A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. A wonderful mountain getaway. For our last summer break hurrah, we rented a cabin for a few days. It was GLORIOUS! It was a perfect mountain getaway–within a quick drive to some great fishing and also close to our most favoritist mountain town,…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. A Denver Getaway. Long ago we started the tradition of going to Pirate’s Cove Water Park every summer in Denver. It has a great lazy river, water slides and several pools to enjoy. We missed getting to go last year because of Covid,…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. Summer Learning Time. Each summer I try to keep my boys up with some sort of learning. I’ve done everything from work books, to reading time, to organized activities. Last year I discovered an online learning “game” of sorts called Adventure Academy. It’s from…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. Even More Summer Fun. This week, we rode bikes to another of our favorite neighborhood parks. It was kind of hot, so we decided to go explore the nearby creek and found a makeshift rope swing. What a blast! We also enjoyed…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. Summer Fun. We just finished our first week of summer break and got to do a lot of fun things. Our neighborhood is full of parks that the boys and I have been going to since they were little bitty. I love that…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. 8th Grade Graduation. Oh my heart. My older son, Morgan, is officially done with middle school and will be heading to high school next year. I can’t handle how fast this whole growing up thing happens. I still remember vividly dropping him off…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. I can’t believe we’re at 100 Coffee Breaks! That’s a lot of breaking for Coffee. Haha! Thank you for all who read these and comment. I appreciate your feedback so much! 1. A visit to the big store. Everyone in town is talking about…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1.The Scholastic Book Fair Sham–Er Uh Sale. It’s that time of year again–the Scholastic Book Fair. For those without school age children, this is where a large space is set up inside the school for a whole week with books to purchase. But not…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1.Yard Work. It’s that precarious time of year, when we Coloradans make attempts to bring our hopelessly dead looking yards back to life. In between snow storms we scurry about like a triage unit in desperate efforts to create some sort of greenery during our…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. E-Learning…..again. My boys are home for online school again. There was an increase in Covid cases at our school and with each case a two week quarantine for the entire class–teachers and all. It didn’t take long to do the math–there just weren’t…