• Kids

    Kids Spotlight: March 2025

    The Smart-Looking One My friends saw me with my new glasses and said, ‘We know you’re smart, and when you wear glasses it totally makes sense!’ F, car ride home March 13, 2025…

  • Adventures,  Kids

    February Music and Big Moves

    L tells me it’s been a musical month. F has been composing songs on his harmonica after piano practice (his Dad is teaching him the harmonica). I’ve fallen into a K-pop BTS black…

  • Adventures,  Kids

    Harry Potter Escape Room

    For our first Mother-Daughter Date this year, we booked a wizard themed escape room! This was our first escape room together, so it took us a while to figure out what to look…

  • Adventures,  Kids,  Party

    Laser Tag 13th Birthday

    Our baby is now a teenager! She is smart, caring, creative, thoughtful, generous, beautiful, capable, surprising, and so loved. Her birthday happened to be during the family reunion, so my Mom asked her…

  • Kids

    Roller Skating Mother-Daughter Date

    Lily seemed like she really enjoyed our rollerskating date even though it was only an hour of skating. We enjoyed some fun songs and the disco lights! I held her hand a lot…

  • Kids,  Personal

    December Family Moments

    Here are a few moments I’d like to remember from this month. Quiet times at home. Performances and celebrations. Admiring our lovely mountain. I got to read F’s first book entitled “The Dragin…

  • Kids

    Bowling Mother-Daughter Date

    This girl had a very special day today for our December Mother-Daughter date, which I pulled her out of school for the first time for. I think that made our time together even…