Tom, Lindsey, and I headed to St. Louis last weekend to see Grant and to attend Family Weekend at Saint Louis University where he goes to school. Friday also happened to be my birthday, and we headed out to dinner at Scape in the Central West End. Tom and Lindsey chose the restaurant and they…
Travel & KC
Mary Carol Garrity’s New Lake House
Last September I posted my photos of Mary Carol Garrity’s historic home in Atchison, Kansas (see part one here and part two here). Mary Carol is the owner of Nell Hills and I took the photos during her Fall Open House. Shortly after that I began to hear noises that last year’s Christmas Open House would be…
KU Football Game Day and Giveaway
Since I know that some Creating This Life readers are in the Kansas City area, I’m popping in quickly to let you know that this week there’s a fun KU football ticket package giveaway on my family finance blog, The Family CEO. The prize is a family four pack of tickets to a home football game…
Postcards from Kansas City
Two weekends ago, Tom and I took a staycation here in Kansas City to celebrate our anniversary. I took my camera along like I would on a regular vacation, and since I love showing off KC any chance I get, I wanted to share some of the pics here. We stayed at the historic Hotel…
Doorways of San Francisco
I love visiting beautiful cities and – to me – there’s no city more beautiful that San Francisco. The hills, the bay, the bridge…it’s stunning. Our family visited San Francisco two years ago this summer. It was the first time for the kids, and I was so excited to share one of my favorite places…
Saint Louis University’s Cupples House
Last weekend Tom and I took Grant on a college visit to Saint Louis University. A very pleasant surprise was the visit the school planned for the parents to the Samuel Cupples House, which sits in the middle of campus. I’d walked by the house a number of times before on previous visits, but had…
Estate Sale Finds: Procrastination Edition
It’s already a month into the new year and my to-do list is as long as my arm: do our taxes, shampoo the carpets, clean out my office, and on it goes… So of course I’ve been estate sale shopping instead. And rather than just bring my little finds home and get down to work, I’ve…
Savannah in Pictures
My most vivid memory of our trip to Savannah, GA a few years back was a different kind of trip. More of a fall, really. I was making my way from River Street – where I had been shopping – back to our hotel. I was alone (Tom was golfing) and the stretch of street…
Secondhand Finds: Florida Edition
I said I had learned my lesson about buying heavy things while traveling. But the week after Christmas we visited my parents in Florida and my mom took me to an antique mall near where they live. When I spotted this lamp I knew I couldn’t leave it behind. I fell hard for the colors and the…
Christmas in Rome
Yesterday I shared with you some of the sites we saw while visiting Germany at Christmastime. As if that wasn’t special enough, we decided to take a side trip to Rome over the actual Christmas holiday. What a festive time to be there! This is a picture of the group (minus my sister) taken at…
