Well, the momcation is over (isn’t that word terrible? It ranks up there with preggers. I HATE that word.) and I think today my brain is starting to function in the correct time zone again. I got home Tuesday night where I was greeted by an apprehensive Mackenzie, a bouquet-of-flowers-holding Nathan and PC.  My wonderful (seriously, [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy, Iowa and Corn Make Me Happy, fancy backpack

This morning I went to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned. Since it was a 7am appt PC dropped Nathan off at school and we were going to swap Mackenzie at work. I called when I was finished to let him know I was on my way and he informed me “they were just [...]

Filed under: Travel, fancy backpack

*There might be some typos in here. Its 9:30 and I don’t have it in me to go through and fix them tonight. I went running today and (sadly) Im spent (I haven’t even watched LOST yet!)
Im a big fan of the ziptop clear bags and before a trip I sit down with a sharpie [...]

Filed under: Because I'm NICE like that, Travel, fancy backpack

Im working on a travel post for you all. Well, if Im being really honest its sort of more for me. I keep telling myself every time I pack Im going to make an OFFICIAL PACKING LIST of sorts. And then I get busy packing and think, oh I’ll do it when I get home [...]

Filed under: Travel, fancy backpack

Part of my lack of posts is because of the cloud of woeful homesickness that has been clinging to me like my shadow, partly due to health problems (Its been me for the last 3 weeks this time) and partly laziness, well, I guess thats it.
I’ve been saying that my luck was going to change, [...]

Filed under: Travel, fancy backpack

I had to do that. It seems that for the last several years my birthday has coincided with a trip. One didn’t necessarily cause the other, it just turned out that way. Its created a bit of a Pavlovian response in my husband I think “Lisa’s birthday……where should we go?” One year it was Iwakuni. [...]

Filed under: The Whole Wide World, Travel, fancy backpack

I was reading a blog today that had a link to this article. I took an anthropology class in college about the Mayans. It was a really interesting class, and you may or may not know that the Mayans predict(ed?) the world will end Dec 12, 2012. On the one hand, pffft. On the other [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life, fancy backpack

PC just wrote me and told me he is stuck in Chicago because his flight has been cancelled. He said he is waitlisted on the next one with little hope to get on and booked on the 6pm flight. You guys…..if this happens to me…..it might be the day the world ends and you will [...]

Filed under: Travel, fancy backpack

3 suitcases, 2 regular backpacks, 1 fancy backpack, 1 carseat, 1 stoller, 1 bag of food, one uncle, one mom, two kids. Here we go.

Filed under: Travel, fancy backpack

Its good to be home and get back into the swing of things. A few pictures from the trip:

Filed under: Travel, fancy backpack