Our building experiment in Sedona, Arizona has finally resulted in a livable house, and it has a scheduled closing date where it will change over from being under a construction loan to being under a regular mortgage. Whooohoooo! In case we have not already bored you to tears with details on this: the build is …
We’ve been backpacking with our now-teenager since he was 9 years old. And I’m talking about real wilderness backpacking in rugged terrain and extreme temperatures where you carry everything you need to survive, not “I did some walking in Europe with a backpack on” backpacking. I put in 6 years of backpacking as a teenager …
Remember that post I wrote about how we’re not selling everything to see the world? I admit that our plans for next summer sound a lot like we’re doing just that. But we’re not – we promise.
The original title of this post was “You Don’t Have to be Great at Everything You Like Doing” but then I thought “Forget that. You don’t even have to be good – at all – at stuff you like for it to still be worth doing.”
Happy Halloween, everyone! Okay, I admit it: I published this today mostly so I could use “spooky” in the title. If you’re just here to find out what we keep in cash in our emergency fund: it’s $22,635.00. You may now go back to eating all the good candy out of the stash your kids …
Don’t worry: I’m not about to lecture anyone on needing a more visibly diverse friend group. Appearances are often misleading (take that banner photo for instance*), and what your friend group looks like is not what I’m interested in talking about here.
As I mentioned in a recent post, we’ve been doing a lot of work on our current home, with the intention of selling it before our oldest goes to high school. Things still on the to-do list include new exterior doors and replacement of two light fixtures in the living room (all scheduled for this …
The ever-popular topic of “How much does travel cost?” is back! An acquaintance of mine was just asked about how she and her husband paid for their family’s 5-star, multi-month, international vacation. Fair question, I think, since they’ve been pretty public about how long and fancy the trip was. Her response was: “It’s not about …
Wow time is flying! I really had every intention when I started this blog of posting once a week. HAHAHAHAHAAAAA! *wipes tears from eyes* I guess once a month is going to have to suffice for now. As if two jobs and two kids and the usual summer travel and training for another endurance race …
As you may have already noticed, my family gets pretty excited about travel. My husband and I traipsed all over the globe together in our dating and just-married days, and now we’re very comfortable dragging the kids around the world with us. We’ve already started to nudge our oldest out of the Family Travel Nest.