Life & Other Things
Our life is full of so much. Combining our lives, families, work aspirations, and life on two continents it all comes down to balance and compromise.
Life and Such: February 2023
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans,” seems more and more appropriate for life each year. 2022…
Accountability: July 2022
Hello, hello! July 2022 has seen the end of my cruise ship contract and my return home to the great…
Accountability: January 2022
Hello, hello! It has been what has felt like forever since I wrote an accountability post on here. It’s been…
Accountability: August 2021
Goodbye what felt like the busiest month ever. We were getting our house ready to sell, moving, family wedding, birthdays…
Accountability: July 2021
Hello and goodbye to July 2021. I don’t know how time flies by so quickly. It seems to be true…
Accountability/ Where Are We Going?: April 2021
Happy May 3rd! Obviously didn’t post this in April – and that’s okay. Why? Because I am solidly on the…
Accountability/ Where Are We Going?: March 2021
Happy March being over! There has been a lot of reminiscing about what life was like a year ago lately….
Where Are We Going/ Accountability: February 2021
Oh February, you pesky little month with only 28 days. Oh Pandemic, you pesky little century of my life that…
Challenges of An International Marriage in a Pandemic
Over the years I have thought about the movie, The Day After Tomorrow* on a somewhat regular basis. This is…
Accountability / Where Are We Going?: January 2021
Goodbye January! How’s everyone doing? January tends to be a bit of a dreary month during a good year –…
Ticket to Ride: Geography and Life Lessons
If you’ve followed along much to what’s happening in the UK and in Scotland, you know that we are all…
Accountability/Where Are We Going?: December 2020
This year is coming to a close. This year has been a bit of a dud. It’s been a lot…
Where Are We Going/Accountability: November 2020
Happy end of November. Happy quarantine(ish) life. Happy that the sun was shining today! I have spent the month of…
Thankful Things
Yesterday was American Thanksgiving. Many of my readers from around the world might not realize what a big deal Thanksgiving…
Pivot, Pivot, Pivot
Throughout this year I have been a little bit all over the place with my career aspirations. In typical 2020…
Accountability/Where Are We Going: October 2020
Happy almost Halloween. The extent of our Halloween festivities has been watching Halloween-ish movies. We watched The ‘Burb’s (ad) last…
Just Keep Going
I am currently wrapping up another travel related quarantine and today has had the most dismal (and oh so stereotypically…
Accountability/Where Are We Going: September 2020
Somehow another month has come and gone and it is time for this post. While I technically got a whole…
Quarantine #3
The year 2020 has been a dud for nearly everyone I think. For me it’s been a lot of time…
Accountability/ Where Are We Going?: August 2020
This is the month that time forgot. Accountability, what? Seriously. After a few late nights of writing posts that felt…
Traveling During a Pandemic: Round 2
Let me put this out there: I appreciate that my need to travel during a pandemic is part of why…
Where Are We Going?: July 2020
Are you ready for it? We have news! Stuart got off the ship on Monday and is home in Scotland…
Accountability: July 2020
Somehow we’ve ended up at the end of July and more than half the summer’s gone by. In Vermont I’ve spent…
One Month Down, ? To Go
In years past we’ve gone a month, or maybe two months apart, and this year we had decided that we…
The Questions Post: July 2020
I’ve been home on land for just over three weeks now. Life in VT is kind of like it normally…
Travel Restrictions. The realities, the myths, and the extra challenges of an international marriage during COVID.
Do you have trouble sleeping at night? Do you need some light reading to help keep your mind from wandering?…
Part III: Acclimating to Land Life
I went to get a gallon of milk and realized as I went to pay I didn’t know if I…
Accountability: June 2020
June was an interesting month. I started the month onboard the ship with no even indication that would change. I…
Motivation: 3 Months In
Tomorrow is the lovely three-month anniversary of the last time that we were on land. If you’d rather count days,…
Accountability: May 2020
I have a friend that writes a personal finance blog and as such her monthly accountability posts are about how…
Accountability: April 2020
I am 31 years old and I am currently onboard the cruise ship that my husband works on. There are…
Accountability: March 2020
I am a 31 year-old, largely unemployed weird version of a stay at home wife. I am currently sailing with…
Where Are We Going?: Living on a Cruise Ship in the times of COVID
I had a blog post planned for today about living on a cruise ship. I talked about how I didn’t…
Accountability: February 2020
Oh, February you cheeky little bugger. (My Scottish is coming out). A couple of nights ago onboard we went 23…
Just Another Monday
Today I flew home to Vermont to see my family. The 45 minute car ride to the airport, followed by…
How This Little Blog is Helping Me Find Balance
I got married last year. If you’ve looked around this blog at all you’ve probably figured that out. I’ve also…