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Midsummer Report.

Back in, oh… April? I started getting excited about having a garden this year. I really wanted to get out there and …

The Best Minute

Well, I’m back on Facebook, so the great anti-social media experiment is over. And I certainly am glad it ended when it …

On the Road, part deux.

I’m sitting in a hotel room, cuddling a feverish 1-year-old. Because of course we weren’t going to make it the whole way …

On The Road.

We left Edmonton 7 days ago now. It seems like yesterday, and it seems like an eternity. Right now I am sitting …

Glacier.

After literally years of talking about it, we finally did it. We drove down from Edmonton and two sisters and one brother-in-law …

Let’s go on a adventure.

Violet has a phrase that she uses with some regularity. It’s one of my current favorites. “Mama! Let’s go on a adventure!” …

Assimilating, apparently.

This is our fourth Canadian summer. Our fourth Canada Day. And this year, finally, we did something aside from put the girls …

Run for your Dad.

Saturday morning I set an alarm and woke up early. Not because I had an early race, though. Yesterday’s 5k had a …

Gone to Carolina

There are so many pictures from our trip. So many. And so I’m slogging through them, bit by bit. I realize that …