After Halloween on Friday, we've had a fun and very enjoyable weekend! My parents arrived around 4 p.m. on Friday and stayed until ~11:15 a.m. today (Sunday), so we had a nice chunk of time with them. They came with us to Ethan's big Sectional Final soccer game at 1 p.m yesterday. Unfortunately, the weather… Continue reading The rest of the weekend
And here we are, 2 months to the end of 2025! What. We had a super nice, low-key Halloween. Very different from years ago, but still nice. Our family tradition for Halloween is that I make chili and we have salad + French bread + Halloween cupcakes (or, cake, if you forgot to buy the… Continue reading November already!
Well, I went to write my October Recap and realized that I never wrote my September Recap! I can't have that!! I have not missed a single other month. I was going to attempt to combine Sept and Oct but as soon as I started I was like, nope. Who am I kidding. I don't… Continue reading September 2025 Recap
First of all, thank you for such amazing and robust comments on my travel hacking post the other day!! I can see that it's sort of a "polarizing" topic, with people having quite strong arguments for and against it. I haven't had a chance to respond to all your comments yet, but I will soon,… Continue reading Tuesday randomness
There's been a lot of talk lately "in the world" (or at least, my world) about travel hacking and credit card rewards and ways to optimize these things to save significantly on annual travel expenses. It is very impressive what some people seem to be able to do with this! From afar, it definitely seems… Continue reading Travel hacking…this feels like Costco to me…
Sunday, October 12 Looking back to Day 4, you'll remember that Sarah and I closed down The Library pub on Saturday night. 😅 As such, we were looking forward to a lazy Sunday morning. We'd been pretty busy and active so far, and I think we both liked the idea of a little time to… Continue reading Days 5-6 Nova Scotia: Medford Beach!!!, winery lunch, more fall fun and goodbyes…
Argh, I still have not had a spare second to sort my final Nova Scotia pics and get that post up. BUT I WILL! Because the last days were incredible and deserve all the attention too! So please stay tuned... hopefully soon...😫 (Promise you won't skip it just because it's late!!!) It feels like so… Continue reading Some days in the life
for a real time update. I still have 2 days left to recap from the Nova Scotia trip (well, 1 full day plus our departure day, which still included some fun bits!), but that is not happening today. I do have a couple minutes though, so I thought I'd just pop on quickly for a… Continue reading Interrupting your regularly scheduled programming…
Saturday, October 11 Saturday was Sarah's first full day in Nova Scotia, and of course Elisabeth had Plans for us!! I feel like this day ended up being the perfect mish-mash day, or, as noted in the title, an "amazing fall smorgasbord". I LOVE these types of days on vacation. Of course, it can be… Continue reading Day 4 Nova Scotia: an amazing fall smorgasbord!
Friday, October 10 I slept quite gloriously in my King sized bed and woke up on Friday to shower and get ready in my beautiful room. We had some loose plans in the morning, but the big ticket plan was picking up SHU from the airport!! And then, assuming her travel all went smoothly, we’d… Continue reading Day 3 Nova Scotia! SHU + Peggy’s Cove (and more)
GRATEFUL KAE 