I promised them an adventure they would never forget. And, maybe for the first time, I delivered. We were in Saint George for the long President’s Day weekend. I had wanted to go see the Grand Canyon at Toroweap Overlook, and everything was lining up nicely: the weather, the schedule, the preparations, everything was good. …
Category Archives: Tragic
A good two months
A few months ago, we swapped out our Expedition for a 2009 Suburban. Manina searched KSL Classifieds and found a super-clean, extremely well taken care of Suburban. It was used solely as a road trip car by the original owner, had low, freeway-only miles on it, and could easily be mistaken for a new car. …
Driver license nightmare (part 3)
Note from Seth: if you haven’t read part 1 and part 2 of my driver license nightmare, you’ll want to start there. When I saw the outside of the envelope with a PennDOT return address I thought my nightmare was just about over. Finally, I could be cleared to get a driver license. Then I …
Driver license nightmare (part 2)
Note from Seth: This is a continuation of my earlier post. Make sure you’ve read part 1 of my driver license nightmare so you’ll understand just what I’ve been dealing with. The morning of the 17th I got a phone call from Lucille at PennDOT. You know how sometimes you can picture the person at …
Driver license nightmare
My driver license expired on my birthday a few weeks ago. Usually, this isn’t newsworthy, it just means having to spend a few hours at the DMV dealing with entirely competent and friendly government employees. Trying to minimize the hassle, I went online the night of my birthday to prepare all the documents and applications …
Getting left behind
Poor little Ellie, I feel bad for her. But, she’s brought this upon herself. You see, Ellie doesn’t travel well. She’s a horrible traveler, actually. And now, she will be left behind. The entire family is taking a much-needed vacation to Disneyland here in the near future. We’ve been planning this trip for more than …
Hacked
I’m not sure what the purpose was, but someone hacked our site. If you’ve been visiting recently and had a stupid malware page pop up saying you’ve got sixteen viruses, you’ve seen it. My apologies, and I hope you weren’t silly enough to fall for that old trick. I hope I have it fixed now, …
A simple leaky faucet
One of the problems with our home is that it’s ten years old now. Things are starting to require some maintenance. Now I’m no handyman but I’m no completely hopeless, so when Manina mentioned the tub faucet leak has been getting worse, I thought I’d take a crack at it. I pulled the hardware off …
“Uh, I forgot.” What?!!
So yesterday was one of those days I hope to never experience again. It began early in the morning. Too early. I didn’t get much sleep and to hear my alarm ring at 6:00 am, I thought I was gonna cry. After getting all the kids ready for school and then dropping them off at …
Concerned? Very. Convinced? Not yet.
Little Ellie has been suffering from a cough and congestion for over three weeks now. It doesn’t seem to be worsening but it has kept her up the last couple of nights so Seth and I decided it was time to take her to the pediatrician just to be sure she was okay. With six …
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