Balent Times

I took the kids strawberry picking this morning at Boone Hall Plantation.  We got three big buckets full and plan to eat strawberry shortc...

This year our annual trip to the Boone Hall Plantation Pumpkin Patch happened to be the morning after my 40th birthday party.  Although a ...

It's strawberry shortcakes for dessert tonight! 

Trent's sister bought some Greek bread in Tarpon Springs and cut the bread into equal parts for each of her siblings to take home.  Sh...

We went and saw the Festival of Lights on James Island for the 4th year in a row.  It's become a little family tradition and each year...

Today we took the kids downtown Charleston to do some holiday window shopping and to check out the amazing train set displayed in the pres...

Today I ran my 3rd Turkey Trot in Charleston.  For the past three years we've celebrated Thanksgiving the day before so that I can run...

This holiday season has been crazy busy but we still managed to squeeze in the annual tradition of seeing the Holiday Festival of Lights on ...

Last Saturday night we hosted a sleepover for a small army of kids and I had the brilliant idea of keeping them busy by building gingerbread...

The annual "Get over there and pretend you're hanging an ornament on the Christmas tree and I'll take your picture.  No, make ...

We took the kids to see Santa last week.  Rya asked for "housekeeping" and Santa said, "What?  Ice skates? You want ice skate...

This is the first year that we did advent calendars.  We usually just do the  paper chain for our Christmas countdown but this year we dec...

The kids drafted their wish lists for Santa and mailed them to the North Pole.  Currier wants Wii, Wii games, Legos and chocolate covered ch...

Currier has been losing sleep over the fact that we don't have a chimney and fireplace for Santa to enter our house on Christmas Eve.  I...

I suppose its become a tradition in our house to celebrate Thanksgiving the night before... So that we can wake up early on Thanksgiving an...

Today is il Giorno dei Morti , Day of the Dead—an Italian celebration of remembering our loved ones who have died.  Since Currier is Sicilia...