Posted in Celebrate, Gardening, Places, Seasons, Summer, The Outdoors, travel on Oct 22nd, 2009
. . . and do I have a lot to share. I certainly didn’t intend to have such a long blogging hiatus but it happened anyway. It started with my summer from hell. Soon after the lovely birthday party, summer camp started. Lots went wrong- mostly database issues resulting in registration issues and unhappy parents [...]
Okay, so maybe hate is too strong of a word for a city that I have only passed through on road trips but let me tell you a few things about it. -It’s hot, really hot. Most of my drives through Redding happen during the summer and I am not a lover of hot weather. [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Children, Easter, Family, Holidays, Places, Seasons, Spring, travel on Apr 15th, 2009
12 hours in the car with a toddler isn’t so bad. Maybe it’s just my amazing trooper of a kid but I’m tempted to even’ say that the drive from Portland to the Bay Area was fun. I realize that sounds crazy but crayons, knitting and books on CD go a long way- 600 miles [...]
My life feels like a cliche! I just got back from 6 days in sunny California and now I’m back in Portland where, you guessed it, it’s raining. I was hoping for a few more weeks of summer but it seems like autumn is really here. California was fun. We saw the grandparents and sesame [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Children, Family, Places, Seasons, Summer, travel on Sep 16th, 2008
Okay, okay. I know that there is another week of official summer and then we in the lovely Pacific Northwest usually have another several weeks of blue skies before the rain starts. But- I’ve been absent for so long that I feel like I should start the summer wrap-up now since I’ve been busy the [...]
