Monthly Archives: July 2019

No lightning or ticks this morning. We won this round, Nature. Go back to your corner! There may be nothing as gratifying to a mother than free hotel breakfast. How much better can life get? Roll out of bed, bra optional, jammies a must, bed hair, kids disheveled, walk down a hallway, dish food onto […]

We were excited to wake up at beautiful Lake Thompson. This is the lake where Laura and Almanzo took their Sunday drives, the vast lake that drenches this prairie and gives the animals a drink, the lake that gives life and joy to this day. So many sounds and creatures! This was my view when […]

This morning we packed up and moved out almost before anybody else in camp woke up, and we marched on to Walnut Grove, on the banks of Plum Creek. Surreal. This is the town that time forgot. We had to drive around and wrangle the GPS to figure out where the dug-out was, but what […]

We had to swim again this morning. It’s becoming a weird, neurotic obsession. Maybe we should move to Hawaii! It’s our first Laura Ingalls Wilder “Little House” day. There are really 6 main “Little House” locations. One of those locations is not mentioned in the books. We are only visiting 3 of these locations on […]

Driving days: two days of driving brought us from Parsippany, New Jersey, through Pennsylvania, ohio, Indiana, up through Chicago, then on through Wisconsin, across the Mississippi River to our hotel in Winona, Minnesota. So lots of phone calls with Popi and unicorn games.But we cannot just drive like normal people. Yesterday I noticed that some […]

I took my first Uber today. Pops had found a dealer who could look at my car, so I dropped it off at 6:30, I got to use my new umbrella because it was raining, and a nice guy in a car came and took me to my car. So today was a rest day […]

NYC day 2! The kids woke up still on fire to go back to the city, and so we went. Miss L just couldn’t get the Statue of Liberty out of her head, and even though my kids had been there just 4 years ago, they were happy to visit again, as well. We were […]

We are urban camping. Last night when we went to sleep, this is what we saw. This morning when we woke up, it was to the sounds of ships, and street crossfit mere feet from the fence near our tent. The trainer was shouting, “You didn’t come here to get smaller, did you???” Jersey City […]