Monthly Archives: July 2014

Today we  stayed “home.” It’s so nice to have no firm plans for the day, to be able to stay in one place, to play with the kids without worrying about driving somewhere, no trying to figure out where to stay, just staying in one place. This morning the mosquitoes seem to have gone somewhere else. Maybe […]

This morning we went to the beach for some true Atlantic Ocean beach fun. We’ve been in bays and seas connected to the Atlantic, but this was the only time we would play in the pure, unprotected, raw Atlantic Ocean. Of course the Screamer fell asleep as we walked down to the water! But who can […]

Today is a driving day and we hope you make it all the way to Maine with a little daylight left so we can play before bed. We took the scenic route up through Vermont and New Hampshire and drove through Maine to the coast. It was an uneventful trip except for many bathroom stops […]

Today we had some time to kill and so we took the kids to the Thomas Edison inventions museum in West Orange New Jersey. I have been to the museum about four times before and I was excited to bring the kids to see all of the really neat inventions thought up so long ago, and yet […]

  6:00am came pretty quickly, and we had to be at the train station by 7:00 to have a prayer of making it on the planned train. We made it by 6:45. Unfortunately, the train station we went to appeared to be a bus station rather than a train station, and we frantically drove to […]

It turned out that the Oregon cousins could come for breakfast, so we had one last wild fling before we they headed to the airport and we headed out for our next adventure. After the cousins said their last goodbyes, we took a dip in the pool. It was filed with vacationing southern mamas and […]

My baby girl turns 5 tomorrow. That means that 5 years ago tonight I was about 60 hours into the weirdest labor my midwife had seen in a while, and she was starting to freak out and mention going to the hospital. Nobody wants to see their midwife freak out, and so we packed up […]

This morning we got up and went to Lydia Mountain to help clean up after the wedding. However, everything was already cleaned up when we got there, so we all just hung out and talked, and we decided we would all spend the day together. We had lunch at one of cousin Janette’s favorite places, […]

The main reason for this summer trip is my cousin’s wedding, and today is the day! I have only 4 first cousins, so its’ pretty exciting when one of them does something like get married! I was also certain there would be some extended family attending, so this promised to be a mini family reunion. […]

Our only jobs today were to go to Jamestown and get to Stanardsvill, Virginia, at a halfway decent hour. We did both. And we are REALLY happy to have our Popi with us! Instead of visiting the re-creation of Jamestown, we visited the ruins, which was a very different experience than then one I had […]