Family
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Sister New Year
I’m in California for the new year and today my sister and I spent numero uno driving through the Santa Monica Mountains until we reached our destination of Malibu Beach. It had rained on New Year’s Eve and the hills were verdant and a little foggy. At the beach the air was misty with ocean spray and lingering wetness from the rain. We got calamari and fish for lunch at the famed restaurant, Neptune’s Net, where the salty air married with the scents and flavors of fresh seafood, lemon, and vinegar. We talked about the power of intentions and decided that one of our resolutions would be to set more…
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Back to the place that I love
After going over a year without my gym membership, I felt like a bear waking from a long hibernation and rolling out of my cave to remember movement again when my daughter and I went back yesterday. At home, I do have a place for yoga and a walking mat, but it’s not the same as officially venturing out for a public swim or workout. Besides, I’ve always been a waterbaby and love a good swim! I had cancelled my membership because it’s now an hour drive for me, but I didn’t find anything closer to me that compared. My favorite thing about this place is that they have several…
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A California Halloween
Almost every year I go to California to visit family, however I had never been there at Halloween, until this year. During my visit, I got to see my sisters and nieces and enjoy lots of great food, shopping, and fun, including seeing my niece and her fiancé perform in Haunted Hollywood, don our bug costumes at a truck or treat at the school where my sister teaches, and celebrate my other niece’s birthday at Disneyland during Halloween week! I have to admit that I love the original Disney park in all its California glory! It was really cool seeing it decorated for Halloween, and especially experiencing the Nightmare Before…
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Summer in the Pacific Northwest
August brought some good times with family in Oregon this summer, from city to mountains to coast. Here are some of the highlights. Fantastic birthday celebration at a haunted themed restaurant in Portland, Oregon called Raven’s Manor Trip to Three Sisters Mountains in Oregon, with stops along Santiam River and Suttle Lake A walk of Saint Helens, Oregon Little Swimming Hole at the Washougal River in Washington State Adventures at Seaside, OR My Curiouser and Curiouser List: Oregon and Washington
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Hey (Cat) Ladies!
From a mom and cat lady to all the childless cat ladies out there: we all just out here living our best life! So grateful I chose to bring these angels into mine 😇
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Easter Sunday at the Tulip Festival
Easter Sunday and the Myriad Botanical Gardens Tulip Festival with these chickadees 🐣
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Stained Glass Sunday
This Sunday my daughter and I took a little road trip to Oklahoma City to take a stained glass class together at Strange Earth Studios. Here we made stained glass tulips in celebration of spring. It was a gray, cool, drizzly day outside, which we both loved, and inside the studio we started our projects by picking our glass pieces. We learned to cut glass, as well as to grind glass and to sauter (which, apparently, is an incorrect spelling of “solder,” but I’ve never seen “solder” used in this way before so I’ll just stick with “sauter” for now). We had a great time learning a new craft together,…
