sooooo. here’s the thing. if you have known me for some time now, and can remember when the anna baby was an actual baby and then a toddler and then a child, you might recall that she was decidedly not one who basked in the spotlight. she was quiet and reserved, and preferred to not […]
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my henry david thoreau birthday.
in what has now become an annual ritual, i spent the weekend of my forty ninth birthday on a solo tent camping excursion in the woods of hanging rock state park. after i dropped off the kids at school on friday, i came home and packed up the cherokee for her inaugural trip to this […]
october highlights, lowlights, and just regular lights, i guess.
whelp. it’s fully fall now. october has come and gone. allow me to tell you about it. first up. the gym. i actually changed gyms this month. long boring story. but didn’t feel like i was getting the value i was paying for. and privately owned gym was planning to move into a building nearby […]
carolina bills mafia takeover
every eight years, the bills are guaranteed to play the carolina panthers in charlotte. the last time this happened, we were on the road, the bills were still in their final drought year, josh allen was still in college, and i hadn’t fully completed my indoctrination of the lidkids. this year though. when the schedule […]
do i remember? the 30 days of september?
it’s mid october as i sit to type this. i uploaded the pics awhile back. it all seems like a dream now. september was fast. and busy. a whirlwind. anna’s field hockey career was in full swing. she has absolutely loved the experience. and it was fun for me to have a little sports mom […]
pumpkins and apples and tweens and teens.
it’s the lovely time of year again. cooler temps. leaves turning. pumpkin spice in every direction. and you know our family is here for it all. this year, in our effort to celebrate all things fall, we hit up The Farm, located just a bit north of us in dobson, north carolina. of course, after […]
blaugust. (see what i did there?)
well well well. looky what we have here. it is currently september 2nd, and i’m wrapping up august. it’s an early autumn miracle!! somehow, between vacations and camps and practices and appointments, hazel and i were able to squeeze in a quick trip out to zebulon to visit our long lost pals who moved away […]
back to school… and sports!
well well well. once again, summer vacation flew by with record speed, and suddenly it was time to head back to school. this year, i only have two kiddos in the public school system, hazel entering 6th grade (!!!) and anna beginning her sophomore year. since their start times are an hour and thirty minutes […]
july stuff. twentytwentyfive.
i’ll spare you a long intro. here’s the stuff that happened in july, between the cracks. firstly. i’ve lived in winston-salem for 20ish years now. and for the last six, i have driven past this lotus filled marshy area at least twice a day. i always say, “i should walk there someday” and then i […]
holden beach, party of four.
we had a really busy summer and it almost looked like we weren’t going to be able to squeeze a beach trip in, but we had one available long weekend and managed to book a little airbnb at holden beach for an annual dose of salt, sand and sun, just before the school year starting […]