll make it back in time to take [...]
Read More»It is eight o’clock on Sunday morning and we are waiting for London and Maddie to wake up at our beach house in Bay Head, NJ and begin the countdown to the 11:45am Bay Head Halloween Parade. Witches, goblins, ghosts and Disney princesses will start gathering on Mount Street in Bay Head, New Jersey, shortly [...]
Read More»As I’ve mentioned over on my Roxiticus Desperate Housewives site, I’ve been finding great new material and feeling quite productive on my recent train commutes from the Bernardsville, NJ, train station to our investment banking firm’s office in New York City. This morning, I picked up the Newark Star-Ledger on the train, and found two [...]
Read More»Since we moved out to the Roxiticus Valley from New York City’s West Village in October 2003, Rex and I have been saying that we need to take the girls to a local high school football game. Our local team, the West Morris Mendham High School Minutemen, has been good in past years but was [...]
Read More»Now, just because I’m home in bed and out in the blogosphere before midnight, don’t think that Rex and I didn’t have a blast tonight at the Joan Jett concert at the Mayo Center of the Performing Arts in Morristown, New Jersey.
We started the evening with a family dinner (Kraft mac & cheese for the [...]
Now, just because I’m home in bed and out in the blogosphere before midnight, don’t think that Rex and I didn’t have a blast tonight at the Joan Jett concert at the Mayo Center of the Performing Arts in Morristown, New Jersey.
We started the evening with a family dinner (Kraft mac & cheese for the [...]
Big night out for Rex and Roxy…we’re off to see Joan Jett & the Blackhearts at the Community Theatre (a.k.a. The Mayo Center of the Performing Arts) tonight. We’re having dinner with our good friends Susan and Mike, then leaving London and Maddie with them for “band practice” and a late-over with their adopted third [...]
Read More»Rex read me a grim weather forecast for the weekend from The New York Times earlier this evening, but we’re going down to our beach house in Bay Head come hell, Halloween, or high water. Right now Weather.com is forecasting rain on Saturday, but sunny and 60 degrees on Sunday for the Bay Head Halloween [...]
Read More»These days, it seems I’m finding all sorts of good material on my train commute in from Bernardsville, New Jersey, to New York City. I just picked up today’s Newark Star-Ledger to read an article about Max Ehrich, a 16-year-old Morganville, New Jersey senior at the Professional Performing Arts School in New York. Allison Freeman’s [...]
Read More»Pipsqueak a go go is a rock and roll dance party for kids. There’s a DJ spinning all sorts of cool retro music that kids and grown ups enjoy. They also have bands, clowns, and the Devil-ettes: a troupe of 60’s style go-go dancers who do routines and teach the kids some cool dance moves. [...]
Read More»As I posted here on Saturday, it was a gorgeous autumn afternoon for the running of the 88th annual Far Hills Races at Moorland Farms in Far Hills, New Jersey, benefitting Somerset Medical Center Foundation. The serious fans of the Hunt, who come out every year, rain or shine or mud, had arrived hours ahead [...]
Read More»It’s a brisk autumn day in the Somerset Hills, and I am heading in on the train from Bernardsville, New Jersey to our office in New York City. As I waited to board the train this morning, I happened to see a poster at the Bernardsville Train Station for the upcoming Kitchen Tours of Somerset [...]
Read More»Boo! I posted a couple weeks back about our family’s trip to Alstede Farms in Chester, NJ to pick out our pumpkins for our annual pumpkin carving evening with our good friends Hope and Michael and their four kids. Friday was the big night, and the kids were all really creative with their carving designs.
London [...]
50,000 turned out on a great day for the Far Hills Race Meeting this past Saturday, October 18, 2008.
Here’s a shot from the second race.
Two different angles on the third race.
Good Night Shirt wins the Grand National!
The wait is almost over. Rex’s son, PostBoy, has been dating MathGirl since their senior year at Villanova in 2003, and our family really, really loves this girl. London and Maddie adore her, and we have countless pictures of our girls with MathGirl at our beach house in Bay Head, New Jersey. So many pictures, [...]
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