So much has been happening. Let me give you a quick recap and rundown…

So much has been happening. Let me give you a quick recap and rundown…
So, I am back from Summer Vacation so-to-speak. While I was gone, we suffered a death in the family and made a quick dash to New Jersey and got in almost 2 hours of salt, sand, sun and viciously brazen seagulls. It was a glorious and needed reprieve in the grief of losing my husband’s grandmother (which I will write about eventually). Then I jetted off to Phoenix, Arizona where the wind felt like a blow dryer but I had a great time communing with other science team coaches.
Last week, a friend had an unexpected stopover in Iceland. Saturday, neighbors around a fire pit were talking about the deals for kids in Aruba as we welcomed back a family that had been at Disney (while others up the block had just left). This morning, I sought out a travel agent friend for another friend looking to plan family travel to Greece or Europe. Suddenly it occurred to me that my own family had not been on a vacation in many years… Continue reading Travel vs. vacations
Just popping on to wish all of you a Happy New Year. Our family wishes you all things bright and beautiful in 2016. Here we are on Christmas Eve at one of the cleanest and best lit rest stops we’ve ever experienced on a road trip (Post Oak Rest Area on Interstate 57 in Salem, IL in case you’re wondering–and those are my antlers 😉 ). We look forward to sharing our year with you! ❤ (from left to right) BigGuy, Mama, Girly & Papa/Husbeau
Things that happened today:
Things that completely sucked today:
Things that need to happen:
I think that’s all the news that’s fit to print over here. It’s been a day.
And so it went… how does one actually do any formal learning when Papa is freely available? Ummm… they don’t. Srsly.
Papa was off last week and is off this week coming up. The whole period of time has a long weekend in Minnesota to break it up, and as I type, we are still not unloaded from the trip home. We got back with barely enough time to grab some dinner from Chipotle, then I ran to take BigGuy to choir while Papa took Girly to go get the dog from the kennel before her soccer practice.
Yeah. We’re home. And the school year has started.
I’m not really sure how much we’ll “do” this week with Papa around. But I’m thinking it’s going to be close to nothing. Last week, BigGuy did some math and foreign language and maybe a few other things, but not much.
Our annual trip to Minnesota also came with it’s share of challenges as the kids grow and enter new and unchartered territory. I’m wiped. And I’m bummed that I have books to return to the library before I’m done with them thanks to my floundering for the month of August; but c’est la vie, oui?