life

…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…

I am feeling my dear mother’s pain with summer schedule coordination this summer. Phew! She is always coordinating and situating and trying to figure out the details when we meet up together in the summers, and it takes a lot of work with a family of nine kids! So each…

After school got out, we got the opportunity to join up with these girls in California a couple days after they got there: Loved getting to spend some time with them and have more windows into the pre-senior-year thing for them. We had a little home-family-church (complete with ice cream)…

Every now and again I start thinking about one of my kids and I just start crying. Is that weird? Is anyone with me on that? I know, I’m a mom and I’m biased, and I cry at random things sometimes. But there’s this feeling with my children that is…

I am going to see if I can start to stay a little more up-to-date around here. Like, let’s talk about what happened this last weekend. Started out with Lucy and I heading to Wisconsin for her doctor appointments. These mother/daughter dates are usually pretty awesome. I mean no one…

Isn’t the world amazing? Don’t you think that even when you’re in the grumpiest of moods, being out enveloped in it’s goodness can’t help but make you feel better? I have found that it sure does the trick on transforming a cantankerous teenager. And also her mother. On Saturday Lu…

February started off with a little post-birthday date to Sedona with this guy: We did four awesome hikes and I think I was smiling the whole entire time. Way more on that weekend date to Sedona back HERE. Got ready for Valentine’s Day: Lots more on that back HERE. It…

I’m just going to go ahead and start these “little things” posts starting from January and forget (for now) all those other months that I’ve missed. Gotta start somewhere when you get so far behind, right? So here we go. January started off with a New Year’s Day bike ride…

What would it be like to have all our life choices to make over again? Would we choose a completely different path? Would we stick with what we’ve got? That was the premise of the book we read last for book club: The Midnight Library. And although it gathered mixed…

Both of my girls both trudged off to school for the first time, together, in a long time on Monday morning. We have been in hybrid mode all of January, and they have been on opposite days so it was strange to have such a quiet house after they left.…