Texas

#snowpocalypse and poor planning on the part of the Texas Electric grid means we’re experiencing a candle lit evening. So far every one is still having fun and it’s not too cold in here yet so we’re calling it an adventure.  

Well this is something I never thought I would see… a second real snow in the same winter. This one is light and powdery and is promising to hang around for most of the week thanks to freezing temperatures. There are no plows or salt/sand trucks down here so we’re all locked in and enjoying…

Zara made a #texassnowman – tiny, full of grass and leaves, but a legit snowman. We have the fastest snowflakes I’ve ever seen falling down here right now and could get up to 4 inches! The girls are over the moon.  

We found a mountain in Texas! Chris gave me a hiking trip to @enchantedrockstatenaturalarea for Christmas ( ♥️ experiences not things) and today I “cashed in” on my gift. We packed lunches, bundled up and drove about 1.5 hours, then spent the day hiking all around the mountain, through boulders, and up to the top.…

Our 1,000 piece project and today the girlie on the right turned 8. I was in and out of calls all day so was more than a little shocked by the ridiculousness in the Capitol when I finally saw the news at 4:55 pm. Sometimes life feels so surreal. It was a normal work day…

I can post a #Christmas picture the day after New Years, right? Because that’s totally where I am right now. Months behind on the socials from my work hard/play hard life during which I was either glued to my computer working to launch our new plugin or being a total luddite ignoring my phone. I…

Happy first birthday to my little Vivienne. There was no themed birthday party considering the times we’re in, but that’s alright. Probably, if we’re being honest, for a baby, that’s preferable. No weird things messing up her routine, just a nice day at home with the family, fun crawling around outside in the leaves, and…

Adelaide is 3.5! I wish I could say she had an incredible day, but unfortunately she has a cold of some sort passed to her from one of her sisters. (Definitely a cold and not anything else; said sister had a negative COVID test last week.) So I don’t think she was feeling great most…

Addie and I walked through rows and rows of flags set up to honor our veterans at a park near our house Friday and I tried my best to explain military service and democracy in a way a three year old would understand. She did seem to recognize the somber nature of a field filled…

Just dropping by to share this photo of me and my hubby from when we voted early last week. The big girls were at school, the little two were with their nanny, and so we used our #civicduty as the perfect excuse to go on a date for the first time in 13+ months. Voting…

Halloween this year is not like any other, but we figured out how to make it work. Earlier today we did a socially distant drive-by trick or treating with @sangabrieluuf (where everything was preprepared by people we know from church and the goodies were out in the front yard waiting for the kids – no…

We spent the weekend camping out at Chris’ dad’s farm and the herb garden he’s growing on his deck is inspiring me to put more effort into our little patch. We had a decent garden going this spring but it got totally neglected in the middle of August when we failed to realize our sprinklers…