We've somehow ticked over into August, which means this past Tuesday was our state's primary elections. Washington is a 100% vote by mail state, which is completely awesome. I've actually never had to go down to a polling booth to vote. Of course, I waited too long to put it in the mail (no stamp…
This has been a short "week" since my last update was on Monday after our week long camping trip above the Methow Valley. The week absolutely flew by, and it is somehow already Friday again. Time is strange right now - both so fast and so disjointed. A bit like time with a newborn, except…
Well, I think I had some unfounded hope at the last quarterly update back in April that things would be more back to normal by now, but they clearly aren't. COVID cases here in the United States are higher than ever, and I'm concerned what 4th of July gatherings are going to do to them…
After too many long months, I finally got to see Felicity and Purple in person. Granted, we were all masked up and hung out outdoors off and on in the rain, but it was still in person. And that made my heart so happy. Felicity also brought the kiddo a bunch of snacks back from…
After the age that was the month of March, life slowly picked up after April and May, and June has somehow sped by. Though, in the words of Scary Mommy, this new pandemic phase is more stressful than lockdown in many ways. It's finally summer, and the weather is beginning to look like it as…
I spent last weekend completely off social media, and 95% offline, including archiving my Women's Personal Finance Facebook group from Friday afternoon to Monday morning (meaning the group was still "there" but frozen to new posts/comments/etc until I reopened it). I've been pretty overwhelmed lately, and the weekend felt like a really important reset, and…
It's funny how fast time seems to be going these days after the drag of how long March lasted. While things are definitely still quite difficult, the days are moving by at a much more rapid clip. Have you noticed this as well? Strange, for sure. Thought it still is hard to believe it's been…
I haven't felt much like writing and almost skipped today's post, but ultimately I decided that I want a diary of these strange times. Four weeks ago, I startejd working from home. At that point, things felt completely surreal and like I was probably overreacting by pulling the kiddo from preschool. A month later, it…
What was meant to be our first full week back to work since before Christmas ended up being a bit different than expected. We left Iceland right after blizzard conditions and a ton of snow dumped on the part of the country we were in and arrived just in time for a bunch of snow…
My birthday was last Friday (the 13th!) so I decided that I wanted to celebrate by renting a big house with a bunch of friends and just hang out for the weekend. It should be pretty clear by now that I am very extroverted, so my idea of a wonderful birthday weekend is one where…