Taos to Boulder

Happy New Year! We’re in Boulder, getting ready to head to Frisco today for our last week in the West. Our last few days in Taos were sunny, warmish, and beautiful. On Christmas Eve, we met up with some friends who live in Maryland to ski with them at Taos. Gilbert had a bone to…

Winter Break

After a tough semester, we wrapped everything up and headed out of town! First we departed around 4:30 am; Patrick and I had both been sick, and Harlan missed school on Tuesday, and Seamus had missed the Tuesday before, so like everyone else in the world, we’re having a cruddy fall. It’s not Covid, but…

Season of Skiing

We skied a lot this year. We will be at 40 days by the end of the season, but maybe more if Patrick has his way and the ski areas stay open! The epic pass ended up being very worth it for us, as we were able to get in a lot of days locally,…

Santa Fe Getaway Trip

Patrick and I took a quick trip to Santa Fe, our first without kids in a long time, and we had a great time! If you’re looking for a few suggestions, look no further! We decided our motto was “Do stuff we can’t do with the kids” and so we did a lot of hiking,…

Albuquerque Research Trip

I needed to do research at the Center for Southwest Research at University of New Mexico, but it would have been hard to do over the summer, or on a break, since the library hours are also subject to summer and breaks. Enter, sabbatical research time. It’s a good thing that research was the agenda…

Last Days of Summer

We had just a teeny bit more fun to squeeze in before all the kids started back to school and I started to work on my sabbatical project in earnest. One of those fun things the kids had been promised was a trip to visit my parents in Kentucky. We’d been planning to go in…

Re-entry

I had a work conference in Albuquerque which was amazingly productive and inspiring. However, it was hard being away from home for five (almost six) nights. I missed my family, and I felt bad about being gone so long. I got back on Sunday night so late, it might as well have been Monday. To…

Ski Day!

The kids were off school on Monday, and since part of my self-care this semester is not going in on Monday (even though I do work at least 5 hours at home on Monday), I also had the day “off.” I’d been bugging Patrick to take Seamus and Gilbert skiing, but then I realized, I…

More Sundries, and Harlan is 15 months old

Again, nothing momentous, but still some fun things. Harlan is fifteen months, and to celebrate, he joined the 15th percentile on weight and the 80th on head. So he’s carrying a big brain on a little body. He has 15 (or so) words to share: more, uh-oh, hat, bus, ball, byebye, hi, hello, shoe, dada,…

Ski School

With the snow (and the gorgeous powder), we decided that it was time to let the boys have a go at skiing. They love sledding and ice skating, why not? They both had a lesson, and Seamus ended up being able to go down the big mountain with Patrick by the end of the day.…