The Rest of 2021
A quick catch-up for posterity, family, or whoever takes the time to read this post.
March 2021
March was a good, but busy month. Even in a pandemic it’s still March madness.
December 2020
Time slipped away again, here’s a quick December recap.
November 2020
In October, I think we were as relaxed as we had been during the entire pandemic. In November, we started to tighten up more. Between the election and COVID cases rising, the first week of November was a bit stressful.
November 2019
The first weekend of November, we went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. They had two exhibits we though the kids would really like: Extreme Sports and the Science of Pixar
March 2018
March is always an exciting and busy month at our house: birthdays, anniversaries, pi(e) day, spring break. This March was especially busy (in good ways). Here’s a recap of all the non-spring break adventures. (I’ll write about those in a separate post.) At the beginning of the month, we visited some good friends of ours that recently moved to Loveland. We spent the whole day chatting and letting the kids play. It’s so nice when you come across a friend…
Cooper at Seven
Cooper turned seven this week. I know every mom says this, but he’s growing up so fast! He’s a full on big kid now – he doesn’t even need me to walk him to his line before school (although sometimes I still do and am sad when he forgets to wave goodbye to me). He has a few good extroverted friends at school that have been really good at helping him break out of his shell. He has a budding…
Miss E at Five
Miss Ellen turned five this last week. I was really worried that in the midst of all our preparation and travels for the funeral she would feel overlooked, but instead she basically got to celebrate her birthday for an entire week. She had a party in Cedar City, UT with my family a few days before her birthday. We all rented a condo together through VRBO and had a party after Glenna’s funeral. She also got several gifts from Noel’s…
Cooper Turns 6
This year, Cooper was sick the week of his birthday. He had a rough couple of nights with a croupy cough and I kept him home for two days. The day before his birthday, Ellen was inconsolable from the moment she woke up. She had a fever and just wanted to be held. I gave her medicine and it finally seemed to kick in after about an hour when she became deliriously happy. After 45 minutes she crashed again and…
Ellen Turns Four
Ellen has been looking forward to her birthday since Christmas. (Admittedly, I felt very much the same way four years ago about her birth day, but with a lot more hormonal angst.) For months she would frequently tell us, “My birthday’s next!” This year, her birthday fell on a Monday which is a pretty busy (and very Cooper-centric) day for us and I was really worried about how to make the day feel special. The Saturday before her birthday we took…