I think after my lengthy blogging streak on vacation, plus some long “recappy” posts when we returned, I maybe hit a blogging saturation point, or something. Sorry for the radio silence all week!
I guess I felt like I didn’t have anything too significant to say. Mostly though, I was just busy with work and it didn’t really fit in.
I miss blogging when I don’t do it, though. I’ve been feeling a pull to write some shorter, casual posts again. I’d been mulling over the idea of doing a daily blog challenge in May, much like NaBloPoMo, but forcing myself to keep the posts quick and shorter (<500 words).
IRONICALLY, Jenny posted yesterday that she’s been in a little rut too and is embarking on a project to post daily in May! Perfect, Jenny and I can team up and be the unofficial leaders of: MayBloPoMo. 😆
Let’s see if I can do better this round than actual NaBloPoMo when I was a flunkie. lol.
The big event of this week was that we toured the University of Wisconsin- Madison on Wednesday with Ethan!
It was nice. Maybe a bit anticlimactic for me, since I went there, but there have certainly been changes since I was there. (This month marks my 20 year college graduation anniversary!) Also, it was wild to be there with my OWN SON almost college-aged?!
Ethan liked it! He didn’t actually say a lot. Weird for a 17 year old boy, I know. Ha. It may have been a little anticlimactic for him too. He was like…. ‘I’ve been on this campus a million times’…. He did grow up in the Madison area.
At first he didn’t even really see the point in doing an actual tour. But I encouraged it, and I think he was glad in retrospect.
I can’t quite feel out his overall thoughts right now. He was very smitten with Marquette University in Milwaukee AND I think he may feel like Madison is maybe too much of “same old, same old” (again, having grown up here). I get that.
Marquette is private, Jesuit, more of that “family” feel, mid-sized, plus has the urban thing he wants. In many ways I could really see him there.
But, he liked a lot about UW, too. And Madison is awesome. I guess we shall see!
I didn’t get pics of the iconic parts of campus really… it was a group tour. Didn’t want to be the weird mom….
We had lunch at State Street Brats afterwards, classic campus spot. 😉
I’ll close with a few words of inspiration (cleaned out inbox and saved these from James Clear’s newsletters):
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
“If your body could vote on your daily schedule, what would it immediately veto?“
Daily Gratitude:
I am grateful for some tasty, healthy meals this week:
ground turkey/spinach/ sweet potato
GRATEFUL KAE 
I’m glad there’ll be more posts from you and Jenny this month! I can totally understand wanting to be in a different environment for college versus going somewhere you grew up. It sounds like Marquette might be a great fit. I love the post about what parts of your schedule your body would veto.
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