365: I snapped this and cried

Lyndsay Stradtner2020-01-29T22:06:06-06:00January 29th, 2020|365 Projects, 366 - 2020, Jonah, Jude, My Family, Zachary|

Jude is almost 12 and we are in this window of time where things are changing. He’s not a little boy who plays as much as he used to. He still does, he joins in with the little boys sometimes, he plays imaginary games, like pretending with Z to kayak off a waterfall (see my Insta stories for that photo). But it is not all the time like it once was. It used to be Jude and Jonah playing all the time! He asked for books for his birthday. Not a single “toy”. No legos or anything. The shift is happening and it makes me […]

365: Kayaking on Lake Georgetown

Lyndsay Stradtner2020-01-27T21:41:17-06:00January 27th, 2020|366 - 2020, 365 Projects, Jude, My Family, RV Life|

Today was such a gorgeous day, it feels like spring here in Texas, not the dead of winter. Blue skies, 74 degrees and a cool breeze. Perfect! The kids and I spent the entire day outside. We only came in to eat so Jason could have a lot of quiet time for meetings, work and an interview. Once he was done for the day we threw dinner in the instant pot and hit the lake with the kayak my mom bought the kids last summer. She bought it right before Jonah broke his arm for the first time. Being in a cast we avoided most water outings. […]

365: Memory

Lyndsay Stradtner2020-01-25T14:14:00-06:00January 25th, 2020|365 Projects, 366 - 2020, Jude, My Family, Zachary|

Zachary got a Marvel Memory Game for Christmas and he is obsessed with it. It helps that Jude asks him to play it (of his own free will – ha!) several times a day. Z is so good at it! I think Jude has only beat him one time in the last month! And yet there was still a little drama when he flipped over the wrong card this morning haha!