have kids, will adventure
Happy New Year! We welcomed 2023 with friends – clinking champagne flutes with New York, New York serenading the group as we wished each other a happy new year. Celebrating New Years Eve with military friends was a reminder of how much can change in a year. We have only known everyone standing in our
It’s hard to ignore the looming shadow of the delta variant casting shade on a summer that once felt rejuvenating. We’re vaccinated so it is admittedly frustrating to see the numbers spike in areas of the country with dismal vaccination rates. Our family is performing the delicate dance of living our lives and performing risk
Happy Monday! It’s a new week, a new opportunity, and hopefully a new attitude for yours truly. Last week was rough. The weight of pandemic life despite being vaccinated felt more suffocating than usual and a few painful procedures were more than enough to weaken what minuscule ounces of positive vibes that remained. And Saturday
Illinois is flat – second only to Florida in the contest of being the flattest in the United States. The suburbs of Chicago boast very little topographical relief and the act of climbing uphill feels novel and exciting if you get so lucky. For this reason alone, northern Illinois will never be remembered as one
Yesterday afternoon we ventured onto Fort Belvoir to check out the trails associated with the Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge. Maintained by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge is home to deciduous forests, meadows, and freshwater tidal marshes. There is a trail head located outside of Tulley Gate with a handful of
And Then We Laughed 