Posted in Travel on Jan 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
We spent our last day in sunny California riding Grandpa’s tractor, eating oranges off his tree, and visiting a petting zoo. It was seventy-five degrees.
We arrived at SeaTac airport after midnight, had to wait while the luggage carousel was fixed, and finally made it home just before 2am. As expected, it is raining in […]
Posted in Family, Travel on Jan 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
We spent New Year’s Eve at my BIL’s house, and my SIL mentioned something about watching cage fighting over the weekend while we were gone. I’ve known my BIL has been into cage fighting for years, so this prompted me to ask the question of whether she was into it because HE was into it, […]
Posted in Bryan, Family, Travel on Jan 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
A few days ago we drove the kids through the neighborhood Bryan grew up in. I’ve seen it all before, but it was fun to take the kids - especially Ruthie, who seems to have understood these were places Daddy was when he was little like her.
This is Bryan’s Grandma’s house, now owned and […]
Posted in Family, Travel on Dec 30th, 2007 No Comments »
We are spending the weekend with my brother, his wife, and my seven year old nephew - about two hours away from Bryan’s family. We started off the weekend by playing Guitar Hero for about two hours, which, I have to say, is the only video game I have been able to beat my […]
Posted in Ruthie, Travel on Dec 26th, 2007 No Comments »
My FIL lives up in the hills, and the back of his property borders a wild area. Occasionally at night you can hear coyotes just across his fence and the dogs go crazy. The other night when Bryan and I and the kids were alone in the house, all three dogs went nuts […]
Posted in Family, Travel on Dec 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Somehow I’ve managed to maintain my current weight this week even though every flat surface in this house is covered with something sugared or baked. I mean, for cryin’ out loud! I nibble a little here, and I nibble a little there, but for the most part I have avoided a full throttle gorge. […]
Posted in Everyday, Travel on Dec 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
It takes me fifteen minutes just to get to the interstate from where we are staying, on a hill high enough that my ears pop every time we go into town. On the interstate it takes another 10-15 minutes to get to Costco, or Target, or wherever I’m headed (because, you know, I saved […]
Posted in Ruthie, Travel on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Despite the fact that we didn’t go to bed last night until after eleven, Ruthie was still standing at the end of our bed at 6:45 this morning, demanding that we be awake now.
“I’m sure grandpa’s awake,” said Bryan into his pillow.
So I jumped up, threw some clothes and a box of cereal at her, […]
Posted in Travel on Dec 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
This morning it occurred to me, as I observed my daughter at the airport security check point, that this is the third time this year we have traveled by airplane with the kids. I was thinking of this because Ruthie walked right up to the x-ray machine, took her shoes off, and put them […]
Posted in Friendship, Travel on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I was hoping to have my house put together more than it is, but when you have a friend visiting you FROM AUSTRALIA you’d best concern yourself with ending Pukefest 2007 first. The important thing is that I vacuumed the layers of cracker crumbs out from the between the couch cushions so I don’t […]
Posted in Family, Travel on Nov 26th, 2007 4 Comments »
I am back from the land of Maxwell House coffee. My sister actually told the couple who served us the rehearsal dinner, “Could you please make the coffee a little more like coffee house coffee, and a little less like church coffee?” I appreciated her effort, because strong Maxwell House coffee is much […]
Posted in Travel on Nov 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I am in Kansas today, and boy is the terrain flat here. I can see for miles.
My nephew is getting married here on Saturday, so we skipped Thanksgiving. I spent the day on an airplane while Bryan and the kids ate pizza and beer with our friend, Jack. I can’t say that I’m […]
Posted in Fun Pile, Travel on Jul 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
I just returned from five days and four nights of camping in the rain. It was a little overwhelming, but we just couldn’t stay away as it was the week of our favorite music festival on an island north of Seattle. For five days everything felt damp, even if it wasn’t actually wet […]
Posted in Family, Travel on Jun 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
We spent three days in Northwestern Iowa visiting my sister and her family, who live on a small, extremely dreamy farm. They live in Dutch country, which is to say the young boys are tall, strapping, and very clean cut, the farms and in-town homes are quaint and well maintained, and the churches are all […]
Posted in Things, Travel on Jun 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sweltering … [choke]… dripping… [gasp]… so hot… [gasp]… can’t breath… [hack]… air is too thick…