Late last year, Mike and I planned a trip away for just the two of us. Call it a Five Year Anniversary trip, or a babymoon, or just a getaway. We did one when Caroline was 3 months old and again when she was 14 months old, but we hadn’t gotten away since Vivi arrived on the scene. We did manage to travel to Florida no fewer than NINE times in 2019, but our girls always came, too. Luckily, Kay…
Vivi turned 14 months old in January and LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A WALKER! Sure, she took her sweet time, had to constantly be coaxed by Suelen even to try to walk, and would take a step once then switch back to crawling, but she has DONE it. I mean, she still likes to be carried everywhere, and we are still not in the habit of putting her in shoes (her new ladybug shoes took forever to get here!)…
This past weekend was gorgeous and sunny and felt more like June than January. We celebrated by spending lots of time outside, playing at parks and letting Caroline perfect her scootering skills. On Saturday, she scootered all the way to (and from) Troy Park, our neighborhood playground that is actually really close to our house but feels 1000 miles away when you are carrying a toddler. We left Vivi at home napping with Mike and set out and I was…
We left a fantastic Kearney Christmas weekend midday on Sunday and arrived around dinnertime to Matt & Tommie’s house in St. Pete Beach. I rode with my parents and both little ladies in their new Explorer (with a car seat borrowed from Louis–thanks Louis! I am #momoftheyear and totally forgot Caroline would need a seat for the drive. Welp. Can’t think of it all, all the time!) Louis drove Mike and Matt had his family in the Lincoln. It was…
Right before Christmas Day, Vivi Girl turned 13 months old. And even though she took TWO tiny (but significant) steps right before my birthday, she has not taken any more since then. I think she really likes being carried around! She celebrated in style in Florida, enjoying Disney Springs for the day, the Kearney Christmas Weekend Extravaganza in Vero Beach, and finally, topping off her trip with a week-long vacation in St. Pete Beach, where she enjoyed boating, beach time,…
The Big 4-0 was looming…all year, it felt like it was there hiding, waiting for me. And then suddenly, here it was. Four decades…that’s a long time! I was excited for it (I am one of those weird people who loves my birthday) and also at the same time, I do not feel 40. I felt more like a solid 28. Except do feel like I have gotten 40 wonderful years of experiences under my belt—travels, building friendships, growing family,…
Christmas was wonderful and magical and relaxed this year. Turns out that traveling with a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old isn’t too bad when you go places that already have everything you need for them, haha! Also, we broke it up into a few little segments…we flew into Orlando early Friday morning (December 20) and spent a half day walking around Disney Springs, then headed to Vero Beach for Kearney Christmas. On Sunday (December 22), we packed up and drove to…
The Christmas season snuck up on us this year. We went from Halloween (in Florida) straight into November and celebrating Vivi’s birthday, then packing for Thanksgiving in Alpharetta, and then we came home and boom–December was upon us. Knowing we had a short time to celebrate the season, since we were heading back to Florida on December 20th, Mike and I decided we better get to it! First up, the first weekend in December, on the Agenda of All the…
After a whirlwind week celebrating our Birthday Girl, we headed down to Alpharetta, GA for a few days to celebrate Thanksgiving with Mike’s family. It was extra special because his parents joined us from Lowell, MA this year. They had had a rough year health-wise and while Mike had seen a lot of them this year, the girls and I had not seen Grandpa Harry and Nana since May. It was delightful to get to spend time with them. We…
The day after Vivi’s Birthday Bash, we loaded up the family in two cars and headed over the river and through the woods to take freezing cold family pictures at a local park. I am crazy but really wanted them to be outside, where the light is so much better! Well it was exciting to say the least…Vivi clung to me like a baby koala, Caroline wanted nothing to do with any of it, and did I mention everyone was…