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…
Apparently we are halfway through the year already, so it's time for another quarterly goal check in already. I only set one main goal last year (and promptly forgot about the others I had set previously). This year, I decided to be intentional with my goals like I have with the rest of mine life.…
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…
After not writing a garden update for a good six months, I'm finding myself publishing them two months in a row. Clearly, it's spring, and there's a lot more going on in the garden. After four summers of minimal time spent in the garden, it feels really good to give it some real attention this…
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…
It's rained quite a bit lately, with a few breaks for the sun, but the weather has warmed up enough that it feels like spring. And really, it's the mild rain that makes it most feel like spring, more than the sun, because that and the gray is what we tend to see most up…