as per usual. may was pretty wild. all these birthdays. mothers day. anniversaries. end of the school year. etc…. let’s see what i can rustle up for the may review… first things first. a quick update on my plantar fasciitis. after a hike with derek on our anniversary trip revealed that i was maybe not […]
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the annababy is sixteen.
whelp. time just keeps on cruising past, faster and faster, and well, anna is sixteen. she has been waiting for this one, so impatiently, and for so very long. since the actual day of her birthday had lots of big plans (*potentially), the grandlidboms came over the night before to exchange gifts and have some […]
all things april. mostly.
now that i’ve written separate posts for easter festivities, my camping trip, anna’s grease performance, and our anniverary(ish) getaway, i didn’t leave much left to report from april. i kicked things off with an aprils fools day hang with my good old pal sara without an h. we hit up the new-ish bagel boss in […]
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. […]
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 […]
nineteen years of ike-zilla
hard to believe it, but this guy has been on the scene for nineteen whole years. for his birthday, he arranged a flag football game with an assortment of his pals. then, as sometimes happens in January, the weather was quite uncooperative. but, they found a time to squeeze it in, despite the frigid temps, […]
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 […]
a recap of november 2025.
firstly. let’s just get it out of the way. here’s some gym selfies. i’ve really cut back lately. the being hobbled has definitely hindered my gymfluencer aspirations. of course, when i take them, i still make them wacky and post weird things, just to ensure no one takes me all that seriously. it’s been a […]