Recombobulated

Hello World!  Good bye, LA!  This is my first blog.  And, tomorrow is the day we leave Los Angeles and start our trek across the US to our new home in Madison, Wisconsin. There are a few things that I’ll

We are moving this week!  Our movers load up our truck on Friday and we will be driving across the country beginning on Saturday.  We have been getting quite a lot of advice on how to travel across the country

Holy Crap!  Our new house is on a septic tank.  And, I guess there are all kinds of rules for what you can and can not put down the sinks and toilets, including what brands and kinds of toilet paper

My mom, Carrie– hereafter referred to as “Mom” or”Mother” in my posts– asked me to start helping her write on the family blog.  Most parents asking for help would encourage their kids and explain the purpose behind the project they

The boys are excited about our move.  They’ve all been talking with me about what we might do with our ten acres.  Here is a conversation Nathan and I had today by text. It started innocently.  I was just wondering

I’ve always wanted a pumpkin patch – a field of pumpkins, not the Girl Scout Badge. I think that pumpkins are relatively easy to grow.  But, I feel like I should know what to do with a pumpkin, other than

We bought a zoo!  Okay, we didn’t buy a zoo… We bought a house on a lake in Wisconsin.  But, it feels kind of like that movie, “We Bought a Zoo!” I was born and raised in Los Angeles, as