It started with the tiniest of tickles. The quiet, polite cough you might issue as a soft, “Ahem.” Our pollen count is high right now, so I figured it was probably allergies. Took a home test just to be safe, and it came up negative. So I headed into the office as usual. Mid-inbox clearing,…
She did it. It took her about a year, but Kenzie talked me into a Yes Day. The idea of a Yes Day is that I can’t say “no” to anything she wants to do. To establish boundaries, we went in with a budget of $25, and I could say “no” to any unsafe situations…
Kenzie really wanted to try an Escape Room. For the last few months, she kept asking me to lock her in a room with clues. I mean, okay…I’m happy to lock her in a room and go about re-living my pre-parenthood life, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what she had in mind. So then…
Missed doing this for 1st grade, which is okay, as we were just trying to make it through the pandemic school year. The good news is, we made it! Kenzie’s really good at math, and enjoys word problems. She’s also so graceful and athletic. It’s a joy seeing her happily execute a perfect cartwheel, or…
On my second day in Door County, I headed north from my home base in Sturgeon Bay, up to Peninsula State Park. Along the way, I stopped off in Fish Creek for a quick geocache. Fish Creek is probably my favorite town, with all sorts of little restaurants and boutiques. Unfortunately, many of them were…
This post is NOT sponsored. I bought everything with my own hard-earned cash 🙂 Nordstrom holds such a special place in my memories. When I was a kid, you could go to Nordstrom Cafe, and help yourself to a cup of coffee for $0.25. And it was an honor box system. I remember going there…
Kenzie’s two favorites when she was a baby, was bubba and bun bun. I remember when we lost bubba once in Las Vegas, and we went EVERYwhere looking for a replacement, finally finding some at Nordstrom in Fashion Show Mall. From then on, we always had spares stashed everywhere. When she was old enough, she…
I just found this video, and it brought back so much. Our photographer, Ken Posney, and his wife, Hau Kaiminaauao, put this montage together, and it tells the story of our wedding day, from first look, to officially wed. Jeff and I had planned to take Kenzie back to Kauai with us to celebrate our…
Surprised Kenzie with a trip to Great America today. We met up with friends and had all sorts of fun. Roller coasters, corn dogs and claw games galore. What a great way to kick off summer!
On Tuesday, I wanted to explore Potawatomi State Park. The park is the eastern end of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, but since part of that trail was restricted, I decided to head for the Hemlock Trail, a 2.6 mile loop that wound through a beautiful forest full of beech and maple trees, with…
When I was in my 20s, I’d head off on solo camping trips almost every weekend. I was new to the Midwest, and low on funds, so camping was the best way to explore. I prided myself on being able to wrestle a six-person tent into place on my own. (It was on sale, and…
On Saturday, November 21, 2020, at the Holiday Inn Express in Shamrock, TX, smack dab in the middle of the COVID pandemic, I cast-on 56 stitches for a new pair of socks. I was on a solo cross-country drive, from Illinois to California, to surprise my mom for her birthday. I hadn’t seen my parents…