jonah and his sticks

Jonah and his sticks. A few days ago I came across a photo in my archives of Jonah carrying a stick around before his 2nd birthday on a cabin camping vacation we took. It made me smile because then I didn’t know how much sticks would become a part of his life and childhood. When we were launching in to fulltime travel and purging our home, we started getting rid of things. One of the last things to go was basket of toys up on top of our fridge known at “toy jail”. It just so happened most of the toys up there could be used as a weapon (nerf, light sabers, […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2023-08-01T08:50:12-05:00August 1st, 2023|365 Project - 2023, 365 Projects, Jonah, My Family|

WCA Cubing Nationals day 4

WCA Cubing Nationals day 4. Zachary and I stayed home and watched the live stream. I was in pain and Z was fried from 3 long 12 hour days. He’d normally sit with friends and speed stack some cups or work on learning to cube but his broken arm put a damper on both. Plus he needed to stay home and snack today 😂 Jude had 3×3 second round and then after that it was all hanging out with friends until finals and awards tonight. Congrats to

Lyndsay Stradtner2023-07-31T13:32:08-05:00July 31st, 2023|365 Project - 2023, 365 Projects, My Family, Zachary|

WCA Cubing Nationals 2023 day 3

WCA Cubing Nationals 2023 day 3! It was finally Jonah’s turn to compete! He qualified for 4 events but only signed up for 2 as we missed the cutoff date. He did so well and hit his main goal of solving his 3×3 in sun 19 seconds! He was pretty excited! And it was a new PR (personal record). He even solved on the big stage in front of a huge crowd that had gathered to see Max Park. Jonah has nerves of steel, […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2023-07-31T13:23:46-05:00July 31st, 2023|365 Project - 2023, 365 Projects, Jonah, My Family|

Day 2 WCA Cubing Nationals 2023

Day 2 WCA Cubing Nationals 2023 looked like this for me. I way overdid it yesterday while still deep in recovery from my injury. I am so frustrated with my body, slow healing, lost stamina, constant pain. I want to be there every second and my body just won’t let me. My goal is to be there every other day for a balance of rest and recovery. So today I texted, watched videos, played the livestream and refreshed stats about 8000 times. Jude had an incredible day! He set a new PR (personal record) for clock average and made it in to the finals where he came in 14th!!! It was […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2023-07-28T21:50:29-05:00July 28th, 2023|365 Project - 2023, 365 Projects, Jude, Lyndsay, My Family, RV Life|

WCA Cubing Nationals 2023 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

We are all so excited it’s finally here: WCA Cubing Nationals 2023 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania! We have been waiting a year for this day and our travel decisions/route over the last 7 months have been dictated by us getting the boys to this national competition. A very full 4 days, 1200 competitors, seeing friends they’ve made from competitions all over the country, 11 events combined for the boys, LET’S GO!

Lyndsay Stradtner2023-07-28T10:30:58-05:00July 28th, 2023|365 Project - 2023, 365 Projects, Jonah, Jude, My Family|

Cubing Nationals!

Our daily view. This kid has worked so hard at speed cubing and he qualified for the national competition in Pittsburgh that starts tomorrow. Not only did he qualify, he was notified a few weeks ago that he’s a featured competitor and will be front and center on the live stream for his main event!! We are so proud of him! So many decisions we made this year where to make sure Jude and Jonah made it to nationals. We rearranged, juggled, lived in the least convenient time zone for 6 months, added travel days to get them to more competitions, more events for […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2023-07-26T13:10:20-05:00July 26th, 2023|365 Project - 2023, 365 Projects, Jude, My Family|