Today, on the 9th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, and just two short weeks after a shooting at high school in Oxford, Michigan, I am grieving with all the families who have lost someone to gun violence, especially the families of the students and teachers. I am also reliving the trauma of …
Today is LEON Day – June 25. LEON spelled backwards is NOEL, and marks that it is six months until Christmas. It also happens to be a day that my Grandpa made up, or at least, is the first person I ever heard make mention of it. We’ve been celebrating LEON Day as a family …
We are halfway through the Major League Soccer Stadium Tour (until expansion teams join in 2020), so here’s a quick recap of the teams and the stadiums we have seen on the MLS Stadium Tour thus far, along with the other teams we saw through the years. Official MLS Stadium Tour Visits Seattle Sounders: The March …
Hubby, the kiddo, and I recently spent a week in Sydney, Australia. Hubby has visited several times for work, but I have never been able to join him. After every trip, I make him promise that I can tag along the next time he goes. That means he had to plan it far enough in …
I’m working on a blog post about my trip to Australia that’s taking longer than I thought. It’s coming, I swear! In the meantime, take 30 seconds to enjoy this gorgeous and peaceful sunrise over the Pacific Ocean that I captured one morning.
I am writing this post as I watch my kiddo embark on his first solo class at The Little Gym. It has been almost three years since we first started classes at The Little Gym, but as I observe him through the window, memories of our first parent-child class are as fresh as the memories …
To read more about how the stadium came to be, read this background post. I mentioned that I was pregnant during Stadium Tour #4, and my son was born in Fall 2015. So, for Stadium Tour #5, we had to add the new logistics of accommodating a baby and his need to eat. I’m going …
To learn more about the history of the Stadium Tour, read this. Our third stadium tour took us to the StubHub Center (now the Dignity Health Sports Park), home of the LA Galaxy and Chivas USA (at that time). Our trip was scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend in 2014, the year of the World Cup …
The 2019 Major League Soccer schedule is going to be announced shortly, which means that planning for the 8th Annual Stadium Tour is underway! I’ve talked about the history of the stadium tour before (or read this for an overview of where we’ve been), but I don’t think I’ve ever really talked about my Sis …
My days also involved having a friendly server come around asking me what she could bring me to drink, as if nothing would give her greater pleasure than to bring me a glass of water.