You may not know this about me but, when I was twenty-one, I broke my back in a car accident. I had a can-do attitude and when they told me I would have trouble walking my go-to was "Watch Me!" and I pushed through it and got back to walking!

I had a great doc who left out the hardware...

I'm writing this on Sunday which in our house means pancake day:-)

This tradition started with me and my daughter, Emma, but I have continued it well into the Emma is away at college phase and now even into the phase called Emma loves California and isn't coming home anytime soon...

^{Today I was full of it. I woke up after a great night's sleep, popped up, and buzzed around a bit before I promptly went out to walk the dogs. To walk the dogs means I am dressed which today was no big deal but sometimes seems to take forever AND the act of getting dressed, picking...}

It is full-tilt summer and I went on my first vacation/ biz trip since March 2020! I went out of town!! I was gone for an entire week!!! It was in Vail, Colorado in the mountains!!! 

I DID NOT WANT TO GO

"What? Of course you want to go..." said my husband, my team at work, and my daughter...