Did I have a writer? Did I have a mathematician? Did I have an athlete? Did I have an inventor? Did I have … At six, most kids don’t know what they want to be. Even if they exhibit high potential or even giftedness in a particular area. In Kindergarten, one of mine wanted to…
Did you vote yet? My husband and I voted before noon today. We had to register at a new polling place because of our move earlier this summer. Fortunately, we researched what we’d need to do that and took the appropriate documents. This included our Wisconsin driver’s licenses for our photo id and a bill…
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is here! Each year in November, writer’s from across the globe try to crank out a novel during this month! And this year, I am participating with seriousness! I first became aware of NaNoWriMo when my younger two boys were in middle school. They were encouraged to participate in the…
Today is Slice of Life Tuesday. Since I already wrote my Medium.com post today, I’ll keep this short. If you want to read it, you can go to the links at the end of this post. Thanks! Today my husband and I got our newest COVID-19 booster shots. It’s the vaccine with combined variants. At…
I didn’t realize how hard it might be to pack for a combined trip this fall after just moving ten short weeks ago! We went to New York to see my parents in July and didn’t have trouble packing but this is different. We are going to a wedding in Buffalo, and that means taking…
Yesterday, we took a trip to the Twin Cities to visit our youngest son and his girlfriend who live in St. Paul. We took our dog, Molly, a yellow (almost white) labrador. They recently rescued a dog who is tiny compared to Molly, a mix of Lhasa Apso, Australian Shephard, Shitzu, Terrier, and Chihuahua according…
Post office – check Reason 1 – Mail five jewelry sales and one poetry book sale at the local post office. Reason 2 – Buy packing tape because the tape I had from our move is “lost!” Look up post office hours on the internet before driving into town. Note they are closed for two…
Ever since an early age, I knew what the word Manitou meant. Manitou is generally understood to be Algonquin for Great Spirit. My mom, a teacher and a lover of vocabulary, was able to satisfy my curiosity when I asked, “what does manitou mean” when I was younger than ten. We lived by Manitou Road…
We’ve only been here since Friday. ‘Here’ is at our cabin in north-central Wisconsin. We built the cabin in 2005 after purchasing the land in 2001. We own 2 acres of lakefront property on which we built a timber frame cabin. My husband designed the cabin by researching timber-frame homes, building a scale model of…
We’re moving … in three days. Three days is all we’ve got to finish getting out of our house! Yesterday I started working on the kitchen. I packed some kitchen essentials that went to the lake house already (where we are moving), and they actually got unpacked last Saturday. But, as anyone with a kitchen…