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December 27th 2022 4:30 am.  I’m still awake. I know Matt and the kids are up and heading to the airport for their 6:00 am flight to Liberia, Costa Rica. I still can’t quite fathom I’m not going with them.  The National Passport Agency doesn’t open until 8:00 am… I’m counting down the moments untilContinue reading “It’s just a little detour”

December 27th, 2022- Its 2:30 am and I am eyes wide open after a menial 4 hours of sleep.  Running through my head are the events of the last few days…. which inevitably leads me to reviewing events of the last few weeks, months, hell the whole year!  And what a year it has been….  Continue reading “Lost and Found”

4/4/21 Easter Sunday Well, you just could have never prepared me for the total mind melter of a day this was to be.. on every possible level … cognitively, aesthetically, physically, emotionally…. It was just a big one. First, Hoppy Easter! I had false hope that Easter just wasn’t going to be a thing thisContinue reading “Am I Dreaming? Part 1”

4/3/21 Saturday- Desert Moon Campground, Thompson Springs Utah and Moab The kids are up early and ready to explore.  I manage to get myself together and make some oatmeal (and coffee, because of course coffee) before the kids are outside and scattering in every direction. Isabelle is at an age, (or it could just beContinue reading “Ghost Town and a Baby Shower?!”

4/2/2021-FRIDAY (Breckenridge- Grand Junction- Thompson Springs, Utah) I don’t really know how to share what all has transpired over the last 6 months…..I think it will take some  time to reflect and unpack it all before I can fully understand it myself. So instead, I’m just going to jump right on into this next escapade.Continue reading “To the Moon….the Desert Moon”

     New Year’s Eve 2020 was spent on a respiratory unit at CHOA, with a terribly ill 16-month-old sweet baby Jack. Confined to a hospital bed, in an isolation room, holding my precious baby close to my heart…… I exhaustedly dozed in and out while watching the fuzzy, miniature hospital tv that was affixed to theContinue reading “2020….. its time to say thank you and good bye”

10/16/2020         Have you ever been roused from slumber by a chorus of coyotes?  Me neither…. at least not prior to this glorious morning on our Kansas prairie farm.  I woke several times throughout the night feeling quite dizzy and disoriented, unable to determine which way was up or down, my proprioception severely deficient…. IContinue reading “Little RV on the Prairie – Part II”

Part I 10/14/2020 I have barely slept. At one point in the night I thought there was a crowd of townies outside with pitchforks and flaming torches, rocking our camper back and forth trying to upend us for intruding on their land. Did that happen? Was it a dream, or my mind playing tricks onContinue reading “Little RV on the Prairie”

10/13/2020 A new day in a new state has begun. It’s always thrilling to wake up in a location that we arrived at in the dark. Where are we this time?   What type of magic will the daylight reveal? This particular landing spot is South Sandusky campground at Rend Lake in Illinois. I have zeroContinue reading “Black walnut black market”

10/12/2020 I am telling yall, we left Daniel Boone next level. The drive is already going 1000 times better than any car time we have logged thus far. The kids have finally figured out how to occupy themselves without their activity solely consisting of fighting.  They have their books, coloring, action figures, harmonicas, idiosyncratic gamesContinue reading “Bluegrass, and Horse Blues”