Husband & I got married on Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara six years ago. We didn’t explore much then, so I didn’t remember much of Santa Barbara other than that it was pretty and was heavy with gorgeous Spanish influence. The past few months I’ve had a craving for SoCal, so when Grandmom came out […]
It’s been unusually hot for an unusually long time here in Seattle. I generally hate Summer to begin with so… don’t get me started. Last night I was just so wiped out from the hot day that I let my son watch a video and I laid in bed with my phone, scrolling through people’s […]
Once upon a time, back when I first moved to Prague, there was this… let’s call it a “hiccup” of time at the very beginning. I flew to Prague to do a month long TEFL certification (to teach English) and when it was done I wound up flying home screaming (sobbing, really) to PA to lick […]
Several months ago, we went on a road trip down the Oregon Coast – I wanted to take the Nugget to the Newport Beach Aquarium and see the crazy, giant rocks on Canon Beach. Canon Beach was gorgeous – but SO WINDY!! Bonus? Along the way we realized we were close enough to take a […]
This may be a repeat for some (which I had posted on Manas) so feel free to pass on by. OR read on for more details on Boise! A couple of months ago, we took an impromptu road trip to Boise, ID. Everyone kept asking, “Why Boise?” to which I could only say, “Why not?” […]
Rainy days with a sick kid at home mean cleaning and organizing! In going through & organizing all my photos, I came across several scanned images, including these scans – business cards from places I visited or frequented while living in Prague. Lehká Hlava (“clear head”) was a lovely vegetarian (actually, if I remember correctly, it […]
So, wow. I’m not in my early 20s anymore. Nor do I have the stamina of someone who is. Of course, I’ve known this for a long time but it was especially clear when we arrived in San Sebastian. We left Philadelphia around 6pm and arrived, a little over 6 hours later, at 7am in […]
Oh, the first day of travels. Sigh. That sucked. Day one was getting all three of us to the East Coast, to my parents’ house. We got up at 4:30am – yes, AM – but should have gotten up at 4am. Or maybe 3:30. We arrived at the airport too late to check in. Well, […]
Today I’m busy doing laundry, sorting through photos, catching up from 2 weeks away, etc, so the stories of travel will have to wait. But in the meantime, Mr Nikki in Holland – I took a gazillion photos just of him and can’t you see why? It’s no wonder we have such a handsome kid.
We just got back home, tonight, after our two weeks away – One week in Spain (San Sebastian, Guernica, Bilbao, Pamplona) and Holland (Amsterdam, Haarlem) book-ended by a week at my parents, who watched Nugget while we were away. I have 900+ photos to go through, clean up and post and tales to tell. My […]
My husband and I met in our respective home towns (which are only 10 minutes apart, and I spent a lot of time in the town – his town – 10 minutes away for most of my teenage years and early 20s), when we’d both, serendipitously, returned from living abroad. He in England for 2 […]
There’s been a lot about the rising number of only children in the news lately. It amuses me to see that it’s big news and that everyone thinks they’re an expert on only children now. Let me tell you – being an only child during a time when the number of only children I’ve met […]
