Captain's Log: Day 15 Figs are one of my most favorite summer fruits, which is super weird because I don't ever recall having them as a kid, except for the dried ones that we would sometimes have around Christmas, and it's not something that you ever hear people talking about. Like, really, when was the last time that you heard someone say “Oh, my favorite fruit is a fig!” Probably never. And honestly, if someone asked me, I would say peaches, or cherries or watermelon, bu

Captain's Log: Day 14 Last week, the Eldest went back to school. We had a fabulous summer with her this year, and it is so much fun to see her becoming her own person, with her own friends and adventures. This summer, she not only worked as a nanny and tutor for a couple of families, but she also got some experience working at an occupational therapy center for kids. She found time to go on a few getaways to various places in California with her high school friends, who we

Captain's Log: Day 13 I will always remember the day when the Hubs showed me a picture of some little border collie puppies that he found on Craigslist and said that he thought we should pack up the kids and go take a look at them. At the time, the Eldest was 6, the Middle was 4 and the Youngest was 2 years old and we strapped them into their car seats and took them over the hill to the neighboring town full of orchards and farms. When we got to the farm where the puppies wer

Captain's Log: Day 12 (oops, I wrote this weeks ago and forgot to "officially" post it...) I have always loved the library. When I was a kid, I vaguely remember my mom taking us to Columbine High School (yes, THAT Columbine) and being able to check out books from the school library during the summer. Apparently, they had a kid section, which is wild for a high school. Then, when we moved to the Springs, I remember when they built the East Library, and there was this amaz

Captain’s Log: Day 11 This past weekend, my SIL posted a picture on The Gram of her and the family in Tahoe - which is only a few hours away from where we are. So of course the first thing I did after seeing this was to get on the phone with my brother to berate him for not thinking to call us so we could meet him up there. In his defense, he didn’t realize that we were actually that close, so we will let him continue to live… In typical little bro fashion, he was like, jus

Captain’s Log: Day 10 When I was in college I was blessed to have the opportunity to spend the summer abroad in Rome, Italy. It was an amazing experience. Since I was a student at St. Mary’s, we were able to stay at the Christian Brother’s “Mother House” (or BroMoHo as we called it…) in the heart of Rome. We had little dormitory style rooms and had access to classrooms where we would spend the morning learning Italian or having other studies. One of the brothers was ou

Captain's Log: Day 9 PJ, the dumb as rocks kitty has learned a new skill. A new skill that is insanely annoying. If you will recall, Pepper the Savage is the only kitty in this household who is allowed to venture into the wild. This is because he was found in a warehouse and had some natural instincts, and also the ex-hubs was not pleased with my bringing Pepper and Whiskey home, so to compromise we allowed them to be outside. Unfortunately for Whiskey, this was a terrible ch

Captain's Log: Day 8 About nine months ago, I was complaining to my therapist about how freaking tired I had been lately, which makes sense because going through a divorce is emotionally exhausting business - which is what I chalked my tiredness up to. She, the lovely angel that she is, agreed with me, but also recommended that maybe asking my doctor for some bloodwork was a good idea, just to make sure all was well in my peri-menopausal body. Low and behold, I was super-dupe

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