Writing from our hotel room in glamorous Brown Deer, WI. As I mentioned, Asher and I are here for 3 nights for Asher's State swim meet. We arrived last night (Thursday), later than ideal. He had practice from 5-6 and then they had a team dinner at 6:15 at Noodles.... (Like, why couldn't the team… Continue reading Swim meet/ mini-vacay!
Oh man, this month of February has just disappeared. I had a suspicion this would happen, so I guess I'm glad I had a super productive January. I feel like my ENTIRE month of February has been dominated by the end of the swim season, even though on paper, it doesn't look like that much.… Continue reading Just keep swimming…
Blergh, how has it been over a week since I posted?! Well, I guess I know why- I've had quite a lot going on. Let's catch up a little! New PCP Last Wednesday was the day Ivan left for Mexico early in the morning, so I was up early to drive him. Then I worked,… Continue reading College visits, swim, weekend, etc.
In the haste of my "week that went haywire", I fell a little out of touch with blogs/ blogging and never officially declared my intent to participate in Elisabeth's annual "Finding Joy in Gratitude" Collective (aka- FIGs!). Elisabeth's FIG logo When she posted the first week's summary this morning, I realized- hey, I can still… Continue reading FIGS Week 1
This time next week, I should, God willing, be in Ireland!! Eek! I feel like we still have a lot of gift buying to do, but not for the Ireland crew. Their gifts are, thankfully, all set (except for a couple of small easy things I just have to pick up). We decided not to… Continue reading Pasta dinners + PJ parties + other pre-holiday misc.
Asher is 16!! His birthday was Tuesday, December 2nd. The biggest and most exciting part of the day, was, of course, going to take his driver's test!! Fortunately we remembered to log in weeks ago to schedule the appointment on his birthday, which is necessary to do far in advance or the slots fill up.… Continue reading Sweet sixteen for Asher!
Ethan had his end of season soccer dinner banquet Sunday night. The coach is, ahem, very wordy, and the entire event was slated to run from 5:30 pm- 8:30 pm and it definitely went the ENTIRE time. Don't get me wrong, it was great. But also, long, and meant we got home at about 9:15… Continue reading A new woe: volunteering
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
Brrrr, fall is HERE in Wisconsin!! My weather app said it was 47 degrees out this morning! 😳 I cannot fully decide what I think about this. On the one hand, many Septembers we still get very hot weather in Wisconsin, and I don't always love that either, because it doesn't feel like "fall" then.… Continue reading Fall is here, back to school part 2, money tracking, etc.
New this year, both boys' high schools have implemented pretty significant new phone use policies. Not surprising, as this has been a hot topic lately. Technically they already had phone policies, sort of, though I think they mostly consisted of "don't be on your phone while the teacher is teaching". I remember reading in handbooks… Continue reading Back to school + new phone policies
GRATEFUL KAE 