The first week of school is behind us and mercy if it wasn’t a long week. By Thursday I was flat out exhausted … and I wasn’t even the one going to school! On Thursday I got this text from Brittany: Four days into the new school year and I had already forgotten to add a sandwich?!? I didn’t even make it a week before the wheels fell off the lunch making train! A few years ago I got…
Our daughter Caroline had what can only be described as an EPIC summer. I’ve written a little about her time in Switzerland … which was incredible! She would text me from Switzerland though with countdowns for how many days left until she got to Zambia. She couldn’t wait to go meet “her kids”. Being there was a transformational experience, for sure. We have filled up the last several days listening to her stories from her work there. The way Family Legacy…
I am obsessed with the Olympics. Literally obsessed. Night after night we stack up on the couch and watch whatever NBC picks for us to cheer that evening. Watching Michael Phelps win gold after gold (after gold) was so cool. And the Simone’s?! Katie Ledecky? They are all incredible!!! It’s truly amazing to see these incredible athletes do their thing. There have been a lot of neat stories to come from the Olympics … Michael Phelps coming back after…
Summer is quickly coming to a close as school starts for us next week. I see reminders everywhere … the stores have been selling school supplies and backpacks for weeks. I am enjoying our last remaining days before it’s time to start filling those brown paper sacks with lunches again. Now that my kids are older, getting ready for school is a bit different. I have one child who will go back to college, one who is applying to colleges,…
Last month Bill and I happened upon the “love lock” bridges while we were visiting Paris. As soon as we saw the locks I remembered that a friend said one of the “must do’s” in the city was for you and your love to put a lock on the bridge and then throw the key over into the Seine River. Throwing the key away symbolized that your love would be “locked” forever. The bridge was covered in locks! Thankfully…