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First Day of First Grade
This morning my biggest girl started 1st grade. She moved from the primary classroom to an elementary classroom at her Montessori school, which means she will be learning alongside not just other...
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Weaning Zara
This week, my “baby” officially started preschool. Since we’re a Montessori family, Zara had the benefit of a long transition period as she moved from the toddler to the preschool class over the...
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Last Camping Trip Of Summer
Today’s the first day of fall, but it’s been hot and still quite summer-like in northern Colorado, so I’m still feeling every much in summer mode. It’s all most a month late, but I’m finally getting...
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Pittsburgh
Last month I did something I had never done before – I left Chris and the girls and flew across the country to visit friends for a weekend in Pittsburgh. Every year since I moved away from New York,...
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Why I Didn’t Make Halloween Costumes This Year
Every year since Nora could understand Halloween, I have made her a homemade Halloween costume. When Zara came along, I increased to making homemade costumes for two and loved it. Especially when...
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A Peek Inside Our New House
We’ve been living in our new house for ten days and it is mostly put together now. The past two weeks from our expected close date to the actual close date to moving mid-week was pretty stressful, but...
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Adventuring into a New Year – Wordlessly
Today, Zara turned three. That means it has been almost three years since we moved off Nantucket. It means that we have now lived off island post Nantucket for the same amount of time that we called...
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Saying Hello
It’s been 416 days since I took down my website, to take, what I thought would be, a 6 month hiatus from blogging. It was both an easy and hard decision, but most certainly the right one for where my...
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Camping Throwback: Gordon Gulch
It’s Saturday and as it gets closer to spring, I’m dreaming more and more about camping, so I thought I might post a throwback to our first camping trip last summer. During our first year of regular...
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If You’re Serious About Business, You Have To Put Your Kids in Daycare
Friday, on my Facebook Page, I shared this video of Professor Robert Kelly being interviewed by the BBC, and having his children walk into the room: It’s quite the funny little moment (although...
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Go Code Colorado: Amazing Experience, Challenging for Parents & Entrepreneurs
Last year, I competed in Go Code Colorado, a combination business startup and app development competition hosted by the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. This weekend is “challenge weekend” for...
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Adelaide’s Birth Story
Adelaide is 6 weeks old today. I started writing this blog post two weeks ago, but today it’s getting posted, no matter what. After both Nora’s birth and Zara’s birth, I had their stories written...
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Maternity Leave for Small Business Owners
On May 9th, I gave birth to our third daughter, Adelaide, while running on just an hour of sleep, following a 10 hour work day into the wee hours of the morning. Adelaide was born at noon; I rested,...
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The Work/Life Balance Project
I’m writing this post as we drive down the highway in the middle of Tennessee. We’re headed back home from a visit to my mom’s house outside Detroit. This would seem like a normal Christmas voyage,...
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Spring on the Farm
It’s beginning to feel a lot like spring around here. As much as I think that I’ve enjoyed living places with 4 seasons, I’ll admit that I’ve also been enjoying living in a place where tank tops and...
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Work-Life Balance Interview: Meg Appleby
Last July, as I was working figuring out how to better balance my life, I started interviewing other people who seemed like they have it all together. I always had the intent of sharing these...
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If It’s Not Working, Fix It
Chris and I have been married for 11 years. In those 11 years, we have lived in 5 states all across the country – one, twice. That means we’ve moved a lot. In fact, for every state we’ve lived in,...
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Logistics of a Cross-Country Move for a Family of 5 With One Week Notice
The last time I published a post, it was about why we spontaneously decided to move to Texas. This week I thought it might be interesting to share HOW we made that cross-country move happen in almost...
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Designed to Sell: Flipping Our House
We bought our house in Fort Collins, Colorado in October 2015 for $289,000. It was a four bedroom, two bath 2,138 sqft. bi-level on 0.29 acres, that was built in 1971. It had been relatively well...
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Camping Throwback: Gordon Gulch
It’s Saturday and as it gets closer to spring, I’m dreaming more and more about camping, so I thought I might post a throwback to our first camping trip last summer. During our first year of regular...
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