Tag: kids

  • A Memorial Journey Through Germany with Kids 10 & 9

    The trip to Germany was supposed to happen earlier. Originally spring 2022, to visit my mom, who was living there with my sister. We postponed when my sister tested COVID-positive days before departure, then postponed again when our younger son tested positive the morning we were supposed to leave. Then in May, my mom died…

  • DC with Kids 9 & 8

    Between Christmas and New Year’s 2021 we’d had enough of the Hudson Valley in winter and decided to take the boys — Henry 9, Elias 7 — down to DC for the first time. The pandemic was still rolling along in its second-year exhaustion phase, and four days of walking a city with two kids…