Respite

If I were to pick a word to describe this past couple of years, I think “challenging” would be barely adequate. It’s not just the numbers – going from five…
Read moreIf I were to pick a word to describe this past couple of years, I think “challenging” would be barely adequate. It’s not just the numbers – going from five…
Read moreThe last part of the afternoon on Saturday was divided between some shooting for Jake, Daddy and Laurent, and finally, one more hike down to the Carrizo Wash, this time…
Read moreWhile sightseeing with the kiddos along the ranch roads and looking for the best vantage points to see the pretty golden foliage, the kids were looking at other things. I…
Read moreWhile the board members were meeting at our cabin on Saturday morning, I thought it prudent to remove the hoard of children from the immediate vicinity and take them on…
Read moreOver the Memorial Day weekend, we took the family (minus Laurent, who had singing obligations, and Geneva, who wasn’t yet back from Texas) up to the ranch for some family…
Read moreWith a growing family including 10 kids plus miscellaneous other persons, it became incredibly unwieldy to travel anywhere with 3 vehicles. We decided in March to pare down the vehicular…
Read moreWe saved the best of our site seeing for Vicki’s last day in town, and zipped down to Tuscon on Friday morning to visit the beautiful historic site of the…
Read moreHaving properly feted my hubby’s birthday with dinner at Pei Wei, Vicki and I decided to head over to Westgate to see if we could take some pix of the…
Read moreOn the evening of March 3rd (which happened to be my esteemed husband’s birthday!), we took advantage of our in-house babysitting crew to manage the littles while Vicki, Paul and…
Read moreIt’s been more than a month, hasn’t it… Yep. Feb. 2 was my last post. I can’t even begin to think about catching up right now, either. There’s just too…
Read more… we had a little walk. The temperatures were crisp, for AZ, and the sky was as blue as blue can be. T’was a perfect day for walking in Old Town…
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