Dad and I took a little side trip to Ireland while he was here. I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this trip: the weather was cool (I LOVED wearing a jacket, as it’s still so hot here!) and unusually…
Here are the next set of photos from Dad’s visit. O’m pretty sure he loved the cappucino, pastires and pizza even more than he loved seeing us! Thanks again for visiting us, we sure loved having you.…
My Dad came!!!! We had a whirlwind trip of touring some of the area’s highlights. Dad was so excited to see everything, so it was SO MUCH FUN to be a tourist with him! Here are some photos,…
After Matera, we visited the Calabrian coast, including the beach at Rocca Imperiale Marina and the town of Trebisacce, where we spent the next two nights. I’d been craving the turquoise, clear sea all summer, and I was…
For Labor Day weekend Matt got a 4-day weekend so we headed toward the south of Italy. Our first stop was Matera. From Wikipedia: Known as la città sotterranea (“the underground city”), its historical centre “Sassi” contains ancient cave dwellings.…
Typically I wouldn’t devote a whole blog post just to a family picnic, but I picked up my “real” camera for the first time in maybe a year, and I liked the photos. Similar to the lake, family…
We have found that there are certain things that really work for our family, that bring us a sense of peace and unity, and that just work for each one of us. The lake is one of them. …
Cedar and I took a trip by ourselves to Rome, where we joined his Boy Scouts Troop on a ten-mile historic trail. We ate tasty food just the two of us, spent the night, and had a lot…
A Carney Park picnic with friends, lots of kid-friend visits and sleepovers (including Ashton’s first ever 4-girl sleepover!), pool time, a date with Matt to a dinner-and-concert-fiasco-adventure, a beach trip, a hike that I lost the photos from…
We arrived at the coast in the bay of Kotor and found our super cute Airbnb, which had awesome views of sea, beach, and mountains. Over the next several days, we drove much of the Montenegro coast and…
