Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
To my mom. For being you and continuing to be a phenomenal mom year after year. And for embracing the role of grandmother with passion and intense love for my daughters. And for Fridays: lunch, shopping, and Starbucks. Week after week. To my grandmothers. Grandma Betty. Grandma Knott. For your wisdom and love for your […]
Read More Happy Mother’s DayWith the hole dug, border laid, and wood chips in place we were finally ready to begin building the swing set. This proved beyond any doubt to be the easiest part of the whole process. In all we probably spent about 8-10 hours working on it. Zoe proved to be an indispensable helper. She and […]
Read More “Play on swing set?!” (part 4 – Construction)Now that I’d spent a great deal of time and energy digging a big ass hole in the ground the only natural thing to do was . . . fill it back in! Our city provides free woodchips, the only catch was that we had to take a dump truck full, or about 7 cubic […]
Read More “Play on swing set?!” (part 3 – Woodchips)With the parts ready we were now. . . nowhere near ready to start construction. I knew there was still a lot of work to do before the first hammer would be raised. I just wanted to be sure that if we were missing any parts the company would have time to ship them to […]
Read More “Play on swing set?!” (part 2 – Let the Digging Begin)I was getting Zoe dressed this morning and she said something silly. I responded, “Zoe, you make me laugh.” Smiling, knowing just how cute she was about to be, she said, “Zoe crack Mommy up.”
Read More HilarityToday is Ellie’s four month birthday and I can’t believe it! It seems like just yesterday was the big day. The day I knew I should sleep in, but was up all night as anxious as can be. The day Zak and Zoe ate bagels and doughnuts for breakfast, while I sat and watched not […]
Read More Four MonthsWhy is it that so many of my posts must come in multiple parts? I haven’t yet begun to write but the task seems daunting, much like the project itself. That’s right, Molly and I realized this year that we had two young kids as well as a 30 by 10 foot piece of yard […]
Read More “Play on swing set?!” (part 1)It looks a little TOO natural on her. [singlepic=7678,350,250]
Read More Princess Ellie***Note: This post is not appropriate for all readers. Also, it features a huge mistake we made as parents. Zak and I own this mistake and will NOT make it again. Guaranteed. *** When Zoe says frog, it sounds like f&@^. We first discovered this one night as she was drying off with her frog […]
Read More We F&(*ed UpZoe has such a strange relationship with dogs. On one hand she is absolutely in awe of dogs and could spend hours looking at, reading about, and talking to them. On the other hand, after a bad incident last August, she is truly and genuinely horrified of dogs, refusing to get anywhere close to them. […]
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