The REAL end of volleyball for our family There is something pretty beautiful about being part of something bigger than yourself. It teaches you humility. It teaches you camaraderie. It teaches you to work your heart out to be a contributing part of the whole because you don’t want to let anyone down. It teaches…
I mentioned we skied like nobody’s business after Christmas. All but Lu and Abby (who were snuggled up inside), working our hearts out through the deep powder moguls, and even deeper gorgeousness. We had given the skiers ski passes for Christmas, and we skied 6 out of 8 days up in all that Christmas powder….
Before we get to our own Halloween festivities, let’s take a gander on over to what the big kids were for Halloween: Max and Abby were the guys from an old movie called Garden State, which I loved, because Dave loves that movie: Elle and Carson were bikers: Grace was a variety of things…a scary…
Welp, Dave and I are three days into our “bet,” he has given up soda and I have given up cookies for a little while (our big vices). So this is making my mouth water to see stuff like this: (The dough is the best part…the process of making the cookies is even better to…
I’ve been a little heavily focused on sisters around here lately with the sisters podcast (we just finished our online podcast launch party and it was so fun to be engaged with an awesome group of women, thank you for coming if you were part of that group!! We wish we knew a way to…
I know it seems like I’ve said “this is the end” like forty-two times, but you’ve got to admit, this volleyball journey has taken us on a ride! From thinking she was done after high school season to thinking she was done after club season to deciding to play in college, it’s been a journey…
I don’t know how to wrap up all these years of volleyball for Claire. I don’t know how to wrap up volleyball for our whole family for that matter. This sport has been such a big chunk of life for us around here. There have been years when it has felt like we have been…
Three of the five of us at home woke up on the WRONG side of the bed on Easter morning. It was grumpy city around here I tell you! Which, I must say, did a number on the two who weren’t already in bad moods. Which, of course, is not an ideal way to start…
I have been a little grumpy this week. Try as I might, I haven’t been able to wrangle these kids together for two minutes to let Easter sink into our hearts. Grace has been babysitting three darling girls, spilling into the house, spilling out again, (and we have LOVED it, having our house filled up…