It was this time last year that I began this blog. That weekend I thought about it on the drive up and the drive back from our annual amusement park trip – how I would start it, what it would be. The two of us tossed around titles and subtitles, themes and mastheads. The first…
Tag: trips
McRamblings
We never set out to avoid McDonald’s. We never set out to raise a child who will not eat a french fry, a Chicken McNugget, not even a Happy Meal. We never thought we’d have a kid who, at five, doesn’t even know what a Mc-anything is. But we do, and we have, and she…
scenes from a (river) weekend
We had a nice change of pace this past weekend when we packed up the car and headed north up the mighty Mississippi to stay with, and boat with, great friends. Saturday was a gorgeous day with blue skies and puffy white clouds and the most pleasant eighty degrees I’ve ever felt. The water was…