. Hi Reader, I hope you're doing well. I can't believe it's already mid-August. Wow. Where does the time go?! Ok, that's a rhetorical question, but just crazy it's almost back-to-school time. I realize that for some of you, your kids may already be back in school if they're school age. I hope it's going well if they are. Our kids don't start online school until the first week in September, so we still have a bit of time left. There are things we need to get set up before then, prepping for...

. Hi Reader, I hope your week is going well so far! Sorry I didn't email last week and am a bit late today. I'm guessing no one keeps track, but I wanted to apologize anyway. Last week, one of my twins ended up in Urgent Care on Monday Morning due to a big, deep owie that needed 3 stitches. I'll spare you the details and photos, but it was rough and meant he couldn't finish week 2 of swimming lessons last week with his brothers, which derailed some plans. Luckily, he's healing well and will...

. Hi Reader, I hope your week is going well so far! Last week, we were on vacation at a cabin, but it didn't go well. It's our one vacation of the year, and honestly, looking forward to it really helped me through the loss of my mom, etc. BUT...it fell flat. It was one thing after another. We ended up booking 9 days instead of the usual week that we do, because this place we rented was new to us and through Airbnb we had to do 9 days for some reason. That ended up being a good thing though,...