Who does what around here (a post about our division of labor)
It’s a quiet Sunday morning. It’s 9am, but no one is up yet except the cats. The 11yo is with his grandparents and the 14yo is still asleep (as are ...
Category: Marriage
Five on Friday: Progress made
Conversation with husband We never did actually write out our ideal weeks, but we thought about them enough to have a productive conversation about what we each...
Highlights from the past few days
It’s Thursday night, which marks the end of our three-nights-without-kids. It has been a lovely little stint in which we really did get to unwind and enjo...
Mid-Summer Emotional Meandering
My summer break is eight weeks long. I’ve been thinking of it in 2-week chunks. The first two weeks were camping and the KOA. The second two weeks were ou...
Build-a-weekend
This past weekend was a lot of prepping for the coming week. Also a lot of putting things together and taking things apart. I put together a cargo carrier for o...
Ping Pong Thoughts on a Sunday (to be posted on a Monday)
{Frequently I will write a post in the evening, but since I know it will post the next morning, I change the “todays/yesterdays/tomorrows” to match ...
A fun (and full) 24 hour date day
My mom picked up the kids at 4pm on Saturday and didn’t return them until 4:30pm on Sunday. After a bunch of “chilling at home on the sofa” da...
Attempting an alternating week schedule
This is a scheduling/planning post. If scheduling/planning is not your think, feel free to skip this one. So my daughter started boxing last month. This is grea...
I shouldn’t be surprised…
Well I guess it wouldn’t be a proper Thanksgiving if I weren’t crying on my bed, grappling with how to manage everyone else’s emotions when I&...
Post* Pandemic Holiday Reality Check
Our Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays have always only included grandparents, because we live close to grandparents and nobody else. I’ve celebrated Chr...