32 weeks pregnant: if it ain’t broke, break it

June 7, 2013

Really, Universe? A broken foot? Really? The Sunday evening began innocuously enough. The final Lion King curtain in Nashville came down, and I found myself in a melancholy state, dreading having to part ways with Mike the next day as Max and I would fly to Pennsylvania to spend the rest of my pregnancy with […]

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The Insta-Home Challenge: Nashville

May 18, 2013

We’ve arrived in Music City, perhaps a few moments too soon. We had to say goodbye to sweet Appleton, Wisconsin where we lived along the Fox River in luxe accommodations with some of our best friends.  Max left a warm, wonderful daycare called Stepping Stones, where he worked on art projects, grew attached to his […]

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A very Disney and Scar-y 40th birthday

May 9, 2013

I love my job.  (I’m writing this bleary-eyed on a red-eye from LAX to Chicago, with a 4-hour layover before a half hour flight to Appleton, Wisconsin. I’m on a birthday high. Forgive me if I sound scattered and gushy!) I am grateful for every day that I can say that I am a member […]

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I’m almost 40, and turning over a new (salad) leaf

April 15, 2013

There are roughly 2 weeks until I reach four decades of living on this earth. It’s jolting! With a growing family to take care of and provide for, I’ve had to focus on feeling better and staying younger longer. I will be forty, and it’s important for me to be healthier. So I am doing […]

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The Insta-Home Challenge: Appleton, WI

April 11, 2013

Strap on your cheese bibs, my friends — we are in chilly Wisconsin for four weeks! More specifically, The Lion King is slated to perform at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton, Wisconsin.  Apple-who, you ask?  And where are we living? A little hamlet city called Menasha, which is about 7.5 square miles […]

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20 weeks pregnant: Into the 4th dimension

March 21, 2013

So, little baby lady was featured in a motion picture already — a 4D Ultrasound (or 4D Live Motion Imaging), more precisely! Here’s where you shake you head and mutter, “Technology, technology, technology…” This stuff will blow your mind. 4D is a continuous 3D scanning of the baby, so you see it move in real […]

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The Insta-Home Challenge: Omaha, NE

March 18, 2013

We’ve bid adieu to the crippling, freezing temps of Detroit, and rolled into the equally bracing Omaha, Nebraska. But despite the cold, the Old Market neighborhood that we’re staying in is charming and hospitable, encouraging us to brave the elements and get out to explore. Icicles begin to melt along an Old Market awning. You […]

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18 weeks pregnant: Pickles and Parking in Detroit

March 3, 2013

After several days of hibernation and ennui in our luxe Detroit condo due to freezing temperatures, wind and snowfall, I finally worked up enough interest in the outside world for an afternoon out — to run some errands in Allen Park’s expansive shopping center. I started with a Beach Club Hero at Jimmy John’s, then […]

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13 weeks pregnant at the Exxoplis

March 1, 2013

Architects of Air: Exxopolis Luminarium in Austin, TXMy 13-week fetus and I sauntered through the Architects of Air: Exxopolis Luminarium exhibit at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas. The exhibit from the outside, on a gorgeous Austin morning, appeared as an elaborate child’s jumpy complex. A dragon, or a space-age caterpillar, […]

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The Insta-Home Challenge: Detroit

February 19, 2013

The awesome-weather gravy train had to end sometime. Last stop, the 313! Our neighborhood of Brush Park in Detroit. Photo by Nick Cordileone. Our first year of the Lion King tour took us to many warm cities, from east to west. Last winter, Mike started solo in frigid Minneapolis, but as a family we then […]

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