Guess blog post written by my husband. JMF This is how the conversation went at the table next to me: Man: “In Spanish, it wouldn’t be appropriate for you to say, ‘Yo soy Americano,’ because it doesn’t apply to just the United States. It is better to say, ‘Yo soy Estado Unidense.’” Woman: “In America, [...]
2018 Italy Planning: November Edition
At this point I am down to things I REALLY need to do vs. things that can wait until like the week before. Here is my list of things that are giving me anxiety that they're not done yet: Book rental car from Rome FCO airport (Will's job) Book Copenhagen airport hotel (after writing this 2 [...]
Hi. Sorry I’ve been slacking
This is a blog post to explain why I'm behind on my blog posts. This is what my life has been recently: Spent this past weekend in Cape Cod for a family wedding Monday night church dinner & lecture from 6:15-9:00pm AND trying to get the house back in order Tuesday run club with the [...]
Weekend Getaway: Cape Cod
We are heading out tomorrow to Cape Cod for my husband's cousin's wedding and I'm really, really looking forward to some legit fall. In Central Florida, it has been like 70s and breezy this week (which is SUPER exciting for us but not really fall-like). It'll be a busy family filled weekend, my favorite! 🙂 [...]
Your Guide to Catholic Holidays on Death
So Halloween is coming up as I'm sure every little kid in America is fully aware, but there are many people who hesitate to celebrate this holiday believing it to be a Satanic Devil-worshiping day (which in fact Satantists don't actually worship the Devil but that's a whole 'nother blog post!) or they feel it [...]
Hospital de la Caridad, Sevilla
This blog post could also be subtitled: when the travel books let you down royally. Or a second option: the only church I have ever been pissed to have paid to go inside. So some back story before my rant on why the Hospital de la Caridad isn't worth the 8 euro price. History The hospital/church [...]
Making Infographics in Humanities
Two weeks ago I took a professional development day to attend an all-day workshop at Full Sail University, a college focusing on digital media and film production. The workshop I attended focused on bringing in digital media projects into the classroom. Now most of the workshop was wayyyy over my head (I can't even use [...]
2018 Italy Planning: October Edition
So it honestly doesn't feel like I have done much this month so far but I think I have our itinerary more or less down and now just need to do some more research with final tweaks and prices. We arrive in Rome on December 27th at 11:35 am. That gives us time to pick [...]
