Month: June 2020

In reading the collective advice of health care professionals worldwide regarding staying safe during COVID-19, one thing seems pretty clear: outdoors is better than indoors. Thus, with many indoor spaces closed – or open but terrifying – 2020 is the summer of the great outdoors. This is the year for hiking, camping, and enjoying nature.… Continue reading Call of the (Somewhat) Wild

It finally happened. The moment I have been waiting for since my children were born. The four Snyders successfully played an honest-to-goodness board game together last weekend. I’m talking about a real boardgame, too. This wasn’t Go Fish or Candyland or (god help me) Chutes and Ladders or any of the myriad preschool board games… Continue reading Bonding Over Board Games

Sometimes it only takes a small ray of sunshine to completely change your outlook on the day. Or on the entire summer. For me, that ray of sunshine was an email that arrived several days after I wrote about the daunting prospect of facing a COVID-19 summer with the kids. I checked my inbox after… Continue reading All It Takes Is Kindness – And a Pool