Last weekend felt loooong since the 4th of July fell on Thursday this year and we ended up with a four day weekend. We usually take advantage of extra days off to go somewhere, but we stayed local this time instead, and it was great. After our ferry experience on Memorial Day, we really felt…
We didn't have any real plans last weekend, so we took a laid back, slow couple of days. All three of us usually prefer to be off doing things every weekend day, but occasionally it's nice to just stay close to home and quiet. We say we mean to have more weekends like that, but…
We had plans fall through at the last minute last week, so we decided to go to Leavenworth again for just Saturday night. We haven't been for a little while, but it's one of our favorite places to visit for a weekend. There's always something fun to do, be it the Accordion Festival like last…
Father's Day was last weekend, and my husband decided he wanted a pretty low key couple of days, so that's what we did. Saturday we ran a couple of errands including finally submitting our passport applications (first for the kiddo and renewals for both of us) and then a picnic at the park before heading…
The last few months have been a cycle of getting to see blogger friends in person - either again or for the first time - likely because now is probably the best time of year to visit the Pacific Northwest, plus the kiddo and I made a visit down to Portland happen to celebrate Uriah's…
We spent last weekend (ie Memorial Day weekend) out on Orcas Island, which was our first overnight trip to the San Juan Islands in much too long, though we did spend a day on San Juan Island just last month. We don't typically venture out that way during the summer months because it's the busy…
To start out with today, I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who commented or reached out after reading my post on anxiety on Monday. I had debated writing something on anxiety for a very long time but I hadn't worked up the courage to share it so publicly. As much…
Our neighbors moved away this week. Not just out of our neighborhood, but out of state and halfway across the country. They've been our neighbors for well over half the time we've been in our home, which will be eight years on the first of next month. Our son has known them to be our…
Growing up, the month of May used to look a lot like April: gray, wet, and dreary. If we were lucky, Memorial Day weekend might have decent enough weather for a barbecue outside. This year though, and the last few before that, have been unseasonably warm, and we've been seeing weather in the seventies and…
We got back from a long weekend visit to Arizona on Tuesday morning, and it's completely thrown my week off because of it after I returned to work on Wednesday. Hopefully I'm actually posting this on a Friday because I haven't known what day it was all week long. Even so, I do like splitting…