my journey, destination unknown
With this downsize move and Chloe’s starting school, our traveling lifestyle came to a sad, screeching halt. I miss it. Last January, we had a weekend at the cabin, a quick roadtrip to DC, a luxurious week at the Ritz in Fort Lauderdale and a frigid couple days in New Orleans. This January? We started…
This weekend, the girls and I participated in the Run with the Dogs 5K and much to my (and her) surprise, my Chloe won third prize in her age group. No training, ran in jeans, walked with me for the first half mile, but she still managed to rock! (I have no idea how *I*…
Our family joke when we see a house that is collapsing in on itself is that it isn’t a “fixer upper” but that it is a “knocker downer”. Each year, the girls and I make a different gingerbread creation, such as a gingerbread tree, gingerbread village, etc. (all from kits, I’m not that creative). And…
The girls didn’t want to do it. They didn’t want to get up early on a Saturday. They didn’t want to go out in the cold. (Cold? It was in the mid-50s at 8am!) They really didn’t want to walk 3 miles. But, I got them out the door and over to Decatur High School…
Okay, sure, I can’t imagine that anyone at the Decatur Library has noticed, but I’ve been on a bit of a borrowing spree. At least this kind won’t adversely affect my credit rating. (Except that this story of the police coming after a 5-year old with overdue books has me checking my library account daily…
Despite having three cars at our disposal, the girls and I have gone for three days without using a car. That’s a fair carbon offset for Rob’s flights to Hong Kong last Sunday, right? Right? While I know it is silly to think that my little experiment is going to save the planet, I know…
I didn’t sleep well at all last night. Why is it that every appliance in the condo must inform us that the power has gone off and come back on? Beep Beep Beep. All. Night. Long. Add into the mix some aches and pains, and it was a rough night. I finally gave up at…
During the weeks before Christmas, I let the list of things that needed to get done weigh me down. In fact, I let these tasks weigh me down so much that I couldn’t do them. Instead of just tackling them, I let them strangle me. And then I found that I wasn’t enjoying the Christmas…
Today we wandered around Blue Ridge for quite a bit. Chloe didn’t get these ornament trees, but I like the reflections we could see in them.
In a few minutes, I will post my last photo-a-day to the blog for 2011. This year, I posted my daily photo to this blog for much of the year, to Picasa and to facebook. In my 2008 daily album on picasa, I posted 202 photos. In my 2009 daily album on picasa, I posted…
My back hurt today, so I didn’t get in my 10K steps. But we did get out for a little walk around the cabin where I spotted this.
Rob headed over to Sawicki’s to pick up a nice loaf of French bread and some yummy breakfast pastries for us to eat before we tackled picking up, cleaning and packing.
At long last we finally made it to the Atlanta Botanical Garden to see the lights !! Stunning — I’m so glad that we made it in the end.
As we worked through the idea of our downsize move and talked about what it was that we hoped to gain from the move, one of the ideas that I was hoping to pursue was that of living locally. Now that we’ve settled in and we’ve started to try to “live local”, I’m questioning what…
I will be missing these lights when they come down for the season!!
Is it an age thing? Am I lacking on some vital nutrients? I used to be able to multitask efficiently. There’s no way I could have worked, traveled, homeschooled, gardened, de-cluttered, blogged and the rest if I wasn’t multi-tasking every second of the day. But these days, not only do I stink at multi-tasking, I…
We finally, FINALLY, got to the Darwin exhibit at Fernbank yesterday. Highly recommended, but you are running out of time. Get there tomorrow!
It should no longer came as any surprise to me, but I’m once again reminded of how “unhip” I am. Everyone around me is making fun of Christmas “brag letters” saying how much they despise them as being ridiculous and how they think the letters that make fun of the sincere ones are “hysterically funny”….
It was a very Doctor Who Christmas. We watched a few episodes as well as the Christmas Special. In addition, Chloe made lots of Doctor Who characters out of play-doh….
We had a nice quiet day around town. Lunch out, way around the square in the evening. A beautiful, relaxing day.