Mixed Bag….

Kid #3 starts school in the morning. As in…she’s leaving the house and going to another building for eight hours! Oh is she ever excited to start 8th grade…truly! She’s been organizing and labeling (and re-labeling and re-organizing) school and...

The Stupid Water Bottle

This. This water bottle. This bulky water bottle  that my kid has been caring around with him to school, to sports, to work…for long as I can remember. I hate finding it all muddy sitting in the sink with the assumption that I’m going to clean it (which I do of course...

Final Countdown

We’ve filled our days, focused on making memories, tried tons of new things, repeated traditions, eaten dozens of family meals, had movie nights, traveled lots of places, taken hundreds of pictures, enjoyed friends, cherished family, holed up in our rooms when...

Turn the Page….

With graduation just around the corner combined with the fact that all three of us (authors of this blog) have seniors….well, there have been some pretty sweet~bitter~sweet~bitter moments around here. I happen to know that one of us, I’ll let you guess...
A Quick Glance Behind….

A Quick Glance Behind….

    I thought I could ignore it. Well, maybe not ignore it exactly..more like drape it with some trendy designer fabric and put little vintage chalkboards around it that say things in cute curly writing like: “We’re finally here!” “So proud and...