Sunday morning came early, as a bunch of little children were eager to see what the bunny had brought, and to find the dyed eggs he had hidden. The Easter bunny was still asleep when she heard them tromp down the stairs, and she had to come up with something clever to stop them in…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
Easter and Such
Rewinding a bit . . . The Thursday before Good Friday, some dear friends arrived, having completed an absolutely epic car journey to get here from our old town in North Carolina. (We really are quite far from everywhere down here.) We greeted them with a couple of glasses of bourbon on ice. In…
The weekend was a gift. Saturday – a morning hike down a wide gravel path through woods to a small bayside park. It is chilly. We walk over a boardwalk to the little beach. The sand is white, and the boys shift it into piles here and there while the baby snoozes in an Ergo on his father’s…
The Freezing North
We spent a week at my parents’ place. I worked two of the days – my firm has an office there, which allows me to extend our visits. The two days I worked were long and harried, but the rest of the time was not so bad. I worked a third day by billing the entire…
Post-Christmas Recap
In my second written-in-real-time-but-posted-days-later post, I recap our epic journey from the Gulf of Mexico to (practically) Lake Michigan and back: Another holiday season winds down, and we are back to a few days of calm before Mardi Gras gears up and spins us off into yet another season of joy. Christmas brought some happy…