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Recap of Our Pacific Northwest Vacation
What a trip! My friend and I joke that when you travel with young children it’s not a vacation–it’s a “trip.”But it was fun nonetheless!I’m so grateful that our school has a two-week Fall break. We left on Sunday afternoon and arrived in Seattle late that night. In retrospect, we should restrict our travel to within our boys’ typical windows of awakeness. They are not much fun when they are tired!We stayed in an inexpensive bungalow that we found on Airbnb. It’s really nice to have separate bedrooms for each boy; it increases the likelihood that they will sleep (we bring a noise machine for each… Read More -
Finding Sanity Amidst Wedding Planning Craziness
A colleague of mine is getting married soon, and I volunteered to do something off of her to-do list in an attempt to help reduce her stress. She asked me to sew 10 gift bags for her guests.With any DIY project, the prospect of doing it seemed much easier than the reality. At the beginning of the project, I texted her and asked, “If I have leftover fabric, do you want me to make more than 10?” Thank goodness she said no. The project was so hard!She wanted the bags to be lined, which complicated the process. Also, I ran out of fabric when I was trying to… Read More -
The End of the Summer Gardening Season
On Saturday we ripped up all the watermelon, cucumber, and tomato plants from our front-yard garden. It’s such a cathartic process to purge everything.
We had a pretty good season. We didn’t stake our tomatoes well and bought the really sprawling kind, so those didn’t go as well as they could have. Our watermelon plants got aphids, but they continued to produce a ton of watermelons all summer long. Next year we’ll be more intentional about which kind of tomato plants we buy, and we’ll do some proactive organic stuff to head off the aphids.Last year, I was so spent from work that I had no energy for the… Read More
