Coming at you from O’Hare Airport… current view: Yes, they brought a fold up chess board. 🙂 It’s 10:33 p.m and our flight doesn’t leave until after midnight, so… I have time to kill. I had a request for how I packed all my stuff into a relatively small carry-on for a full 2 week… Continue reading A packing post (aka, how not to pack…)
No more work: YEE-HAW, vacation is here. I have been so busy getting ready for our trip, finishing work stuff, planning activities and checking the weather forecast (😂) that I kind of forgot the fact that a 2 week vacation means 2 weeks without work!!! I like my job a lot, and I fortunately don't… Continue reading Pre-vacay ramblings: work, packing, travel blogging and more
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
Hello! Didn't mean to disappear. Asher and I left Thursday night (at like 7:30 p.m., after swim practice) to head to Milwaukee for a few days. The 13+ State swim meet was held this past weekend from Friday to Sunday, and although he didn't have any State qualifying times yet for the new 13-14 age… Continue reading Catching up on a weekend away
In honor of the new month of March (aka the start of SPRING in my mind), I want to share the lyrics to a song that always feels like instant sunshine to me when I hear it. It also REALLY makes me wish I were a better salsa dancer, and that I could instantly transport… Continue reading Instant sunshine
It's kind of blowing my mind right now that it's MARCH tomorrow. I do not feel that February was my greatest month ever over here. I am not sure what happened exactly, but it feels like it slipped between my fingers. Never fear, I am not about to start rehashing all the ways I ended… Continue reading A Monday at the end of February
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
After Tuesday's post lamenting how I have not been keeping up with life right now, I am happy to say my week turned out pretty good overall. Strangely enough, I think the weather + the boys' two no-school snow days actually helped. The unexpected days off meant that I did not have to follow their… Continue reading Friday report
I'm excited to share my latest "tracking" obsession.... haha. You all already know that I like to track things in my planner. And reading is no exception. On each monthly Habit Tracker page, I keep this little section down at the bottom. The dates are at the top, so I can correspond a "dot" to… Continue reading A Book Spreadsheet + Book Notes
As I've alluded to in other recent posts, probably ad nauseum at this point, I've been a little on the overwhelmed side lately. I'm sorry to bring it up again. But when I woke up this morning at 4:10 a.m. to the sounds of a windstorm outside my window, I was laying in bed thinking… Continue reading Keeping Up
GRATEFUL KAE 