Ingrid’s swim coach has built a great swim lesson program and he runs it out of the university pool where she trains. Many of his swim lesson instructors are college students. They teach lessons to make some money during the school year, and some stay at school and work during the summer, too. Ingrid became […]
Life at My House
The Last Trip To DC
We have officially closed another chapter. Marit’s 8th grade trip to DC was last week. There were lots of parents walking their kids to the busses when they dropped them off at the middle school at 6 am. Not me. I pulled up to the sidewalk, Marit got out of the car and grabbed her […]
The Birds Left The Nest
On April 5th I went out on my back deck to repot some plants. I had left a bag of potting soil out there all winter. When I opened up the bag, a bird flew out of the bag and scared the crap out of me. Upon further investigation I discovered a nest in the […]
Do You Want Company?
Yesterday we went to my parents’ house for the annual Easter egg hunt. Every year my dad hides plastic eggs for the kids out in their back yard — 24 little eggs, and 1 big egg per kid. The little eggs have candy in them, and the big egg has money in it. The eggs […]
The Kitchen Is Open
The kids were with their father for two weeks of vacation the second half of August. It’s the longest stretch of time I’ve ever been away from them. The weeks leading up to this were overwhelming with relatives visiting from Texas and swim meets in Florida and Virginia and a college move in North Carolina. […]
The Trip of a Lifetime (Gretchen’s Paris Vacation)
In February of my junior year in high school I went to France on an exchange trip. For some reason I saved the program acceptance letter. I don’t know whose phone numbers are written across the top, and I have no idea who Harry is, but that’s definitely my brother’s handwriting. Fourteen students from my high […]