I’ve been home a week now. The blizzard meant we got snowed out of NYC and spent an extra day in Indy. Spending an unexpected day with my sister and niece was awesome, but I was ready to get home. Walking the boys home from school on Wednesday on the Continue Reading
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#MicroblogMondays: The GREAT Grandma edition
Hopefully I will get around to writing more about our time in Indiana. But in case I don’t… My last living grandparent is turning 80 next month. We wanted to have a big surprise birthday bash for her, and my mom and aunt were nice enough to plan it for Continue Reading
#MicroblogMondays: Snow Delays & other observations
It snowed here on Saturday night. School was on a 2 hour delay today. And I get it, the county roads (and even some of the main ones) were icy this morning. But I was a bit unprepared for it when someone mentioned snow days last week. Living in NYC Continue Reading
#MicroblogMondays – Culture Shock
I am currently sitting in my Aunt’s kitchen in Indiana, in the town I grew up in. I dropped the kids at my moms house (a couple hours away) and am spending the next three weeks collecting my dissertation data. Being back here has been interesting. I have been preparing Continue Reading
#MicroblogMondays: Christmas crafty
Grad school and littles have made holidays, especially Christmas, a strange time of year for me. Babies are physically exhausting and thankfully we are moving out of that phase. But Grad school and teaching college puts the emotional exhaustion of the end of a semester right in the middle of Continue Reading