Captain's Log: Day 7 Over the past couple of years, the kids and I have been doing a lot more air travel. Partly because of the Eldest Child starting college, and partly because the Big D means that many of the holidays where I have the kids, we are traveling to either Colorado or Oregon to be with family. We are pretty savvy Southwest Airlines travelers, which means that we are great with packing carry on luggage and stuffing them to the muffin to make sure we have everyth

Captain's Log: Day 6 Life has been INSANE this past month. To the point where I've actually only been home for six (yes, six) days since the start of the month of April. But it's been super great. I have started a few entries as I could, so I will absolutely finish those babies up here in the next couple days because what kind of blog writer would I be if I actually am not writing blog entries?! So for now, let's recap the past couple of weeks. The Middle and Youngest Chil

Captain's Log: Day 5 Today I went to the dentist. Ok, not really. But nothing extraordinary happened today, and while I have a ton of things to write about in my head, the mental flow that I had happening this morning on my walk totally died by the time I actually had a moment to write about any of those things. So, we will relive my adventures with the dentist from approximately four weeks ago. I have had the same dentist for years. He was a one man shop, with a super n

Captain's Log: Day (Night...) 4 If you've ever had kids or been around kids a lot you know that there is this definite moment during the day where the wagon wheels fall off and everything erupts into chaos. The Witching Hour. And it is usually right around dinner time. Right around the time where you're trying to whip something healthy and magical for dinner, is when the meltdowns and tantrums were inevitable. For a cat (or in my situation, four...) The Witching Hour occu

Captain's Log: Day 3 Skee-lo coming in clutch with the 90's lyrics that live rent free in my brain... Ok, first of all, I have decided that I'm not going to write every day. That is just too high of a standard to hold myself to. It was super easy to write daily when we were living our best lives in the comfort of our own homes and the people and animals inside them and the most exciting thing may be what Pepper the Savage brought home today (Nothing. Absolutely nothing lat

Captain's Log: Day 2 Today was a little bit of a rough day. Not for any one reason, but because I think all the pressure of trying to hold everything together just finally caught up to me, similarly to the gasket in the 2009 Pilot that the Middle Child was driving the other night that decided it had driven its last mile (RIP you lovely vehicle, thank you for the memories and keeping us all safe...). I feel like it would be super easy for me to drive this blog into a sea of

Day 1: Holy shitballs, I just started a blog. Actually, I didn't. This baby was born on the first day of lockdown during the wild and crazy time we now look back at as Covid-19, 2020. When I originally started writing The Captain's Log, it was my way of finding sanity in the wild experience of quarantine. I just imagined some random captain, going on an adventure at sea writing about his (well, really her, but the captain I imagined was on some ancient ship back in the day

Isn't AI wild? I literally just told it what I was interested in writing a blog about and it came up with different sections and wrote everything for me! It even pulled in pictures! How lovely! How profound! For now, I will leave it all here so you can take a minute to read through what it has to say while I figure out what will actually go in this section. But not going to lie, I sort of like how it set up these different sections for me. Maybe as this thing takes form

Oh look, another AI section! But I actually like this too! Maybe I have a section for when I do things out of the norm, like travel! I am a Sagittarius after all! Traveling is our thing! Again, just going to leave the wisdom of AI on this page for the time being until I figure out exactly what a "Life Adventure" entails.... Embarking on a journey through life can often feel like navigating uncharted waters. Each day presents new challenges and opportunities, much like a