I wrote the majority of this blog post in 2020, as we were preparing to send our girls to school. As I reread and edit it today, I am shocked to be feeling the same things again. I ignorantly thought we’d be heading into a “normal” school year this year. With Covid surging again locally, we will be starting another school year with masks, social distancing and quarantining at the forefront of our minds. Last year, I read a quick post on Instagram from Tiffany with We Five Kings about all the emotions she has felt throughout quarantine, or the “coronacoaster” as she called it. The post listed every single…
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Our Girls Trip to Cabo San Lucas
Every year my mother-in-law, sisters-in-law and I go on a mother-daughter trip. This is something that Matt’s mom and sister started when his sister was in college. My mother-in-law’s intention was always to include the women that her two sons married as well. Matt and I got married 6 weeks after his brother got married, so his wife and I joined the mother daughter trips at the same time, 7 years ago. It’s such an amazing time for all of us to connect as women, wives and now as mothers. For the first 6 trips one of us (or two of us) were pregnant or nursing. Their have been 5…
