In years past, I have more or less diligently blogged our biannual family tradition: Traveling to Kauai with our one child as he grows, plus grandparents and aunt. This was our fourth trip, so I thought I’d do things a…
This post has nothing to do with motherhood, or my Grandmother’s passing. Except that since becoming a mother I’ve had less time and money to eat out fancy, and my Grandmother loved a good white-tablecloth restaurant, so tangentially, it fits.…
Question: How long does it take to drive to Los Angeles from Oakland, when squiring a newly-minted 4-year-old child? Important related question: How long did it used to take? (Answer: 4.5 hours—pretend this was written upside-down because that would make…
The last day of our trip. How to spend it? In the morning, Jonah realized his dream, hatched the night before during the 4 hour drive home from Alamogordo, of creating a “model train” out of cardboard boxes and lengths…
What a day! Too tired to download and post photos. Or even explain in a detailed manner. Best shot: We slept in the trailer on Aunt Dorothy’s front driveway, woke up and played in said trailer for a while. Went…
I will back date this post but I can hardly hold up the ruse as I’ve already written today’s post and as you have seen or will see, I am wringing this info out of one tired brain. Yesterday we…
Today we continued our quest for food that is smothered in cheese and green chile. Did you know there is an official Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail? We ate at one of the official locations, the Magdalena Cafe. Yes, it is…
This kid is cleaning up for his 4th birthday. We actually started before we left town. I picked up a water bottle at Whole Foods with space illustrations on it. (Nevermind that the illustrations are inaccurate: their version of Saturn…
