Birthdays!

We celebrated Zach’s 7th Birthday with dinner at Bennihana’s! His favorite! On the way home, he told me 60 + 60 = 120. And then he told me how he figured it out… 50 + 10 = 60. So if he added 50+50, he got 100. Then he needed to add 10+10 to get 20. […]

New computer

I’m typing this post from my new Mac Book Pro. This, according to Matt, is part of our master plan to become fully mobile. No more desktop computers. ummm…hmmm…. It was not, however, on our master get-out-of-debt plan. But since my desktop computer died yesterday, Matt jumped at the chance to get us (me) a […]

Big Families

Matt and I come from really big families… We both grew up with tons of cousins, aunts, uncles, and grand-parents. I think that is one of the reasons we were meant for each other. If you are not from a big family, you won’t get it. But we get it.  We get the big gatherings. […]

A Post a Day…

Until We are Under Way!  So… I was thinking today… I should probably do something (even if it is just a little thing) every day to work towards our goal of sailing around the world on a boat with our family. In my previous post, Next Steps – I listed 7 things we needed to do […]

9 More Months

We decided two days ago that we will put our house on the market in April 2013. That is 9 months from now. So, naturally, this decision is now my (metaphorical) baby, that will be nurtured. 🙂 Here’s my problem… I am pretty sure (positive) that I will feel like we are missing out on […]