(Continued from back our “Arrival in Venice” post back HERE.) Ok I’ve been trying to figure out how in the world to try to capture even portions of this. I mean how can you narrow down stuff like this? I don’t know. But here goes a try. Let’s go back to the end of Venice:…
“You can eat an elephant” is one of the seven “life lessons” my dad taught us when we, as a family, camped out in Oregon for a summer in order to build a log cabin. Yep, you heard that right, my parents lugged us all up to this spot in the middle of the Oregon…
When I was a young mom, frustrated up to my eyeballs trying to teach my kids to do their jobs (oh you young moms, that can be a thankless job, and I’m here for you!), a more seasoned mother gave me some good advice: She told me after a job is done, to take some…
I’ve been trying to get back on my “little things” bandwagon for a while now. I am so dang far behind that it’s overwhelming, so I’m just starting where I am (at least a tiny bit recent). So let’s go back to August for a minute where Lu and I found ourselves in Wisconsin again…
Ok, so here’s the wrap-up of our trip with our married kids to Europe (links to the other parts at the end of this post). After our evening at “The Hut” overlooking all that beauty, we visited Tal and Anita at their home the next morning. LOVED seeing where they live, (they had moved since…
My brother is one of my favorite people. Well, I have five brothers, and they’re all my favorites for all kinds of different reasons, but the one I want to talk about today is Tal. And Tal married a Swiss girl named Anita. And the two of them, along with their daughter have built a…
You know how sometimes a plan fails miserably, and other times things just seem to somehow fall into place against all odds? We got the latter scenario a few weeks ago when Dave and I, after much anticipation and planning and preparation, got to travel to Italy and Switzerland with our married kids. We climbed…