Author: noemikjames
Spoke too soon
Last night (after I wrote and scheduled the previous post), my friend called to tell me she tested positive for COVID. She has been with us at the KOA for the f...
Off we go again!
Today we leave on our final trip of the summer. This is our last minute trip to Maui, which we made because we were invited to spend a week with friends in a la...
Time is a flat circle
We’re at the KOA. It feels strangely like we never left. Being here last year was our attempt at normalcy. Our kids had been in school for 10 days the whole sch...
Sunday Get-Shit-Done-Day
We got home at 1:30am on Friday morning, after over 13 hours of flying and 17 hours of traveling. My husband and kids slept some on the second flight from New Y...
London Day 8: Terrible Thames Tour + Museum of London
We left Monday and returned Thursday but our trip was only eight full days because of the length of the traveling days (and losing time on the way there). That ...
London Day 7: British Museum + Soufflé Pancakes + Hamley’s + British Library
Our penultimate full day in London was packed full with specific experiences for each member of our family. The British Museum was one of the places on my “must...
London Day 6: Hyde Park + V&A Museum + National History Museum
We met my sister, her partner and their dog at Hyde Park on Monday morning. They told us to meet at the “playground at Hyde Park,” and what they meant was the D...
London Day 5: Run + Chiswick House + Design Museum + BBQ
[NOTE: The WordPress app is having some issues and sometimes when I publish I see the posts in my RSS feed or in my email (or both) but then I don’t see them on...
London Days 3 + 4: Tower of London and Brighton
On Thursday night, after Harry Potter, my parents kept the kids and my husband and I went out to dinner with my sister and her partner for my husband’s birthday...