This is the last of four posts recounting the story of our 2008 family vacation – the others are here, here, and here. Day 8: Williams, Arizona and the Grand Canyon The kids and I were going to be seeing the Grand Canyon for the very first time, and Tall Paul had arranged for us to go there via the Grand Canyon Railway. It’s not the fastest way there, since it takes 2.25 hours to […]
Day 6: Yellowstone to Provo, Utah After leaving my contacts out for a full day, my left eye looked and felt much better, and I decided that I’d go ahead and wear my glasses again for the coming day on the road. We got an early breakfast, loaded up the car, and headed out. Our first stop came pretty early – the general store at Grant Village, still inside the park. The Boy had bought […]
Day 3 – Logan, Utah to Yellowstone National Park Our drive on Monday continued up US 89 from Logan, and most of it was designated as “scenic route” on our AAA map. They weren’t lying. The road wound through the mountains, past lakes, and in and out of tiny towns (population 600), and there were times when it seemed like each view was prettier than the last. The road took us through a corner of […]
Parts of this post were previously published here. This is the first of four posts recounting our 2008 vacation – the others are here, here, and here. Day 1: leaving home, bound for Cedar City, Utah We actually got on the road when we planned to, so we seemed to be off to an auspicious start. The short-term goal was Vegas by lunchtime. We made the typical LA-to-Vegas pause in Barstow for a rest stop […]
This is a special guest post by a non-blogger (yes, they do still exist!). But I have been trying to encourage my sister Teresa to do more writing via a blog of her own, so I hope you’ll leave her some encouraging comments! Find out a little more about her at the end of this post.========================= As I sit and drink my morning beverage from the cup that say “Mom on the outside. Babe on […]
School’s (almost) out for summer! The last day on the school calendar is June 13, and bright and early the next morning, we get started on our three-generation road trip. Tall Paul, the kids, Mom-in-law, and I are piling into the Wagon Queen Family Truckster (Grandma’s SUV) and making our way to Yellowstone National Park, and stopping by the Grand Canyon on our way home. We have been planning this trip for literally a year. […]
If you’ve been reading here for awhile, you already know that I have entered my part-time parenting years. My own child, Chris, is grown, a year out of university, and living on his own on the opposite coast, and my stepchildren, Tall Girl (13) and The Boy (8), are with their dad and me twice a week and every other weekend. You might think this makes the job easier. What it does make easier is […]
This post, one of my occasional forays into the political, is prompted by a Mothers’ Day blogswarm in protest of maternal deaths – a protest in protest of an anti-abortion protest (got all that?) held in Knoxville, TN on May 10. The Knoxville event was planned as a “funeral procession to mourn aborted fetuses.” In response, the ArchCrone and ShortWoman launched their own blog initiative to mourn and honor mothers who have lost their own […]
Before things get underway, I just wanted to mention that it’s Blog Reader Appreciation Day. Thanks so much for reading and participating here, whether it’s every day or just every now and then. I am truly glad you found this place and hope you visit often!———————————————————————-Laurie Ruettimann called attention to a recent Wall Street Journal/CareerJournal.com article that reported on a study finding that women with advanced degrees were more likely to get divorced then men […]
Be warned…perhaps my recent birthday has made me a bit cranky as well as old(er), because there are a couple of opinionated days on the calendar here at The 3 R’s this week. OK, it’s been awhile since I went off on one of my over-involved parents/over-entitled kids rants. (I’ll bet you haven’t missed them much, either…they were starting to wear on me a bit, too.) This post on The Juggle kicked me back into […]
The week after Easter is spring break around here, and I’m spending it on my own. Back during the first week of the school year, my stepdaughter Tall Girl brought home information about a trip to New York City that her drama teacher was organizing over spring break. The group would spend four days in the city, sightseeing, shopping, and seeing two Broadway shows, Wicked (which she’s seen once already, but in Los Angeles) and […]
There’s a new parenting blog on the scene – and it’s for those of us who are a little bit further along on the road of parenthood, with kids who have long since left the potty-training years behind (no pun intended) and are closer to the driving-lessons stage, or even past that. It’s about time, I say. For true-life stories and discussion of the trials and tribulations of being the parent of older children – […]
