I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 7th, 2014
Derek had a conference this weekend on campus, and Hannah was flying into San Diego for a concert, with Eleanor driving down to meet up with her, so the kids and I decided to drive down to San Diego, too, and spend a couple nights in a hotel to hang out with our friends. While […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Mar 6th, 2014
We try to do some kind of field trip with Katie and Jack every week or so. This week, we stayed in TO and visited the Gardens of the World Botanical Gardens with sketching materials.
Tommy had his Lego Birthday party today! We had to postpone a week so that Jonah would be back from vacation to come. I told Tommy it was going to be old-school and pretty simple, so we played some basic lego building games and ate cake. Janie miraculously slept through the whole thing (a benefit […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Feb 13th, 2014
This week, Katie and Jack met us up in Santa Barbara again for me to buy my new camera lens (!!!) and check out the little sea center that’s part of our SB Natural History Museum membership. It was pretty small, but I think we actually enjoyed ourselves more than at the Monterey Bay Aquarium […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Susanna, Tommy on Jan 27th, 2014
On Saturday, we met Jack and his parents at the Moorpark Teaching Zoo, just up the road! It’s pretty small, but we got to watch them feed the cougar. It was such a perfect, warm afternoon that we had to get a couple of photo shoot pictures, too.
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Jan 13th, 2014
Lisa Simpson was my college Bible study leader, dear friend, mentor, and matron of honor. We used to hang out all the time when we lived close to each other. But it has been a whopping four years since we last were able to get together! The winter weather squashed our original plans to meet […]
Posted in Friends on Jan 6th, 2014
Last week, I was lucky enough to spend most of the day Thursday at Leann’s after dropping Derek off at the airport. 26 years of bosom friendship and counting…how I treasure our friendship! And on Friday night, Katie took me out to dinner, and we talked for hours. The traditional Em-and-Katie photo shoot pose […]
Posted in California, Friends, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 8th, 2013
The kids and I just got back from a long weekend in Monterey, visiting the DeBords. We missed their wedding because we were flying to Switzerland that week, so I had never met Tristan! It was a pretty low-key visit, mostly hanging out, playing at some local playgrounds, and watching football. The big kids and […]
This morning, Tommy got to go all by himself to see “A Christmas Carol” with Jonah. He’s getting so big! Afterwards, the girls and I met up with everybody at CPK for lunch. 5 moms and 21 kids…it’s gotta be a homeschool group!
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 25th, 2013
We finally made it for our annual trip to Underwood Farms to get pumpkins!