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…
2014 Christmas
I wrote a few blog posts through the week, but saved them in a word doc on my desktop, given the chaos of the travel we undertook this holiday. I’ll post them now that we’re back home! Here’s the one from Christmas Eve, written in the car on the way to Nashville: We are seven…
All is Merry and Bright
Last night we had planned to head to the botanical gardens and see them all lit up for Christmas, but Lower Alabama has been dumping rain for days, so we abandoned the plan. Instead, we found a drive-through light show set up in the parking lot of the local minor league baseball stadium. At $6…
Lean Mean Weaning Machine
Well, I think I’m done pumping, which de facto means I’m pretty much done nursing. Exit Baby-Making Stage of Life – enter Stage Two: Growing Kids and Careers edition. I’d planned to carry on nursing fully through the Christmas holidays, since I will be home with the baby for several of those days and it’s…
A Morning at Home
The boys have a midday dentist appointment, so I’m remoting in from home this morning (rather than drive in, park, wait for two elevators, get all the way upstairs, get settled, say hello to all the coworkers as they wander down the hall asking everyone how the weekend was, and then packing it all up to leave again…