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Auf Wiedersehen, Good-Bye {until New Zealand}

Today is the day!  I had a great week with my family and loved taking long walks on the property.  It was a lot of fun and a great way to say good-bye. Here are some photos that I took while on my parents’ property this week.  Anyone who says that the Midwest is flat [...]

Posted 15 May 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Photos § Pictures ‡ Comments (4) °

Bye, Bye, Bear

Well, Bear and our SUV are on their way to St. Simons Island, Georgia right now.  My mother-in-law flew in last night to take both of them home. I’ve touched on this before, but I may not have been very clear.  We aren’t shipping our cars to New Zealand, and we aren’t taking Bear.  In [...]

Posted 13 May 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Bear § dog ‡ Comments (15) °

My Sister, the Mini-Marathon Maven!

Big congrats to my sister Valerie, who recently ran her first mini-marathon.  She is awesome!  She did it in under 2 hours and she did it without any formalized training plan.  Can you believe that?  This girl is good!  I’d like to think that my Facebook “good luck” message helped, but who am I kidding?!  [...]

Posted 11 May 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Running ‡ Comments (0) °

On My Way to St. Thomas!

Hello, my lovely readers!  If this post-scheduling thing goes according to plan, then about the time that you read this, Chris and I will be on our way to lovely St. Thomas for the next 10 days.  Aaaaaah, sunshine, sand, and seawater! Photo Credit: Me, taken during our last vacation to St. Thomas! Once again, [...]

Posted 28 April 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Marriott § St. Thomas § Travel § Vacation § Vacations § traveling ‡ Comments (6) °

Boston: Shopping, Eating, Walking, and Friends

My sister-in-law and I are more alike than I thought: we both forgot our cameras when we went to Boston.  To make it even worse, Becca had told me that she forgot her camera and I was all, “Well, I’m going to be extra careful and make sure that I don’t forget my camera!”  And [...]

Posted 29 March 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Boston § Friends § Shopping § Travel ‡ Comments (3) °

Sad News

My grandmother-in-law has lung cancer.  Her doctors misdiagnosed her with TB and were giving her some pretty toxic medications for it, but my father-in-law (also a physician) didn’t agree with their diagnosis.  He had Gramma Rose come down from Beaufort, SC to their hometown in St. Simons Island, GA for further work-up.  Turns out that [...]

Posted 12 March 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § ‡ Comments (12) °

Vintage Photographs

Do you like old photographs?  I do.  I love seeing pictures from the past and learning a little something about what life was like back then. My family has a pretty strong sense of where we come from.  This is in part thanks to my Uncle Dave, who’s done quite a bit of studying on [...]

Posted 26 January 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Photos § Pictures § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ,

Three Completely Unrelated Items

First off, a huge “Welcome Back!” to my big little brother, E, who is newly arrived (yesterday morning) in the US after being in Iraq for nearly a year :-)  I’m grateful for his safe return.  We’re planning on seeing him and my SIL, A, next weekend (the 25th – 27th).  For those of you [...]

Posted 16 September 2009 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Air Force § Bear § Cute § Immigration § Iraq § NCNZ § New Zealand § Nursing in New Zealand § Photos § Pictures § USAF § Uncategorized § dog ‡ Comments (8) °

Happy 30th Birthday!

Happy 30th birthday to my big brother, D! Obviously, this picture was taken a few years ago! This is him and me when we were little and still liked to play together :-) He and his wife, B, live fairly close to us now that we’ve moved. I’m looking forward to seeing more of both [...]

Posted 19 August 2009 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Birthdays § Photos § Pictures ‡ Comments (14) °

Chicago + Corn + Flowers + Bikes = Fun!

Chicago was fun, the exam was boring, and I’m very glad to be back home. Really, though – Chicago was great. I love that city. It’s not as crazy as NYC or Boston or Atlanta, and just feels so much more approachable to me. I wouldn’t at all mind living there some day. The test [...]

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Posted 10 August 2009 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Chicago § Flowers § NCNZ § New Zealand § Nursing in New Zealand § Travel ‡ Comments (16) °