I can’t believe it’s really here, but we are under two weeks from leaving for eight days—without our children!!! Seriously. It’s true! We leave a week from Friday, and will return the following Saturday night. Jen’s folks are keeping our kiddos for the week, and my folks gave us a week of their time share……
Tag: Special Days
So Far
I forget if I have posted the plans for this extended holiday weekend here or not (yes, it’s Columbus Day on Monday… technically a holiday weekend…) so in case I haven’t I will post retroactively: Thursday: My sister and family come to town late at night, we hung out in the kitchen enjoying some homemade…
Happy Birthday, Alex!
It’s going to be a big day, for a big guy. Our little Alex is turning six today! He is a super fun guy who lives life with passion. (Of course, that means he can get pretty fiery mad, too, but mostly it’s super happy, bring-everyone-along-with-him passion!) My sister and family are in town, and…
Changing Seasons
Fall has begun, and that means that we’re coming to the very end of the ice cream season. It’s been a good one. Many visits from the Chis. My Dad has been up several times for ice cream. Friends from all over the region have met us there – including a surprise visit from our…
Happy Birthday, CAYA!
Today is the 5th anniversary of one of our albums, Come As You Are. CAYA, as it is known around here, is CD that I recommend to people who don’t have any of our CDs. I think the Christmas album is my favorite overall, but this one is the best collection of songs that captures…
Evidence
Here’s a little bit of evidence that I have been unable to get to my blog very much this past week or so… Yesterday, August 26th, went by without me noticing even once that it was the fourth anniversary of my blog’s existence! :-) I had been looking ahead to that date all month, planning…
Hiroshima: Part 2
On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima – Aug 6th – I mentioned that I picked up a book by the name of the city from our local library. It was a fairly short book, detailing the events of the lives of several survivors of the horrible day. It was fairly objective (quite unlike…
Hiroshima: August 6th, 1945
After recently watching those two movies about the battle for Iwo Jima, I found it intriguing when I discovered that today is the anniversary of the day the US dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. I clicked on the link in my “This Day In History” widget, and read about…
Ring Day
Today was Ring Day. My mom calls it our Engagement anniversary. But we never really said anything like that… “We’re engaged!” We just sorta decided to get married. In 1997. Around July 16/17. Then we went to pick out some rings. And they had to do something to get them ready… so… we waited. Until…
Ice Cream Celebrations…
It’s probably starting to feel like all I do around here is talk about ICE CREAM! Well, for this month, I guess that’s true :-) It is National Ice Cream Month, and I have had ice cream EVERY DAY this month. 19 days in a row, and counting! For tonight, we made a gallon of…