08/29/2026
I swear I blinked and summer was gone. The kids are back in school, we’re reorganizing our schedules, and we’re finally settling back into our school-year routines.
And I am a routine girl through and through. 😂 Routines give me the freedom to let my creativity run wild. When I don’t have to spend so much time thinking about the normal, everyday stuff, I can spend that energy fine-tuning things, dreaming up something new, or just doing something fun.
So that’s exactly what I’m doing.
This summer went by way too fast, so we aren’t quite ready to let it go. We’re going to try to drag it out until at least Halloween! 🎃
We had so much fun with baseball this summer and saw a LOT of Wisconsin—from Rhinelander to Muskego, Waupaca to Manitowoc, and just about everything in between. ⚾️
Now we’re planning to skip town for a few days and explore. The kids really want to go to Marquette, so I think we’re going to head up there for a weekend. And another thing on my bucket list is taking them to Louisville. MacKenzie and I went there this summer and absolutely loved it. We didn’t get much of a chance to explore because we were working, but when we go as a family, we’re going to make a trip of it—Fair Oaks Farms, the Louisville Slugger Museum, and hopefully a few national parks along the way.
I used to get so anxious about trying to get EVERYTHING done during the summer. And for the last three years, when we simply couldn’t, I felt like I had failed the kids somehow.
Then I started asking myself… what if we just did it differently?
It’s really hard for me to take time off during the summer. Our team takes a lot of vacations during those months, and we’re simply busier. So instead of forcing it, we started taking our family vacation in early spring.
And now, we’re sneaking in a few fall weekend trips, too.
Because time away is important.
And having a great team around you makes that time away possible—and, even better, allows you to actually relax while you’re gone.
For that, I am incredibly grateful.
So here’s to squeezing every last bit out of summer, making some new memories, exploring a little, and enjoying this time together as a family. ❤️
Maybe summer doesn’t have to end just because the kids went back to school.