Botanical Gardens + City Museum
St. Louis has a lot of really fun things to do, especially for kids. I’ve always been very grateful that there are so many choices for ways to spend the day whe...
Author: noemikjames
My favorite three days of the year
We’re back from the farm. It was so fun. Being there, with all my family, is the best. It’s truly my favorite three days of the year. We all just get along so w...
We made it!
Everyone made it to St. Louis. The kids and I got in at 3am after a delay in Minneapolis and my husband got in at 9am after a shorter delay in Chicago. By 3pm w...
Good news and better news
On Wednesday I got a negative PCR test and decided I was done worrying that I was going to get COVID. A negative PCR test six days after being exposed made me f...
Hitting bottom
Yesterday was a hard day. I cried in the car. On two different occasions. I was kind of a wreck. After I wrote the post on Monday evening, I did some stretching...
Neti pot drama (and travel workout recs?)
So I broke my brain with a neti pot. I’m not sure what exactly I did wrong but now, when I lower my head at all, I feel a searing pain across the back of ...
The wait
Lest you think, from my last post, that I’m capable of taking all this one como si nada, please know that I can’t. 48 hours in and my house is a dis...
One for the books
Well, today was one for the books. Without my husband the afternoon was an insane game of Tetris. But I made it work! – At 2pm I left to pick up my daught...
Silly me
I thought I’d be writing a post today about what I did and did not end up doing this week. Instead I’m writing a post about how my husband just test...
Retooling expectations
Yesterday was a success. The kids did great on the bike ride. They were shaky to start but they found their footing and went for it. They made it all the way to...