upon returning from a semi successful camping and hiking trip to hanging rock that was cut short, i booked a campsite at stone mountain to try again, two weeks later. i snagged the very last campsite available and when i pulled up i immediately understood why. it was fully exposed, with no tree coverage or […]
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the worst documentation of easter you’ve ever seen.
this year was different. for the past few years (and even dating back to some of the years before we went on the road), we have hosted easter, along with a pretty epic egg hunt. it’s obviously evolved over the last almost two decades. this year, the “kids” are 21, 19, 18, almost 16, and […]
marching along.
look at me. catching up this blog. again. always. eye roll at myself. here’s some stuff that happened in march. (it wasn’t super eventful). we kicked off the month with a championship game for hazel’s baskeball team. i think they went undefeated this season and they won in the finals in a very exciting game. […]
twin meet and greet.
my baby brother and his baby mama (wife), who already have two young boys, decided(?) to have a third kiddo. and, well, that ended up being a third and fourth kiddo. since i am no longer beholden to the chaos of nursing school, when spring break rolled around, we packed up the posse and headed […]
febz things.
again. still in school. february was less eventful than january.so you know what that means… i’ll be kicking things off with my boring nutrition and fitness updates. still fighting this super dumb plantar fasciitis. really kind of at the end of my rope. and it’s hard to find gym time with my school schedule. but. […]
strumbellas, reprise.
our fam has been fans of the strumbellas since way back in the day when we lived on the road. last year, we had the opportunity to see them live in chapel hill and it was the most fun concert (show, if i’m being pretentious) that i’ve ever been to. so, when they announced their […]
long cold boring january.
i’ll warn you in advance. this might be the most boring month recap post of my 20+ years of blogging. for starters, like half of the month was snow days for the kids. some legit. some not. by the end of it, they were losing their minds a little. just before the new year, i […]
it is december.
december is always chock full of all of the things. hazel’s birthday. school mayhem. christmas festivities. actual christmas. and then just general life chaos. here’s some details of that last line item…. first of all. we are back in the full swing of hazel’s basketball career. she’s playing for the wccc league again. i’m not […]
two christmases (actual and swedish).
just like every other morning here in my late forties, on december 25th, i awakened at 430 am or so. it worked out nicely, because i hadn’t done the stockings the night before, so i had PLENTY of time to do that and still savor (many) a cup of coffee. in the dark. in the […]
the crazelnut is twelve.
somehow, it’s been twelve years since this moment. time feels like it’s accelerating.when your kids are babies, they tell you this will happen.the wise older folk do. savor it, they say.and it seems so foreign, because those baby days feel like 57 hours each.but here we are, our very last baby barreling towards her teen […]