Travel With Me Tuesday: The Girl Does Amsterdam

A year ago, my granddaughter went around Europe while she was studying in Dublin. The girl has the travel but and she knows how to rock it. I hope she always is able to travel and see everything the world can offer.

TBT: This is My Family

Only a throwback to 2017 at the 2nd family reunion for our family. The first was back in the late 70s or early 80s. My little branch of the family has traveled the most but while we were in the US from the mid 80s, no one had the initiative to get together again.

But here we are in all our glory and now this time, I am one of the eldest. That allowed me a chair up front! Almost as good as a Senior Discount! my former husband who is the actual member of this family didn't make it. My one sister in law who also married into it attended but also with her 2nd husband. My husband stayed home! as did two of my three children. Another time perhaps.

And Then There Were These

I love getting so many pages done in January.  A Month of Challenges sounds daunting but it's only an hour or two each day. Lots of fun too!

I've surprised myself by doing and liking a lot of white space on my pages. Perhaps this is the balance to that Project Life kind of page. May - be!

This has always been one my favorite photos of myself. It was four months after the birth of my 2nd child, my 2nd son. My mother and I took one of the Tulip Tours to the Netherlands when she came to visit us in England and take my Nana, her mother, back home to the US. I loved this dress - one made for me by our local dressmaker and I had shoes to match that cardigan. You know how it feels to be put together again after being pregnant for so so long? That's how I felt! 

AAM Monday: Project Life 2017 The Finale

This has been done for a week or two but just not posted. Our holidays were fairly quiet with most all the family living elsewhere. That's ok. Adults need to have their own lives. My children were raised continents away from their grandparents so rushing to visit each other is not anyone's norm, especially at the holidays. Sometimes I wish it were different but it isn't. So being grateful for what is makes for a happy holiday time.

Wordless Wednesday January 10, 2018

Travel With Me Tuesday: Boston 2017

A slightly different take on the winter pages from Boston. The top one was for a challenge at  The Lilypad Month of Challenges and the bottom one was the end of Dec 16, once again at the Fairmont Hotel.

AAM Monday: 2017 Project Life Week 51

As most of my time has been spent working on the Week 50 Boston trip, I thought it would be good to finish up the other final weeks of 2017.  So far just week 51 as I've also started on The-Lilypad's Month of Challenges. Somehow it gets to be a busy time, no matter what I do!

Project Life Week 49

Wee 49 was really the start of the Christmas holidays for us. It was cold and crisp and the decorations were going up on most houses (except ours) and it was looking like I think of Christmas. I saw the Super moon rise at a friend's house by the Chesapeake Bay and enjoyed the spectacle.  House repairs seemed to be taking a lot more of our time. Dick was in FL with his bicycle so I enjoyed my time alone but he did not have a good time coming back. More on that later.

Travel With Me Tuesday: Oh York, I Love You So

Our day started with a pickup by our driver and then later a switch to a shuttle bus to take us into York. We passed the train station and started to walk walk walk.

The River Ouse flowed quietly along the trees and endless green.

I have a strange look on my face but at least there's a photo of me with the Minster showing its towers . I love this view.

This entrance into the city of York is full of views that go back hundreds of years. The wall, the towers, the gate keepers home...all images that hint of the Norse city, the Roman city and on and on.

Dick and our guide look at building after building while the Minster waits for our arrival.

So many buildings that I have seen many times in years past but on this day we had no time. York is worthy of so  much more time.

I catch up with our guide who appears to check the sky. More rain or not. You never can tell in England.

One last glimpse of another place that we won't visit on this day and then we go to the Minster, the centerpiece of our day in York. The place I visited Saturday after Saturday when I took my boys shopping in the market. A Saturday routine over 40 years ago. On this day, just a taste of what was.