…and Amsterdam… Let’s go back to when Max, Lu and I left Nationals in Las Vegas (all about that HERE), to join the crew in Coronado (Dave stayed with Claire to finish up and they joined us a couple days later). We drove through some pretty hefty holiday traffic but oh boy, I loved having…
I am sitting here basking on the memories of all the hoopla surrounding celebrating the 4th of July. That is a good holiday in my book. We sat in church last Sunday…in California…our first Sunday back since Africa…all crowded in the same pew with my sister-and-brother-in-law’s visitors from Denmark (who we got to hang out…
We went to Coronado for the 4th of July. It was our second year making that trip which pretty much solidifies it as a firm family tradition…at least in our kids’ book. I honestly don’t know if they could have had more fun or been more excited if we took a trip to the moon….
We lucked out and got to spend the 4th of July in Coronado in California. Our friends have been going for years and have some serious connections to make that trip work. I think our kids quite honestly thought we had died and gone straight to Heaven. And to be honest, so did Dave and…
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: life sure does keep on changing! It keeps morphing into new scenarios and configurations endlessly. You can have things going for years and years and think “this is our thing!” And then, sure enough, life changes. Your baby starts walking. Your teenager heads off to college….
I had to snap this picture of my sister Charity the other night when we were walking through that fall wonderland up in Utah, twins in tow, her older boys running wild throwing the biggest rocks they could off of the side of the road in jubilant excitement: Because to me it was such a…
I know your family has a lot of traditions and routines. What traditions did you start when they were young? Or which do you wish you would have started? Oh the answer to this question could be very long and lengthy. Especially as I am in a time of life when I’m trying to hold…
I was just barely fifteen for crying out loud! Not sure how this happened! This beautiful little baby of ours with the big blue eyes: Grew. …and grew, and now she’s this girl who’s almost looking me right in the eye she’s getting so tall! I love this girl with all my heart. Fifteen things…
Games are one of my favorite things to bring people together. They help people get out of their comfort zones, get everyone interacting together at the same time as they create fun. So here’s a list of family reunion games. And of course, these games aren’t just for family reunions. Any time there’s a large…