Category: Life

  • Road Trip to Wedding

    Beginning on July 10th we made a long trip… 4000 miles round trip through four states. We loaded up the car after church that Sunday the 10th and started the road trip to North Carolina for our middle son’s wedding. On day one we headed to Abilene to pick up our middle son and do…

  • One Wild July!

    As I sit here typing this post my youngest child, who is now 18, is boarding plane number 2 for today. He is headed home from a week at NOAC and a short visit with his oldest brother and family. I have a pot of beef stew going and will cut up a cantaloupe to…

  • Spring Break 2022… New Adventures Ahead!

    This has been an odd year for our local school district and for various reasons we were given TWO weeks for spring break instead of one. With all that time we opted to take two shorter camping trips with our break. The first week we had four of us and the second week we added…

  • WE HAVE A NEW GRANDDAUGHTER… and other less important news

    At 3:14am today we added our first granddaughter to the family! I don’t have pictures to share yet (except my private one that I won’t share from when she first met her mama). Everyone is doing well and now they are recovering and getting to know each other. I am ready to jump on a…

  • Oh The Places We’ll Go… Adventures with our Adult Children

    February has flown by! I know we have not reached the end but so much has already happened that it surely feels like it’s time for a new month. LOL I won’t make this long and tedious but I thought some of you (my long time friends around here) might like to see a few…

  • What Would an Analog Year Look Like?

    First of all, Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely holiday season. Mine was filled with a great deal of food, family, and a lot of game and movie nights. I cooked and baked and sat around in pajamas drinking coffee or hot tea with my kids. I actually had all my shopping…