Headed back from Austin a day late… because as the title gave away, the very end of our Texas trip was literally spoiled by food poisoning. 😩😩 Looking on the bright side…. 1) It hit me Sunday morning around 6 a.m…. Which was to be our departure day anyway (so, no further plans to be… Continue reading It’s all fun and games until you get food poisoning
My very busy week is going okay. There have been a couple of lucky breaks that opened up some time, namely Ethan's friend's mom driving him to the Spanish placement test yesterday. (He said it was "easy", so, hopefully that means he did well??? Guess we'll find out in about 2 weeks when results come… Continue reading Wednesday misc.
It's officially May, which means we have entered Ethan's official last month of middle school. This also means this is the LAST month of the boys attending the same school. (Possibly forever, because there's a very real possibility they may actually attend different high schools.) This makes me a bit sad! I am so used… Continue reading Looking ahead: summer, changes, etc.
Eek, sliding into this upcoming week with a little trepidation combined with some excitement, too. My to-do list is kind of bursting right now. We leave for Austin, TX super early on Thursday, and there's just a lot happening before then. On the docket: haircut- Monday over lunch hour hot tub service appt- Tuesday work… Continue reading Busy busy + dress code on a trip
Blech, I need a do-over of yesterday. It was not my best day. Nothing terrible happened, but I was just off. Actually, I have felt a bit off all week. My brain has just been so DISTRACTED!! I don't know. Too many things on my mind I guess, and then it ends up that I'm… Continue reading In need of a do-over day + driving fatigue
I need some help! Google and searching is not really giving me what I'm looking for, so I figured, why not turn to good, old-fashioned people? My question: How do you back up your blog posts? Background info: My blog started on Blogger in spring of 2020. Then I transitioned it to a self-hosted WordPress.org… Continue reading Blog friends: I need advice!
I've said here many times before: I'm not a great "meal planner". Our dinnertime structure is not actually very structured, in large part because our evenings are usually all over the place. It's currently rare for us to all be home at the same time to eat, and if we are, then probably no one… Continue reading April meals + (not) eating dinner together
I just realized we got home from our amazing Costa Rica trip a whole month ago already now!! How time flies. I've been wanting to write a post outlining a few things I worried about before our trip. Spoiler, none of them happened. But I did get myself fairly riled up a time or two… Continue reading Things I worried about in Costa Rica that didn’t happen
I just filed away my first COMPLETE week of time tracking! I stuck to it diligently, and it really was easy and enjoyable. I've decided to keep a whole sheet for each month, with then a separate tab for each week within that. (See below.) Then, if I keep doing this, I'll save them in… Continue reading One week in/ D.I.T.L time tracking
It's been an enjoyable weekend so far. Yesterday I NEEDED some open time to catch up on some things- I had been persistently sort of ignoring my personal email inbox honestly since we got home from Costa Rica. I mean, I had dealt with the must-dos, but it had just really accumulated and needed attention.… Continue reading Pondering: G.R. and extreme diet changes
GRATEFUL KAE 