The main reason for our trip to California has been to celebrate Joel’s little sister’s high school graduation. Grace is a lovely girl and she was valedictorian. (Yay, Grace!!) We don’t get out to California often, so it’s been an extra special treat to get to be here with her on a big day! I [...]
Oops, I’m in California and I keep forgetting to blog. I’m going to blame it on the sunshine. So today I thought I’d share an adventure from our first day. We left our house at 3am on Wednesday and stepped off the plane at 11am California time. Joel’s parents picked us up and we drove [...]
Hello! Sorry it’s been so quiet around here! We had a long weekend of traveling and when I say long I’m talking ten hour drives both ways, but it was so worth it! We went to West Virginia and got to see family and be at my good friend Anna’s wedding. It was a lovely [...]
Spring was so lazy about taking its sweet time to get here that summer had to step in! So the tulips are only just beginning to really show up during a week of 80+ degrees and thunderstorms. It’s finals week at my day job and soon I’ll be busy processing grades and lots of other [...]
In just a few months we’ll be flying out to California for a week of celebrating with family, visiting places I’ve never been (like the Getty Museum) and seeing sunshine and sunshiny friends. I’m glad we’re flying and not making that crazy-long drive but when this song came on my radio today I got a [...]
There’s nothing quite so nice as the feeling of walking in to your own home after long travels. We drove over 1,800 miles in the past ten days, saw pretty things, had lovely times and spent happy hours with family and friends. It’s only too bad that holidays can’t last forever, but tucked up cozy [...]
Here’s the last of my Williamsburg posts! But first a recap, we went to Williamsburg to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary. (Not too shabby, eh?) In case you don’t know, Colonial Williamsburg is a living history museum set in the reconstructed and preserved historic town of Williamsburg, Virginia. It’s the kind of place families and [...]
I’ve always dreamed about going to Williamsburg at Christmastime and how magical it would be. I was not disappointed! At night all of the fir trees in the modern sections of town and around our guest house were draped in white lights and the huge fluffy snowflakes that filled the skies nestled on their branches. [...]
I’ve been feeling the itch for travel lately. I think it’s because of the shorter days and because it’s so dark before I get home. This time next month I’ll be traveling all over the Mid West and Mid Atlantic states, but for now I’m taking a little daydream trip from my backyard to beautiful [...]
I can’t remember how I first came across Little Brown Pen, the blog of Nicole Robertson, but I remember spending a few hours reading through her archives over multiple cups of coffee. Not a bad way to spend a morning! Nicole’s writing is so witty that I pretty much always end up laughing at the [...]
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