It Was Bound to Happen Eventually…
Act I Scene I: Bright and early on a Saturday morning. A bleary-eyed Hope is unloading the dishwasher while her daughter "helps." LJ: Mama! [points] The dishwasher pod is still…
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Stick a Fork In It….
... The diet bet is over. In the end, I ended up losing 7 or 8 pounds. It's not quite as much as I'd hoped for, but it's a lot more…
Covered Bridges Half Marathon
Sunday morning, I ran the Covered Bridges Half Marathon up north in Vermont. I have mixed feeling about the whole thing. The race itself was amazing, simply incredible. The course…
Memorial Day Weekend
We had a jam-packed long weekend. Two music classes, paddling on a local lake, pizza by the ocean, and an afternoon pool-party. Even with all of that going on, we…
Mothers’ Day 2014
I joke a lot about how Kristian and I are the least romantic people that I know. I mean, by the time we get through our birthdays every year, we…
Easter Weekend 2014
One of my in-laws is having some health problems, so Easter was a little bittersweet for us this year. But, we still managed to have a nice holiday. It definitely…
Lilian’s First Easter Egg Hunt
They recently opened up a fancy new outdoor mall not too far from our house. It has a bunch of clothing stores, a Whole Paycheck Foods, as well as a…
The Cursed Slide
I drove onto our street the other day, and the first thing I saw was Lilian playing on a little plastic slide that one of our neighbors had put out…
World’s Best Carnival
I had to do some work on Saturday. It was... rough. Any work on a Saturday tends to be slightly less than fun. This work? Was done at Ikea. With…