Saturday, October 7th We again had a dreary, slightly rainy morning on Saturday. The forecast was showing just clouds, but there did seem to be intermittent rain showers, too. Saturday was our last full day, so we were hoping to get out and see a few more local sights. By mid-morning, after breakfast, tea and… Continue reading Fall U.P. Retreat- Days 3 and 4
Friday, October 6 We stayed up pretty late on Thursday watching a movie, so we slept in until almost 8 a.m. yesterday!! Glorious. The weather seemed a little iffy and we weren’t in any hurry, so it was a slow, relaxing morning. Made tea and puttered around and I baked some cinnamon rolls for breakfast.… Continue reading Fall U.P. Retreat- Day 2
Coming at you today from the beautiful Upper Peninsula in Michigan! Ethan and I are on our highly anticipated mother/son fall retreat, which I planned and booked back in June. As in, before I realized I would have a new puppy in our house this week...... ha. Oh well, what is life without a little… Continue reading Fall U.P. Retreat- Day 1
The Packer game kicks off in 20 minutes, so I don't have much time. Just jumping on to say hola and give a quick weekend update. The weather has been BEAUTIFUL. Just beautiful. Well, yesterday and today, anyway. Friday night Ethan had a 4:30 p.m. soccer game and it was overcast and spitting a few… Continue reading A “it’s really feeling like fall now” weekend update
Fall beginnings... After an exceptionally dry/sunny summer, we are having some rain today. The whole vibe is "gloomy fall" and I'm kinda loving it. I went for my 7 a.m. walk in the rain (not so heavy I needed an umbrella, but I definitely needed a rain jacket): I haven't done any of my usual… Continue reading Rainy fall-ish day + improving B/L options
Labor Day is always the last summer hurrah around here, because the public schools all start today (the Tuesday after Labor Day). It's a little anti-climactic for us, given that Ethan started several weeks ago and Asher last week. But we had some HOT SUMMER WEATHER this weekend and it definitely felt like "summer". It… Continue reading Labor Day long weekend
It is now November, somehow, so I'm going to share my "Fall 2022" recap today. I shared my Summer 2022 recap here, and I enjoyed that format and putting it together. Fall is not technically over yet, but in my head, November kicks off more of "holiday season", to me. So, for me and any… Continue reading Fall 2022 Recap
I'm happy to report that my week has done pretty much a full turnaround. After spending much of Monday (okay, and part of Tuesday) sort of wrapped around the axle in a bit of a stress-induced spiral, I feel much better today. I credit this with the fact that yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) I decided to… Continue reading Better
First, I'm sure you're dying to know the outcome of my very scientific poll. Here are the results so far, from my overwhelmingly large sample size. 🤣 I find it pretty interesting that "podcasts or audiobooks" was the clear winner, and surprisingly to me- "listen to nothing" was the runner up! Not sure what it… Continue reading (Very) random Friday list
Some misc. things today..... 1- I read a short story about decision making yesterday: A psychologist gathered up 8 professional horse handicappers and told them he wanted to see how well they could predict the winners of horse races. Their test was to predict 40 horse races in four rounds. In round 1: Each gambler… Continue reading Information and overconfidence in decision making… plus other misc.
