I had this scheduled to post earlier, but wanted to write something meaningful about Veteran’s Day before I posted. And here I am, totally late. The kids are home today and we’ve had the cousins over as per tradition when we have Mondays off, and Grace is on a student council trip and we are…
I have to start this post by saying thank you for all that buoying up yesterday, for all the kind comments and also the thoughts about finding personal balances with social media. I think the social media part just takes constant re-evaluation on such a personal level. And I’m so glad so many readers have…
Gosh I get to those “little things” updates at the end of each month (last post) and realize there are so many day-to-day things going on that I don’t have pictures of, and that I want to remember. So here are some “word pictures” (mixed with some real pictures too) of some of the latest…
The beginning of January found Dave and I sick in bed snuggled up in the “volunteer house” of OSSO in Ecuador on New Year’s Day (great way to ring in the new year), painting the graffitied walls surrounding that place (HERE), saying our goodbyes to those wonderful people we will always carry in our hearts…
Why does it seem to me like November was two years ago? Well ok, not two years ago, because that’s when Max left and that’s a really long time! But just looking through these pictures makes me realize how quickly you can forget. So glad to have at least some of all we did captured…
You win some and you lose some. Our first full day in the Galapagos Islands was pretty dreamy. The next was a little rougher in some ways…. But let’s back up for a second…As we planned out our OSSO adventure we realized we would be as close as we’d probably ever get to the Galapagos…
When you work at OSSO there are two different shifts. One from 7:30-12 and another from 2:30-6:30. Because we were there the week from Christmas and New Year’s there were some changes and parties mingled in, pretty fun to be able to join in on those things. Between shifts and celebrations we were able to…
Six of the nine kids in my family will be here in the desert for Thanksgiving. We will miss the three who live overseas and can’t make it, but we’re so excited to get this many. We can hardly wait. We have been working our tails off crossing Turkey Trot stuff off the list before…
Last week Dave, Elle and I lucked out and got to spend a couple days in one of the most beautiful spots I’ve ever visited. Here’s what we did with two days in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. We drove and hiked and rowed and oooooo’d and ahhhhhhh’d at all that beauty. A one-on-one…