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…

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…

Uppadum!

Lilian has been DEFCON level one levels of cute lately. I'm soaking it all up like a camel, because we only have a few more months before she turns two…

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…

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…