Halloween & Day of the Dead
Halloween 2023 is in the books. It was filled with firsts for us, and I had some big feelings about them. The biggest change was that we didn’t meet at my frien...
Category: Parenting & Family
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
Me being a curmudgeon at the start of summer
{I had titled this “ping pong thoughts at the start of summer” but by the end if felt I should change the title. And since the line-through-text for...
Lucky 13
I meant to write all week, several different posts, but now it’s Friday and part of each of them will have to end up here. {Or not, I ended up just writing one,...
But…
It was a nice weekend, but I it wasn’t long enough. I went to sparring and high belt class, but I felt nauseous after all the rolling we did so I didnR...