It Will Be Cold Again.
Life was always happening in the garden and the barn. The summer heat, the winter wind, the spiders and their webs, the birds and their nests in every nook and cranny. While everyone else was moving from their temperature controlled house to their temperature controlled car to their temperature controlled office, I was slogging through […]
Big Lessons.
The problem with parenting is that you never really know anything until you’ve lived through it. Sure, you can read parenting books and you can ask other parents, but until you’re actually trying to convince a living, breathing 2 year to put his poop in the potty you don’t really know, well,…you don’t know sh*t. […]
Over the Mountains and Through the Woods.
So there we were in Bakersfield, CA in the summer of 2017. Bakersfield wasn’t originally part of our trip. My original plan was to head north from Phoenix, hit the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Death Valley, and then the Sequoias. ‘Cause they’re all lined up neatly from east to west. Too bad there’s no pass […]
Cleaning house.
So I’m gonna start at the ending and work my way back to the beginning. Which is against the rules, I know. But the rules are kind of fast and loose around here lately. If you wondered where I was for almost the past year, I was cleaning house. That seems like a lot of […]
There You Are.
I was writing about my summer vacation and I had to download some more photos. It took a couple days because in order to “download some more photos” I had to track down Pretty (whose schedule is fuller than a rock star), get the pics off her camera and onto to a little card, shove […]
Old West.
There are a lot of national parks out west. But the boys can only see so much majestic scenery before they become underwhelmed by it and ask to stay in the car. And Pretty is a big city freak, wanting busy sidewalks and traffic and coffee shops. And The Other Half wanted to visit small […]
Left Behind.
There is something fascinating about places that stand the test of time. Remnants of earth’s ancient past, testaments to humankind’s presence. From the silly to the sacred, the Southwest is filled with these places. We were up bright and early to get back to Carlsbad Caverns and tour the cave. We passed a herd of […]
Southsides.
I noticed it first in Atlanta. I mean there was hint of it, but I blamed it on the city. The crowds, the exhaust, the towering skyscrapers. However, when we were standing in Biloxi, facing the Gulf of Mexico, there was no denying it. I stood there with my sweat-soaked shirt already stuck to my […]
Compromise.
A lot of compromises went into this family vacation. I’ve already mentioned that we were trying Airbnb in the hopes of having more space for the kids than in the average hotel room. It was costing me some extra money, but it was costing Pretty a whole lot of aggravation. Since I don’t have a […]
First Stop.
The trick to traveling across country with 6 people in a minivan is getting out of the van every 3-4 hours. In an attempt to meet this goal, we stopped at some pretty random places. We also stopped at some great places that we should have visited a long time ago. Our very first stop […]
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