Magic Moments

For the first time in our fifteen year marriage Tom is currently working a Monday through Friday schedule. To be honest, I'm not even sure how I feel about it. I long ago gave up even wishing for Saturday/Sunday weekends so it's been an adjustment. Since I much prefer to school the children when Tom isn't home, it's been great to reclaim Mondays as a full fledged school day. But a Monday through Friday work week is also a bummer because we now we have to go places on the weekends like normal people and that's when places are often crowded. We very much like going to zoos and museums during the week when no one is there. Anyway, we had wanted to have bigger plans on Labor Day, such as making a weekend trip to Niagra Falls, but we had to stay home and do some house projects and go to soccer games. We decided to just do a day trip and explore more of West Virginia on Monday. We drove to Brush Creek Falls and while it certainly wasn't Niagra, it was quiet and pr...

It's been so long I almost forgot how to blog. But as with everything else we're trying to get back into the swing of things so I'm here and I'm trying to catch up. In short, we had a wonderful summer. Better than wonderful, actually, if that's even possible. There is no better place for three little boys than running barefoot along the lakefront with all their cousins. Even after spending 18 years at the cabin I still pinch myself. I still can't get over it. It's still just as magical as it ever has been....maybe even more so. It gets better every year. That must be part of the cabin magic promise. The boys fished. And swam. And ran. And caught turtles. And kayaked. And went tubing. And made s'mores. And played board games. And had a boat parade. And did just about everything else imaginable. It's almost painful to write about because I miss it so much. It's pushing 100 degrees here with no end in sight and it's so humid it feels like you ha...