This weekend, we celebrated my mom!! She turned 75 on Friday!! a little blurry but I love this pic! 75 feels "big". Not gonna lie, 75 also sounds... kinda old. I remember when my parents turned 60, and I thought that while 60 was "older", it definitely wasn't old yet. In my mind, I guess… Continue reading A celebratory weekend (*with an unexpected darker turn in the post…*)
*This post is part of my Travel series going back to recap some of our past (pre-blog) trips. Today I'm covering our time in Durango and Silverton, Colorado, in August 2019. The boys were 9 and just-turned-11, here. See other days from this trip here: Days 1-3 (Vail/Glenwood Springs), Days 4-6 (Moab, Utah), and Day… Continue reading Colorado/Utah Trip Days 8-9: Durango and Silverton, Colorado
I was cleaning up my Google Keep a little over the weekend (Google's notes app, like Apple Notes) and I noticed I have accumulated a small collection of quotes and ideas that I've never shared. (Side note: If you use either Google Calendar or Gmail, you already have Google Keep - it's built into the… Continue reading Monday: quotes catch up, on skipping “perfect”, and a recipe!
When I went to write a title, I realized the things on my mind today are basically a continuation of my last post: Fall is here, back to school part 2, money tracking, etc. I don't really have much to add about school, but I have more fall and more money tracking! 🙂 Fall Decor....… Continue reading More early fall, more money tracking
Brrrr, fall is HERE in Wisconsin!! My weather app said it was 47 degrees out this morning! 😳 I cannot fully decide what I think about this. On the one hand, many Septembers we still get very hot weather in Wisconsin, and I don't always love that either, because it doesn't feel like "fall" then.… Continue reading Fall is here, back to school part 2, money tracking, etc.
Storage Room: Before + After Okay, as promised, I took some pictures of my big storage room clean out! Sadly, I don't really have the best "before" pictures. Here's the thing- this storage room wasn't always a disaster. We moved into this house in 2013, and I'd say it spent the first ~6 years or… Continue reading Before/after + spontaneous fun!
Hi friends! Sorry about the unintentional week-long blog break. I was not away on a mysterious adventure, but really just here at home, staying busy with regular life! I love blogging and reading blogs, but sometimes Real Life > Blog Life. 🙂 Also, a big part of what kicked off the blog break was this:… Continue reading Blog break catch up
New this year, both boys' high schools have implemented pretty significant new phone use policies. Not surprising, as this has been a hot topic lately. Technically they already had phone policies, sort of, though I think they mostly consisted of "don't be on your phone while the teacher is teaching". I remember reading in handbooks… Continue reading Back to school + new phone policies
I think our lack of a buffer day after our Florida trip kind of snowballed and caught up with me a bit this weekend. As I mentioned, we got home last Sunday night and then dove right back into everything on Monday. While yes, I technically unpacked immediately, there were still things lingering around all… Continue reading A little snowball
July feels like it was forever ago now, but it was really just a couple weeks ago. The beginning of July feels like it was REALLY long ago now. Which is strange, because at the same time, the summer has simultaneously flown by and it feels like just yesterday that school got out. Ha. Basically,… Continue reading July 2025 Recap
GRATEFUL KAE 