Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Miss Rachel scored our mornings this June, along with the Wiggles. We moved in a haze of happy chaos, with shoes piled up by the door and extra beds in the living room. We made new friends, tried new foods, planned new adventures and stored lots of new memories. What a great little run! Though [...]
Yesterday, as I made my last airport run of a perfectly busy relative season, I wrote a little thank you note in my head to the great state of Wisconsin and to all my loves who made such efforts to travel here. Our spontaneous family get-togethers require planes to take off and land on time; [...]
When your family lives whole coasts apart, you take your time with them in great, grateful gulps. I’m still chugging. I’ve enjoyed the crowded tables full of chatty people and the quiet mornings with a baby so amiable she spends her days in a swaddle of shear delight. For the record, our little New Jersey [...]
We celebrated Vince Lombardi's famous quote last night in the best way we know how. “There are three things that are important to every man in this locker room," he said. "His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.” Last night we took advantage of the last preseason game to thank [...]
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life." Albert Einstein said it and we did it this past weekend, a bunch of precious family members mustering for joy. That our beautiful land of life involved patchy ice and unseasonable wind chills did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of our guests, who blew in [...]