A week ago today! Last Friday, Frank and I stepped out on to the deck late at night to see…the Aurora Borealis! In Seattle!

Fast forward to tonight and this dog walking delight:)

Win! We’re all together and nobody cooked. Coming from a family who likes to cook…after a long week, it was a treat to go to the WAC and be together and just, be together!

It’s all that it’s cracked up to be:)

The great Mother’s Day Car Clean for me!

Family bookending family! The best!

On this day…thank you, iPhone!

This may be more of a reflection on me than Meryl:)

Go Cheeto Macaroni Dragons! (The, of course, team titled mascot.)

In Meryl’s second grade class, each student gets a full birthday week of show-and-tell…Monday, we’re ready. (Summer birthday kids get assigned a random week during the school year.)

Welp, turns out having previously raised a puppy doesn’t cure you from making rookie mistakes, again.

We took Humbao to the vet last weekend as he hadn’t been eating all his food and then his eye got goopy green boogers in it. Turns out, he somehow scratched his eye and…he was having difficulty eating hard kibble given that his puppy teeth are falling out. Woops! (We also forgot to up his food volume and were already feeling bad about stunting his growth.) And then yesterday he somehow got a bout of diarrhea. Thankfully, we remembered how to treat that, but we’re still recovering from the cleanup:) Survive and advance!