Living in Munchkinland

I know. I haven't written on the blog in forever. But now I have time and I am catching up. After we got back from Texas, we all just relaxed and caught up and enjoyed summer in Colorado. Davis attended a bat mitzvah, we went hiking in Boulder at Chatauqua and then had sushi and enjoyed Pearl Street. We played with our dogs and the kids played 8 million games of kickball in the green space, rode their bikes to the park and killed each other in Fortnight. Michael was home which was nice and we played ping pong every evening. The first week of August was lovely domesticity and we truly enjoyed our last summer days.

After our NYC trip, we flew home, picked up Sam the next day, and the following day we flew to Texas to see Davis and my mom. We had a wonderful time on our trip despite the heat. My nephew Kade came and stayed with us and he is such a pleasure to be with. We did two escape rooms, swam in the pool, visited Pinballz Kingdom, ate at Casa Maria, visited on the porch with Jamey, hosted a pool playdate and grill out with Cheris and the kids, visited GG, made home made dairy free banana pudding, saw Shelly King play at Rileys, took walks with my mama, had lunch at Moonshine, got the kids Whataburger, swam some more, saw my sister and gave her a birthday present and spent some quality time with her and attended my cousin Lilly's engagement party. It was a really nice time and so good to be with my family. I was sad Michael couldn't come, but he got so much done around the house while we were gone and the dogs were happy he was there with them.

On Sunday last, we got to the airport ready for Sam to fly to California to be with his grandparents and for Michael and I to fly to NYC. Sam got off just fine, but our flight to La Guardia was seriously delayed. Michael and I burned some lounge passes and went to wait out the delay in the united lounge and watch the final world cup match. After it ended we got a text that our flight was cancelled. NOOOOOOOOOO! My Broadway workshop was the following day and I did not want to miss it. In addition, we had tickets to Birdland that evening for the Django fest which was to be our special anniversary treat. It didn't matter. Flights were all booked or cancelled. Southwest idiots rebooked us for Tuesday evening- two days from then. I frantically moved points around and lost my mind. Finally we were re booked for a flight on Monday night. Monday evening we tried again and after multiple delays including several while sitting on the runway, we arrived in La Guardia at 2AM having missed t...

We are in the summer season of travel. We were home from Taos for only two days before we sent Davis to Texas on Monday and then left (or tried to leave ourselves the following Sunday). But during the week we enjoyed being home. I ran errands, Sam went to tennis, Michael and played pingpong. I took the kids to the pool. We watched the world cup. Sam played long hours at Puma park with his friends. We took the kids to the Highlands Ranch Ice Cream Social. We played Catan with Kara and Ben. I worked in my yard. I walked the dogs. We went and spent Saturday downtown at the Slow Food festival and then noodled around downtown. It was hot. But the sun was shining and we live in an absolutely beautiful town.

We spent a lovely week in Taos with the Lifford. It was difficult getting there as the La Veta pass was closed due to a terrible wildfire, but we made it eventually. We listened to old comedy shows to pass the time in our rental car and the kids were brilliant in the back. (We had Graham and Sam in our car.) The dogs came along and we all did just fine. We arrived in Taos and after a brief hiccup (we forgot our keys) we were in the house and happy. We went to the Gorge and had dinner and when we got back, Cheris had met Rob in Santa and Fe and had returned and we were a complete party. I had picked up a paper in town and realized that the entire Carson National Forest was closed due to wildfire danger. Nooooooooooo! All my dreams of hiking came crumbling down around me. We had to come up with new fun. Michael and Cheris and Rob all had work to do, but we partied around it. On Sunday we went white water rafting and had fun even though the water was SO LOW. That evening we grilled an...