We are five weeks into our first year of homeschooling. I’d be lying if I said it’s been easy. I’m an introvert. My daughter is an extrovert. Who almost never stops talking. I’m exaggerating a tiny bit but really, the hardest part of this whole journey has been all me. I need alone time to […]

We bought a membership to the Monterey Bay Aquarium last year thinking we would make the time to go out and visit a few times. We have literally been once in the last year. ONCE. I’m going to try to make it at least one other time before the membership expires so I don’t feel […]

These images were taken when the salt flats were drained. They are currently under water at the Alviso Marina. From my understanding, they are not drained very often and we were lucky to have caught them when we did!

School started on August 30, so the week before we headed to San Diego and Orange County for a last minute vacation to end the summer. We usually drive down, but tickets were super cheap and we used points for the rental car and most of our hotel so it ended up being a fairly […]

I’ve been meaning to blog these since September when we took this trip, but work and life got in the way, but better late than never, right? We drove out to Tahoma Labor Day weekend. We left around noon on Friday thinking we’d get a leg up on traffic and proceeded to sit in it […]