We took a little trip to the mountains with Grandma over the weekend. We went to Stanserhorn and the weather was perfect. It’s exciting to ride on the train with Claire: First we took an open air funicular: Then a big gondola the rest of the way up the mountain: We had a yummy lunch:…

I almost forgot about these photos from when we were in Midland. We took a nice walk through Dow Gardens with Grandma C. 

Today my girls started back to school. It is a big change for Bea this year. She is going to 6th grade at the middle school and so she commutes all by herself. She walks from our house to the train station, takes the train and then a bus and then it’s another short walk…

Now we are back home and we brought grandma with us. The girls start school next week so we are trying to fill these last few days of summer vacation with fun stuff. Claire was lucky to have a friend from Wilmette visit and we are enjoying showing grandma our Swiss home. Today we visited…

This is what jet lag looks like – Claire fell asleep while she was sitting on the couch with a pen in her toes. And these are jets. They put on a show while we were eating dinner on our patio.

But look at all the fun stuff we did with Grandma C. Picking blueberries. Some people picked more than other people. Hmmm. Trampolining. Welcoming Brian back after we hadn’t seen him for about three weeks. Celebrating Brian’s birthday. Doing a ropes climbing and zip line course. Watching hot air balloons. Bowling (Bea won!) Eating waffles…

I read this funny article by Brook J. Sadler called My Ultimate Facebook Post and it hit the nail on the head. I sometimes feel this blog is pointless. As the author points out who cares if my 95 year old grandma has a great garden, who cares if I saw a caterpillar, who cares…

We went down to the Pine River to think of Dad. We made paper boats and decorated them and wrote messages and then sent them down the river. It was the right spot for Dad and it was a beautiful night to remember him.

We’re back in Midland enjoying the company of Grandma J. and Tucker. We’ve been trying to entertain ourselves by going to the river, getting out Dad’s microscopes, watching the Tour de France and doing lots of snuggling with Tucker. Oh Tucker!

Jennifer was supposed to sail in the Chicago to Mackinac race for the first time this weekend. Unfortunately the boat’s mast broke in a race the week before so she couldn’t sail. So instead we took the train down to the Chicago and watched the boats leave the harbor. It was a miserable day and…