I've been on the road teaching, but managed to make another layout in-between classes. I love these pictures from our last vacation of the summer!  As the journaling reads, we were in the water so much, between the pool, lake and water park - two out of three kids returned home with swimmer's ear. Ouch! Speaking of being on the road - the Orlando SDV was AMAZING!  While I felt … [Read more...]

I love to travel.  I was getting a little misty-eyed yesterday when talking with DH about his upcoming trip to Barcelona.  We used to travel together A LOT before we became more than a family of 2 wage earning adults.  He assures me that we will travel abroad again. But there is still travel closer to home to look forward to.  So to get in the spirit, this is the house that he … [Read more...]

Well, we just got back last night from visiting my husband's family in Arkansas over the holiday weekend; and this morning I got a call from a friend who had seen us in the newspaper, as well as from a local newspaper reporter that was going to print it in our hometown paper as well.  She said the Associated Press had picked up the story - and it was all over the place on Wednesday I … [Read more...]

Well the weather was fine, but the airplane in Washington D.C. was not.   It was supposed to take off at 9:40.  Then 10:10.  Then 10:30... there were about 10 of us waiting for the Westchester flight, and we started making sort of a joke of whose turn it was to point out the updated time.  Almost immediately I had a feeling that I wasn't going to get home tonight, and I … [Read more...]