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21 Years
This weekend Sarah and I went to the city for our anniversary. We ate at an amazing pizza place and went to the Aire bathhouse. I think that’s a fun new tradition that we started doing that’s super relaxing – staying at our favorite Hyatt Regency hotel on the river, having a great dinner, then…
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20 Years
Sarah and I spent a night in Chicago for our 20 year anniversary. The hotel was a dump, but the steak restaurant (RPM Steak) was great and in the morning we took our paddleboards on the river downtown and then walked to see the airshow. I am so lucky to have such an amazing wife.…
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July 4 Traditions
When sitting at the fireworks on Thursday night I realized, with a bit of emotion, that July 4 in Petoskey may be our family’s most consistent traditions. I remember early in our marriage when Sarah said she wanted to always come to Petoskey for the 4th of July fireworks. We’ve mostly done that, coming over…
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Celebrations
The last few weeks have been full of fun celebrations for our kids. – Jackson’s Robotics team qualified for state…then qualified for worlds; – Parker is winning his track races and bringing home medals for Science Olympiad and had a fun choir concert; – Elly’s volleyball team is winning their brackets at volleyball tournaments. It…
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Watching them ski
Yesterday we took the kids to Nub’s Nob to go skiing…but Sarah and I didn’t ski. Not once. The kids were all by themselves. I joked with the family that this was the official scoring of our success as parents, that our kids knew how to ski and didn’t need our help to do it…
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Family Council
Today I really enjoyed our family council. We started with a simple lesson on gratitude, and that was supposed to lead us to have a conversation about donations and serving others and Christmas… At one point I somehow asked the kids if they thought I should get a drum set for Christmas (the kids all…