New routine: *long run, *soccer practice for Hugo (flailing around in grass for Maisie), *donuts on the green.
Repeat each week.
9/24/20
9/22/20
A finished basement.
9/15/20
Wyoming, Part 2.
We hiked up the Grand Tetons to Amphitheater Lake, which was one of the most stunning places I've ever been. Went for a swim in the freezing glacial water. Ran the six miles down. Went to a rodeo and a chuckwagon dinner where we danced into the night. Took a side-by-side nearly all the way to Idaho, returned caked in dirt and brambles.
9/10/20
Wyoming, Part 1.
From a bachelorette trip out west, the weekend that our girl intended to get married before COVID struck. We made the most of it - stayed in a A-frame at the entrance to Yellowstone, went for a freezing dip in Yellowstone Lake one evening, wandered the wilderness with our bear spray, shared a chocolate cake and watched the geysers bubble. These friendships are a rarity. I love them so.
9/3/20
First day of school.
8/28/20
Bedtime stories.
a favorite evening pastime: chapter books in bed. last month we journeyed to Neverland, this month Hogwarts. we cuddle close under blankets, do all the voices, sometimes pause at a beautiful line.
this one of note: "I suppose it's like the ticking crockodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us."
8/24/20
Stowe 2020.
from a return to Stowe -- mornings at the pool and in the mountains, bike rides by the river, a hike to the top of Mount Mansfield, evenings of live music. a favorite tradition.
8/21/20
Blake: 33.
33 years old, and where would I be without him? A human encyclopedia, champion of dreamers, incapable of deceit. I love him so. Happy birthday, B.
8/17/20
A weekend.
from a weekend in August:
a Friday night with cousins.
a Sunday morning by the sea, in the rain.
a return to church (sans nursery, which proved a challenge), and how we've missed it.
a dinner with Blake's brother, visiting for the week.
a farewell to a friend, moving on to change the world with her PhD.
an exterior wall renovation (at last).
outdoor projects and runs in glorious fall-like weather.
more normalcy - with masks, with distancing, with hand washing - and I will take forward movement in any form.
8/13/20
From New Haven.
we've both been working in Blake's (very quiet) office in New Haven lately, and what a breath of fresh air it has been. to be working outside of the house - imagine! what a world we now live in. still one that occasionally allows a post-work date, it seems, and I can abide with that.
8/3/20
A dress.
my wedding dress: missing for a decade, found by my parents in a strange turn of events. it was an occasion that called for "The Book of Love" - danced to in the bedroom with the kids jumping around us. look at what ten years has brought us.
7/27/20
Smores.
7/21/20
Hugo reads.
From the week that Hugo started to read whole books. I'll never forget the look on his face when he read "The End."
7/15/20
Evening at the beach.
with our Maisie. a little more than two years, full of life and sass. how quiet this world seemed without her. how devoid of some important thing.
7/12/20
Bits of summer.
^^loads of LEGOs^^
^^ice cream truck visits^^
^^model T rides^^
^^picnics and pizza nights^^
^^cousins, totally unaware of how lucky they are to grow up together^^