Category: Favorite Places

A truly incredible weekend! After a lot of hard work getting our house ready for a big faculty barbecue, we woke up Saturday morning to drastically cooler (and rainy) weather. Knowing we could not feasibly fit 30 adults inside our house, we scrambled and hoped for the gray skies to pass… and they did, just … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

I was one lucky mama this weekend; I got to spend the whole weekend with my littlest man Emil while Andrew took Oliver and Milo to North Carolina to see their cousins. Of course I missed the big boys and Andrew, but it was the first time I have had Emil to myself for this … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

This past weekend we made it back to the Missouri Botanical Gardens, one of my absolute favorite places in St. Louis. This was a special trip, though, because in the four years we have lived here, Andrew had never been! We finally made the trip as a whole family and we had such a great … Continue reading “Missouri Botanical Gardens”

Man, oh, man. I know I’ve said it before, but what a difference weather makes! Finally we experienced some nice cool days. The boys and I went it alone for most of the time- Andrew was out of town Friday and Saturday, then made it home just in time Saturday night for a neighborhood pizza … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

Perhaps our kids will think us cruel some day for it, but we have yet to throw our kids an actual birthday party (well, other than Milo’s third birthday, where we invited some neighbors over and threw the kids in the back yard with some cupcakes). Part of it has to do with the fact … Continue reading “Milo & Eliza at the City Museum”