Homecoming

This weekend was homecoming at my university, and I took Harlan and his buddy to be helpers. All the other kids had games, but then Gilbert’s got residual-rained out. Porter woke up Sunday with a bad sore throat, so he laid on the couch all day Sunday. Seamus, Gilbert, and Harlan went to the batting…

Recovered and More Snow

Everyone has recovered from Covid. Not sure if the other kids had it; all tested negative, but then we ran out of tests. Patrick made it home from Colorado with the car. We cleaned the house and thought about some home improvement projects. The kids had off school yesterday for MLK day, but they probably…

Omicron Wave

Well, after dodging Covid for two years, despite some traveling and hanging out with friends, and kids’ sports (most of this stuff was our family unit, and mostly outside), it finally caught up to us. Harlan started feeling a little sick on Wednesday last week, asking me for a tissue more than usual and wooling…

Transition Days

It snowed! In Falls Church, but we weren’t there, so we missed it. That was fine, because it meant that while we are still in the West, the kids aren’t missing school. We skied one beautiful day at Arapahoe Basin, and it was a really fun mountain. We had considered skiing on our transition day…

Skiing Copper Mountain

For the last few days, we’ve been at Copper Mountain during the day, and hanging out with our cousins at night. We have had a lot of snow. From Thursday until Saturday morning, it snowed and snowed. I think all told, we had about 12-14 inches of snow. We had a little trouble getting out…

Books of 2021

I read more books than I have since I started keeping track, and it was fun, but less fulfilling than I’d hoped to read a lot of books. I have some tweaks to make for next year, but for now, here’s the list for the archives, and some reflection. * indicates e-reader ^^indicates audio 1)…

Christmas in Steamboat

As usual, Christmas was thrilling for the whole family. The little guys could barely contain their excitement. Santa came, leaving a Lego for Porter and Harlan, some trucks that he picked up from another house and left second hand in Steamboat. Unfortunately, Harlan recognized them… Seamus got a beautiful illustrated book of ski maps and…

Lead Up to Break

We had a solid run up to Christmas, with some lovely traditions. We added some new things. For the first time, we put some lights on our bushes outside. I took Porter and a friend to see Junie B Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, a play at the community center that Porter’s friend was performing in.…

Back to School

Well, I took a long break from blogging after summer. I do have one more beach trip to report on, but it will have to wait. It was a fun one! Today, I want to write about our back to school 2021. Seamus and Gilbert are in middle school, which is great for them. They…

Continued Olympic National Park

I think I left off after our sunset at Kalaloch Beach. It was gorgeous and we felt rejuvenated by the light. The next day, we got some breakfast from the lodge, which was huge, greasy, and delicious. We headed into the Hoh rainforest, and for us this was starting to get weird, as we’d been…