Just a few photos from our July 2022 honeymoon in northern California, from jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, to garlic ice cream in Gilroy. As you might remember from the note in our last ALDI meal plan oh so long ago (OK, three weeks ago, but who’s counting), I’ve taken a couple weeks off …
Taking any interesting family vacations this summer? We recently got back from a little trip to Florida. Nope, not to Disney — to visit Nana in the beautiful Florida sunshine. Here’s our trip in photos, because they pretty much tell the story by themselves. 🙂 … Think Nana was just a little bit happy to see us? But …
I promised last week to tell you more about our spring break St. Louis trip, but then had such a weekend of catching up to do — and the kids are still on spring break through today, too! But better late than never, right? St. Louis was fantastic, and I highly recommend the trip. St. …
So, I’m back! Did you notice I was gone visiting my mom in Washington all week — and how we still sneakily kept things running all this holiday week long? Spokane Albertsons, by the way, is a bizarre parallel universe to Chicagoland Jewel — almost the same, but not quite right, lol. Here is a …
More on this crazy trip later, but the highlight here for me has been meeting and chatting with other bloggers. Yes, I have to go across the country to meet people from Illinois! 🙂 But now I can say I’ve played Potato Heads with Jill Cataldo — who has a much more thorough writeup of …
In between conference sessions today, a friend and I grabbed coffee at Plumes in Monterey. Their big selling point? Brewed by the cup coffee! You pick from an extensive list of flavors and types, and they’ll make you a fresh-brewed individual cup. How cool is that? I think we need one of these near my …