Really true when you’ve become a bird watcher! We had a 3 day weekend last weekend, the traditional holiday weekend that starts off summer. John and I both took Friday off, turning it into a very luxurious feeling 4 days off. It was quite refreshing, very glad to have taken…

We often come up with a theme for the year as a new year’s activity, and this year our theme was Exploration & Discovery, which referenced how different our vacation schedules would surely be, with no more tethering to the school calendar. It’s also a nod to the two classes…

I thought I’d see how it feels to not mention the week count since stay home began… pretty good so far! This week was momentous because, with Miles and Ashton here rather than away at school, we got to see year 1 of college come to a close. Here’s Miles…

This week had a lot of trademarks of a regular late April in the Great Lakes region: lots of rain and cool days toward the beginning of the week, warm and sunny days following, plant growth that seemed almost watchable, days of staying in completely and days of being able…

So we’ve passed six weeks, and staying at home is feeling like a new normal. John and I figured out some ways to better handle busy work weeks (order food instead of cooking everything was the big takeaway!), Miles and Ashton kept up with classes and started the accelerated workload…

I had intended to post about Miles’s birthday during the week, but this week ended up being very busy for John and I from a work point of view, and also fairly time-consuming in terms of regular household stuff like cooking, so that didn’t happen. But looking back, the birthday…

Hello, everyone! I’ve been gearing up for our 4th week in quarantine update when this delightful piece of content landed in my lap. Nyx has been having a great time with twisty-ties that came off a bundle of parsley. John captured just 15 seconds or so of Nyx’s half an…

Looking back on week 3 of work from home, which is the starting point that we’re counting from, this week had a “getting used to the new normal” feeling. Miles and Ashton had a full week of online classes, reconvening after spring break; our work from home schedules seemed to…

Quick mid-day, mid-week post to share some breakfast stuff happening around here this year. Not sure if I had mentioned this previously on the blog, but John and I stopped buying milk at the beginning of the year in an effort to lower our carbon footprint. We used to eat…

So we left off in the last post with the stay-at-home order going into effect, and I would stay that this week has been about adhering to the order and figuring out along the way how to do so. As readers know, we plan meals and cook a lot anyway,…