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...
Category: Connection
St. Louis: Highs and not so highs
It feels too hard to write a comprehensive post about everything during our almost 1.5 week trip to St. Louis. Instead I’m going to list some of the awesome and...
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...
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...
Bummer (or on not managing disappointment well)
Today I was supposed to go to my first book club with a friend. I have been plowing through the book all week, trying to finish in time, I was nervous, but exci...
No better way to spend a day
Rafting yesterday was super fun. I was so preoccupied with this trip being between two other trips, I ultimately decided to go because I haven’t seen these coll...
Trip recap (plus upcoming trips)
We will be doing a lot of traveling this summer, so I want to revisit what we did well, and not so well, on the last trip. WHAT WE DID WELL We definitely packed...
SF Pride 2022
This year was our daughter’s first Pride, and it was very important to this 12 year old who very much self-identifies as queer. My husband and I were very grate...
Extended Family Time Weekend
It’s been a busy weekend. Which is great because we are seeing my SIL and her family! And because the weather is lovely and being outside after so many da...
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...