Thoughts at the end of this trip
Our two week trip to visit extended family is over. We’re at the airport waiting for our first flight toward home. If our second flight, which was pushed up and...
Author: noemikjames
Shem Creek + Botany Bay
On Thursday my nephew has a well visit scheduled in the middle of the day so we had keep our morning activity short. We went to Shem Creek, where many important...
Charleston! Downtown + Bee City
We arrived in Charleston on Monday night after two very short, uneventful, on time flights (and a surprisingly enjoyable trip to a random sculpture park in St. ...
Up and down days
My husband returned home Friday night to find the cats in bad shape. Tl;dr – a lot of clean up was required and Panther was hissing at Serval, who has a b...
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...
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 ...