I like a lot of things about myself, but there are definitely some things I could do without. A big one: I am a worrier. And I perseverate on things. To the point that sometimes when I start going on about something, my mom will say point blank, "You are perseverating.... ". I really do… Continue reading Welcome to Crazy Town
Friday, March 25, 2022 Friday was our full day in Dublin, and unbelievably, our last full day of our trip (not counting the travel day home!). I was happy our flight into Dublin on Thursday was early enough to allow us a good chunk of time to start exploring, because ~1 1/2 days in Dublin… Continue reading Day 14: Dublin, Ireland and Day 15: DUB to ORD
Thursday, March 24, 2022 On Thursday we had to say goodbye to Rome. The boys loved Rome so much they were literally begging me to reschedule our flights to extend our stay. Ha! That wasn't happening, but we still did have a couple days in Dublin to look forward to. My parents were ultimately going… Continue reading Day 13: Rome to Dublin
I woke up at 2 a.m. when Ivan got up to leave for the airport. His flight was at 6 a.m., out of Chicago, which meant a very early departure time from home. YUCK. I am sooo not a fan of super early flights, but I guess on the plus side, they'll be in Mexico… Continue reading Travel: me vs. him
Tuesday already! These past few days were a blur. The weekend was highly dominated by Asher's swim meet both Saturday and Sunday. But first, on Friday night we still squeezed in our date night: Switched it up from nachos and got a big quesadilla to share instead! Neither macro friendly nor low carb, but, delicious.… Continue reading Weekend snapshots + shoes for Costa Rica
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 This was technically Day 3 in Rome! If you back up to Day 11 (see here), you'll remember that the previous day was full and long. So, our morning on Day 3 was a little slow moving. That's okay! We are often not the quickest moving family in the mornings on… Continue reading Day 12 – Rome: Pantheon, Victor Emmanuel II Monument and the Vatican Museum
*Backing waaaaay up! The "print your blog to a book" site I use is having a sale, so I am going to try to hammer out my remaining few spring break recaps ASAP!* Tuesday, March 22 Our first full day in Rome! (See my Travel page for all the recaps from our 1st week in… Continue reading Day 11- Rome: Colosseum, Roman Forum/ Palatine Hall, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps
Ethan is home safe and sound! 🙂 His group flew in last night fairly late and we had to pick him up at school at 11 p.m. The 8th graders didn't have to go to school today, but I still had to get up early and get Asher off to school and then work and… Continue reading Home from D.C. and pre-Halloweening
It's been very fun receiving updates from Ethan this week! Their time in Philadelphia is over- they really just had Sunday and Monday there. They took a bus to D.C. later in the evening Monday night. Tuesday- Thursday they are in D.C. I got a BUNCH of pictures yesterday- they toured the National Shrine of… Continue reading Chronicles of an 8th grader- Philly done, on to D.C., and cell phones
I wanted to write a recap of our mini fall getaway last weekend to Wisconsin Dells! We stayed overnight just one night, but spent most of 2 days there. October 15th, Saturday: We had gone to that UW Badgers hockey game Friday night, so we were a little slow moving on Saturday. The idea was… Continue reading Mini-fall getaway recap: Wisconsin Dells
GRATEFUL KAE 