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
I'm a little cranky today. I wish I had the rest of the week off now, but I don't yet. Why am I cranky? No particular reason really, but here are some musings that have been rolling around in my head. Reason #1: In general, I think I'm just feeling drained. Things are fine, and… Continue reading A-not-at-all-festive post
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
This has been a pretty swim dominated weekend so far. Friday night Asher and I attended the high school swim meet. His best swim friend is a year older and already in high school, so we went to watch him swim. It made Asher very excited to do HS swim next year!! There is a… Continue reading A swimming weekend and Christmas challenge check-in
1. I am loving all of the "Yearly Round Up" posts that are starting to circulate. They are so fun to read and give me great ideas! Unfortunately, I have not had a chance to sit down and formulate any of my own thoughts on any of these yet. A few post ideas I've seen… Continue reading Friday 5: long-winded exercise update edition (and other misc)
Monday night we had a fun family outing. I feel like generally speaking, 2023 is not the year that we are doing "all the holiday fun things". It's just been a weird year with the puppy and the bathroom remodel and the houseguests, yada yada. You all know, if you've been reading along. Plus, we're… Continue reading A fun holiday evening!!
There are officially 12 days until Christmas! I forget now who said it- maybe Jenny? No, I think it was Suzanne- but I 100% agree that the holidays seem to exist in two phases. Phase #1: It's way too early for Christmas music and decorations!! Christmas is so far away yet! Phase #2: Christmas is… Continue reading 12 Days of Christmas Challenge 2023!
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!
Hello hello! Happy Monday. This was a largely very nice weekend- shockingly "open", for our standards. We had no out of town visitors, Asher did not have swim practice, no one played soccer. The only events were a birthday party Asher attended on Fri night (but the Birthday Mom joyfully both picked him up and… Continue reading Weekend accomplishments/ why don’t I feel relaxed?
Darn it...despite my best intentions to keep blogging briefly and frequently after NaBloPoMo ended, I guess I really didn't. Today is Thursday, December 7th, and it looks like I've only posted 2x since the 1st. Work has been really busy this week. Lots of meetings, a project, and a last minute/ time sensitive "ask" that… Continue reading The past week, (mostly) photo edition
GRATEFUL KAE 