Yesterday (the 26th) was a really chill day!! Which was fine by me. After all of the busy holiday stuff at home, packing, travel, early mornings, late nights, Christmas….it was nice to have our first full day in Toluca be a relaxing one. Everyone kind of slept in/lounged around much of the morning. It’s just… Continue reading A relaxed day
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas! Just like that, it’s the 26th already. Wow. We had a good day, albeit drastically different than any other Christmas in my life! The boys were mildly grumbly about the fact that it “didn’t feel like Christmas”. They didn’t not enjoy the day or anything, but they said… Continue reading Christmas Day + Coyoacán
Hola from Mexico; we made it! Travel to Chicago Even though I had mostly already packed in advance, I was grateful to have most of the day Saturday to get ready to go. Not sure where so many loose ends always come from, but I seemed to stay busy with misc stuff. We left home… Continue reading Travel + Christmas Eve in Mexico
Final Christmas prep, or lack thereof I'm mostly about as done with Christmas as I'm gonna be this year, for now. Well, almost. My Christmas cards still need to be addressed, but they are here and ready and I have stamps. It is actually sort of nice that some of the pressure is "off", in… Continue reading Wrapping things up… and something I’ll miss
Okay, yes, I said this was going to be a Friday series called Flashback Fridays. But come on. We all know that I am not an Organized Blogger who does things on a schedule. Most likely these past travel recaps will make random appearances whenever I get to them! 🙂 Without further delay, please enjoy… Continue reading Travel Tuesday: 2007 Honeymoon to Disney World + St. Pete Beach!
So, I had a little epiphany recently. Ever since I started posting my Travel recaps (when I started this blog in 2020), I have occasionally thought, "Oh... wouldn't it be neat if I had travel recaps like these from ALL of our trips as a family??" But we got married in 2007. From 2007-2020 is… Continue reading Flashback Friday series: Intro
Halloween is over, so Christmas is somehow on the horizon already. First order of business.... take down my Halloween stuff. Which is all definitely still up, including the orange outdoor lights. Eh, what's the rush. But I am feeling a small sense of urgency to get a move on in the Christmas department, because we… Continue reading Christmas ponderings
Saturday, October 7th We again had a dreary, slightly rainy morning on Saturday. The forecast was showing just clouds, but there did seem to be intermittent rain showers, too. Saturday was our last full day, so we were hoping to get out and see a few more local sights. By mid-morning, after breakfast, tea and… Continue reading Fall U.P. Retreat- Days 3 and 4
Friday, October 6 We stayed up pretty late on Thursday watching a movie, so we slept in until almost 8 a.m. yesterday!! Glorious. The weather seemed a little iffy and we weren’t in any hurry, so it was a slow, relaxing morning. Made tea and puttered around and I baked some cinnamon rolls for breakfast.… Continue reading Fall U.P. Retreat- Day 2
Coming at you today from the beautiful Upper Peninsula in Michigan! Ethan and I are on our highly anticipated mother/son fall retreat, which I planned and booked back in June. As in, before I realized I would have a new puppy in our house this week...... ha. Oh well, what is life without a little… Continue reading Fall U.P. Retreat- Day 1
GRATEFUL KAE 