life

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.…

Yow, here we are for our 2021 snapshot of how life is right here, right now. Down to the four of us living at home. I think it’s pretty amazing to sit down and try to do a snapshot this year. Never in a million years would I imagine last…

Yep, going back to April for a minute. And I’m sneaking it in late on a Thursday night so it can fly under the radar a little because it is OLD news by now. But I love to keep all this stuff together so here we go. April was that…

I was a big slacker documenting Christmas. Not only here on the blog, but also taking pictures. (My kids would disagree, of course, because they think I always take pictures, but there are so many things I have decided to just document in my mind. Intentionally.) But here are a…

Welp, here we are on the brink of a new year. The sun is setting on the infamous 2020. It seems that many of us have been waiting with bated breath to say goodbye to 2020…good riddance to this roller coaster of a year, right? I agree in some ways…I…