Archive for the ‘Vacations and travel’ Category

For the love of Thomas

Is it possible to plan an entire weekend around a fictitious blue train whose face is completely immobile with the exception of his lidless eyes? I tell you, it is.
The fam and I have been in Lancaster, PA for the past few days. What’s in Lancaster, you ask? Well, my friends, only [...]

Tennis Court Tantrums and French Onion Soup

Nearly four years ago The Hubs and I went on a trip to Wisconsin, sort of a last hoorah before he began his second year of law school, and I went back to teaching in September. It wasn’t much of a trip, just to an inn with some restaurants, a pool, tennis courts (we [...]

But What Was the Best Part?

We have returned. One may wonder what best part of the trip was. Let us consider the options and recount the lovely vacation we just had. What was the highlight of it all?
Was it pushing the car around on the beach?

Hanging out in the beach duds?

Filling and emptying the bucket?

The public displays [...]

We’re Outta Here

We’ll be leaving for the beach in a few hours and will be gone for a week. I’m pretty sure we will not have an internet connection there so I guess I will be on forced blogging hiatus. Perhaps that is a good thing seeing as it is a FAMILY vacation and sometimes [...]

Ah Mazing

Well, we flew home late yesterday afternoon. Sam. Was. Awesome. I can’t believe it. Somehow he woke up without a fever that morning. Our flight was on time. We got there at the perfect time. My parents watched him as he crawled around the airport for a while as [...]

He Got It

Well, Sam caught this horrible thing that I have. He came down with a fever yesterday, along with some pukiness, potentially a stuffy nose (hard to tell with a non-verbal baby), and a whole lot of miserable. He had an awful time sleeping last night and ended up in the bed with me for [...]

Absentee Blogging

Well, with my last post I broke two of my very own blog records. The first was my all time high number of comments. That’s right, 16 baby! And that’s not including me adding my own comments to your comments; it’s a solid 16. Not that I’m counting, of course. I [...]