It’s our last full week of summer, and the kids seems to be vacillating between relishing the last sweet days of August and having the end-of-summer blues. We have crammed a lot of pool- and seaside activities into this last week, and my clothesline has been completely full of towels and bathing suits. Football on...
My Summer Florida Vacation Growing up in Florida, life did not seem much like a vacation. Eternal summers made me wish for cooler (but not too cold) temperatures, and as soon as I could I flew the coop for a more moderate climate. Thankfully my family is still there, and so we make the trip...
A few months ago, Charley and I decided that the time was right to put a pool into our backyard. Our girls love to swim, they’re old enough, and our big, green lawn was just begging for a little something. After months of saving and planning, we finally broke ground at the end of May....
We have two daughters, and so the childhood obsession with trucks and heavy equipment has really passed us by . . . but I have to admit that I was over the moon this week when the big orange backhoe arrived in our backyard for our cement pond project. Yahoo, we have a swimming pool on...