Highlights from Ps & Q

When we came back from camping in the mountains earlier this week, we returned with a deeper connection to nature and an appreciation of the world around us. In Henry's case, I think he also came back with something of an addiction to Band-Aids.Having grown up on a...

Wednesday was a pretty normal day, particularly after a few weeks of travel and other off-the-beaten-path kind of stuff. Erin and I were both pretty busy all day and the kids generally did a good job keeping themselves entertained.We've been trying to limit the TV...

So after being in pretty consistent lockdown since March, we did step out a little bit in the past few weeks. Regular readers know that we made kind of an impromptu road trip to see family in Wisconsin, and that happened to run pretty close to an overnight camping...

We woke up Monday morning having had a surprisingly decent night's sleep doing our first family overnight in a tent. The kids slept really well, and while we grown ups were maybe a bit stiff from sleeping on slim inflatable pads, we were none worse the wear.It was a...

A few months ago, we decided one way to combat the quarantine doldrums would be to take up camping. We live in Colorado, after all, and there are no shortage of places to go in these parts. It's a way to take in nature, and at least is a reasonably safe way to...

We had a great trip to Wisconsin last week. Yeah, I've had my moments of anxiety about stepping out a little in a pandemic (to be addressed in a later post), but all in all, the kids traveled well, we were able to stay reasonably safe, and we had a wonderful visit...

On Friday, along with work and the usual end of the week stuff, Erin and I had some serious adulting to do. Yup, it was time to grab our pens and masks, drive out to a meeting room to meet with some attorneys and sign our wills. Wooo! OK, that may sound a little grim....

I originally set out with a grander idea of writing about dealing with post-road-trip exhaustion, COVID anxiety, school opening concerns and a bunch of other heavy duty stuff, but the day got long, it's 8:30 at night and I'd really like to have a beer and watch a...

After two days on the road, on Wednesday we jumped full force, right back to it. After being off from work for almost a week, I came back to having a day with two conference calls and an online presentation to deliver. No rest for the weary.  I spent all day...

We had good intentions of getting up really early again and hitting the road on Tuesday. Having logged close to 10 hours the day before, we just had about 6 and change left and wanted to get back home to Colorado.Best intentions, yes, but we were also super exhausted,...