Thirty years ago when I was in my early twenties, I was living in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I had just finished grad school at Lehigh and had received my masters in elementary ed. My first year out of grad school I was a full-time aide in a 6th grade classroom that had 32 students. My second […]
Life at My House
Another Great Swim Meet Weekend
I spent last Thursday through Sunday at a swim meet at F&M College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Kristofer and Ingrid swim on two different teams in two different states, and as luck would have it, both their teams swam at the same meet this past weekend. It was less luck and more like a miracle, actually. […]
Manor Buffet
I’m in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a swim meet Kristofer and Ingrid are swimming in. I’m one of the chaperones for Kristofer’s team, and they were super nice and let me take the kids. Tonight the team went to a buffet. Manor Buffet. I’ve never taken the kids to a buffet and Marit was in HEAVEN. […]
A Different Approach
Last week I shared Marit’s Christmas list because it was so cute and also because it made me happy that it was so modest. Today Kasen gave me his list. Just like Marit’s list, it’s modest and reasonable and doable. He took a different approach when making his list. He typed his up on his […]
My Thanksgivings
The kids were at their father’s house for Thanksgiving so we celebrated a couple days before on Tuesday night. Marit helped out – she made mulled apple cider. The kids got to hang out with Grammy and Papa and get some serious games of Phase 10 in. We had a really nice meal. All the […]
My office
A couple days ago I posted this picture on the NYAM Facebook page with the caption in love with my office rn. Some people didn’t really believe it was my office. It’s my office. I wanted to give myself a really awesome work space. So I did. When I came to check this place out […]