As cities and states around the county lock down, and other countries go into full-out quarantine mode, the Schwannema household has decided to get an early start on what might become a mandatory and necessary quarantine. Our daycare is still open, until DHS tells them they can’t be, but the …
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Turning 35 and Quitting My Job
Last month I turned 35…. And I quit my job.* Tomorrow is my last day at the company that I helped build with my parents and the only job I’ve known for my entire adult life.** And after? Well, my family is going on a three-week South American adventure in …
Our Family Tree: A Yearly Trip Through Time
This past weekend, we set up our Christmas tree. Yes, it’s a little early — we’re still days away from gorging ourselves for Thanksgiving, after all – but we bought our first full-size tree and I wanted some holiday cheer to distract me from the increasingly cold weather, so we …
Midwest Ruminations: A road trip, family vacation and four-state photo journal
Dakota Confusion My 7th grade geography teacher assigned yet ANOTHER diorama, and while I usually relished a fun, creative, easy project like that, I did not relish not getting to choose the state. I wanted to do New York (Broadway!) or Tennessee (Nashville!) or Florida (Disney!). I would have taken …
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Where Did I Go?
I’ve been quiet — too quite for my own liking! — since our New York trip in early May. I’ve been slacking on the blogging front and I don’t have a good excuse for it. Just… life. We didn’t go anywhere the rest of May or June, so our focus …
Saying Goodbye to Surrey
Today is bittersweet: we closed the sale of our first family home, the little yellow house on Surrey Road. The first house I ever bought. The house we brought Dexter into when he was just 7 weeks old. The house in which Justin proposed and where we slept on the …
Have Cats, Will Travel
Since August 1, 2016, our beautiful sweet furbabies Cosmo and Dexter have spent 50 nights at our home. The rest of the time they’ve been staying at Grandma and Grumpa’s house, sometimes with us but most of the time without. They get shuttled back and forth between our two houses …
