happy 2024!

I am grateful for our family's health and for amazing sunsets and sunrises in our new home. I'm thrilled that Seba and Lulu are both crushing it in middle school, that Lulu has gained confidence and skill on the stage, and that Seba is a leader on the pitch and that he still loves the game. I'm also really proud of Lulu for earning her Girl Scout Bronze Award this year.

I'm also grateful that we had the time and money to really enjoy 2023. Some highlights...

Travel: Australia, New Zealand, New York, Connecticut, Vegas, LA

Bucket list:
✅Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
✅The Shire in Hobbiton, Matamata, New Zealand
✅Spellbound glowworms, Waitomo Caves, New Zealand
✅Seeing my first Broadway shows with Lulu
✅Watching the Women's World Cup live, especially Rapinoe, Morgan, Lavelle on the pitch together for the last time

Concerts: Duran Duran, Nile Rodgers and Chic, Bastille, Barenaked Ladies, Del Amitri, Semisonic, and Michael Franti and Spearhead, with Leo and the kids; Brandi Carlile and Pink with Lulu; Sting, Coldplay, New Order, B52s, OMD, Psychedelic Furs, Tears for Fears, Soft Cell, the Violent Femmes, Devo, Katy Perry, Wilco, the Cardigans, the English Beat with Dana, Music, Cass, Nolan, and Leigh. 

Shows (with Lulu in the audience or on stage): Matilda, Wicked, YAT Gala, & Juliet, Moulin Rouge, SIX, Come Fall in Love, Mean Girls, Waitress, The Sound of Music, Bring it On, Nunsense, Popstars, Grace for President, The Addams Family, Camp Rock, Tuck Everlasting, Grease, Newsies, Edgar Allan Poe’s Gruesome Gallery of Grotesquerie, Chronicles of Kalki.