it’s halfway through july as i type this. and we have been keeping pretty busy and active, so this all seems like a million years ago. but alas. i will do my best to recapture the moments. away we go… firstly. a lovely hike with ruby to hanging rock state park. a favorite of ours. […]
friends
second annual girls beach trip
as it so happens, my two girls are bffs with a set of sisters from another lovely family. a family whose mom is willing to take all four of them to the beach for a long weekend. i don’t have much information to accompany the pics she was sending or that i stole from anna’s […]
a very simple last minute lego cake.
once a year, my pal kelley texts me at the last minute, asking if there’s any way i can make a cake for her tiniest offspring, davis. it’s usually prefaced with a bunch of acknowledgements that it’s asking a lot, that she knows it’s short notice, and that she fully expects there’s no way i […]
MAY-hem (2025).
it’s that time of year. when all the anniversaries and birthdays and mothers days and end of school concerts and graduations and field days and class parties come together to create the most chaotic month of mayhem for our little crew. and then there’s the in between stuff. and that’s what i’ll be talking about […]
the end of elementary….
the last lidkid, hazelnut, is done with elementary school. our k-5 years were pretty non-traditional… a few years of public school at two different elementary schools for ike, followed by several years of road school and home school for all three kiddos. but, the final three years of elementary school for hazel were spent at […]
impromptu hike with hp
when your one and only local hike friend asks if you can go on a spontaneous-ish hiking trip, you make it happen. (it wasn’t that hard, actually, i don’t have that much going on). heather and i had been to elk knob a year or so ago, but it was in the winter and super […]
and then. the annababy was fifteen.
man these years just keep flying by. seems like yesterday the annababy was the worlds more adorable toddler, quietly going about life, observing and mean mugging, desperately avoiding attention at all costs. and now. well. she’s still observant. but very much loves any and all attention and is anything but quiet. she is into all […]
april things.
with the school calendar moved up a bit, april has gotten a little bit busier. it used to be the calm before the storm, complete with a bit of spring break crammed in there. but now all of the end of year stuff really starts gearing up. and, there was literally one day off from […]
the very last ever vienna chorus concert for the hazelnut and it’s ok i’m ok.
even though hazel didnt start public school until third grade, she jumped right in with all of the activities and you would never even know she was a weird homeschooler. this year, for their spring concert, i finally snagged front row seats and get an up close viewing of my favorite little crooner. between me, […]
march (very non-)madness
march was really quite boring around here. aside from a solo camping trip for me and a trip to nyc for derek and anna, the rest of the month was just standard mundane life. maybe even less exciting than that. first of all, i know this to be true, because about half of my camera […]