Jetta

175,030 miles and 14+ years of memories! Bought it new (10 miles) for $22,942 Aug 16, 2010. Sold for $500 Sept 19, 2024.

Both kids learned how to drive on this Jetta, we drove to sleep in a tree house for Finn’s 10th birthday, celebrated Betty White, moved into college, watched movies at the drive-in, took Lennon to the dog park, taillight busted by a home run bounce at Ivanhoe, and of course hundreds of commutes to internships, Lake Zurich MSS, Abbott Park, Conway Park and Des Plaines. PLUS countless safe passages under the covered bridge!  Ha!

Day 1
Dog Park Fun 🐕
Naptime 😴
Drive In 🍿
Teaching Michael to Drive
Teaching Finn to Drive
Car Wash
Betty White’s 💯
Off to Running Camp
Christmas Card Photo 2022
Fits safe under the covered bridge! 🌉
Michael’s Grad 👨‍🎓 Present $500
⚾️
Michael driving us 🙂
Finn driving us 🙂
Moving out of CP1
Move into DP1
CSD employee – sold!
Day 5148

My Wishes for You

Be Kind. Be Brave. Be Curious.

The point of this human experience, I believe, is to be a detective of the magic in your own soul. So honor there and try something new every day, push yourself, challenge yourself, grow, learn, connect, love, make mistakes…

I hope you are always a deep and wild thinker, and continue to seek the truth for yourself.

Are full of an infinite abundance of inner peace.

Find and build connections. Seek synchronicity.

Where your attention goes, energy flows.

Go where you are valued, not needed.

Enjoy a daily dose of novelty.

Don’t miss the world being available to you

Live in a state of Awe and Perpetual Wonder

Underreact to stress, everything you need is already inside you!

Comprehend that there is not much you can do about the length of your life, focus on the width, live deep and wide!

if you don’t want to slip, don’t go where it’s slippery.

Love, Dreams, Emotions are proof we are more than just our bodies.

the family you create is more important than the family you come from

Insight alone into the problem isn’t sufficient as a solution.

Rules for Life:consistently good is better than intermittently excellent

If you need a laugh watch Panda 🐼 videos on why they aren’t extinct 🤣

If you want to cry happy tears watch Military surprise reunions ❤️‍🩹

Focus on important things; not urgent ‼️

if our dreams get broken along the way, we have to make new ones from the pieces – Erin Quinn

Every word they said whispers through the air forever. Every molecule which for a while made up your sister (mom, friend), carries on in the air, or fits into a plant or bird. Every touch on your skin lives on in the neurons of your brain. Most of the atoms which make us up were born in a star. That light exists in us all. ⭐️Your love crosses dimensions and never ends. ❤️ death ends a life, not a relationship 💔💐

Summer! ☀️ chapter three

Boat Day! ☀️ 🌊
🦞 🧈
🚤
Sabryn and Michael made the cake!
Bounce!! 🐈‍⬛
13 hrs in the office, back to back days … sigh
perfect sleep with the windows 🪟 open weather
Singo 🎤 🎶 … they’re not nice $110
Last Day of Camp 🚌
Grateful for Blue Sky, Remote Day
and a proper lunch break ☀️
Chill Friday Night 📚
Friday night 🪟 windows open
Saturday AM coffee on the deck
– the perfect weekend
I turned loneliness into the perfect day 8/10 – I rested, read, hiked, sat by the lake and spent the entire day outside – it was perfect weather!! ☀️
Graduation 🧑‍🎓 Party 🎉
Vacation Day
Doc Appt, Shopping Spree, Lunch, Washed my Car
First Day of Senior Year
And 20 Sandy Hook Students
should be starting Senior Year
People in Gaza struggling for food during war
4-day old twins and their mom killed by Israelis – I will pray for the father 💔
Lovely dinner outside before the rain ☔️
Duck Donuts 🦆 🍩 🦷
Sunset on the way home 🏠 ☀️
Let’s do everything we can to get her elected!
Yummmmy 🍦
🏈 Draft
Fun Saturday (and Taylor B at 🍊 OTF)
Jordan Klepper!!
So much fun! So many laughs!
Fun adventure to the City
Boat Day! Hot and Refreshing ☀️ 🌊
Crazy Clouds on the way home
Storm Clouds right before sunset
Running out of Starbucks $, last PSL 8/28
Volleyball Season Ends 🏐 🦙
Broken Dish Washer
Working from home 🕯️
at home spa day 🧖
Quiet – ✍️ Ideas
Dish washer is fixed AND I finished work before sunset and went for a walk ❤️
Paralympics Opening Ceremonies
The band is back together again ❤️
Cross country season begins
Salt Cave Afternoon ❤️
Irish Days – ☀️ ☘️ 🇮🇪
Finally went to the sock monkey museum
Nap 😴 with 🪟 open
and pool party background noise
Girls Night 🍷
Summer is over – crock pot season begins!

Quiet is my favorite sound 

Quiet is my favorite sound

The world is too noisy 

Maybe my childhood dream of becoming a dolphin 🐬 came true? 

Not because I can click, but because my body can hear obstacles all day long.

I shall carry on, orienting myself in a loving direction. 🥰

Clearwater Marine Hospital
Adventure – This Way 🐬

Amazing Story Exploratory Workshop as usual!!

Best Saturday all Month ✍️

Summer! ☀️ chapter two

Greg’s Custard 🍦
Bounce 🐈‍⬛
Friday lunch date
Friday afternoon drinks 🍻
Got to see my friends 🐬
Sunset concert at the zoo
BNL 🎶 banjo, 🪕 accordion 🪗 bass 🎸
Ride or Die 💕
Farmer’s Market, Library, 📚 Kayaking
Reading at the Beer Garden post-kayaking
Cannoli Shake! I love our little town 🥤
Napping in a Hammock
Anniversary Dinner 💕
New Coffee Drive Thru 7/18
Thursday Evening, Love Music, Taco Truck
🎶 🎤 🌮 🍻
Candy from India – tastes like plain M&Ms
Love our little town 💕
🏐 🦙 Wednesdays
a good morning rainbow 🌈 a treat for having to drive to the office on a Friday
trying to relax after a very long stressful week 💻
sound bath 🧘‍♀️
Sunset SUP (3rd times the charm) 6/14/,6/28,7/19
Matt’s birthday 🥳 🎂
Ride or Die!
💕 sleeping 😴 with the windows 🪟 open
Story Exploratory Live!
Part 2 in the basement once neighbors started mowing
Quiet reading on the deck 📚
finished the whole book!
Interesting and Creative Ideas
make my commute much more palatable
Saturday night alone
watching Netflix and eating Raman
🍪 all on his own 🍪
🤯
Breaking out my old Sweatshirt 🇺🇸
Bingo Break
Ride or Die bingo 🎰
Mike and Joe 🎶

Let’s name snow plows 🙂 yes!!
Sean and Finn won the Lake Forest bags tourney
Bike Races in Mundelein
Twisters 🌪️ at the Drive In
Bummer!!!
Audiobooks on my long commute
Flickr Pics are up!
Work remote finally!
Home & computer off by 5:30pm!
Olympic Fire Pit 🔥
Snoop! “I was out there kissing 😘 babies, doin’ what I do” carrying the Olympic torch
Summer Fire Pit – 🎄 🎁
Beach Yoga 🧘‍♀️ 🏖️
Farmer’s Market
Iced Coffee on the Deck ☀️
Backyard Swimming 🏊
Angela Birthday Brunch 🥳 🎂
Olympic Tattoos
Olympic Reminder:
Athletes come in all shapes and sizes
Olympics Highlights
Steve!! 💕
Ryan Birthday 🥳
Flowers from a friend 💐
Bar Crawl 🍻
Met this lady on the El who lives in Maui and shared stories of crime on the road to Hana, 600-stitch shark 🦈 bites, billionaire granddaughter friends who aren’t grounded, floating on a surfboard at night to avoid fires 🔥 maybe the grass isn’t greener ….
Friday afternoon drinks in Wrigleyville
⚾️ 💙
Cubs Win! Go Cubs Go 🎶 💙⚾️

if I were a teacher and had summers off ….

I would fill it with Sunshine & Love ❤️

Yoga, Walk, Run, Hike 🧘‍♀️

Meditation, Nap 😴

Writing, Reading 📚

Candles, Campfires 🔥

Sunrises & Sunsets ☀️

Kayak, SUP, Beach 🏖️

Splurging at the Spa 🧖‍♀️

Photos, Art, Podcasts 🎶

Visits to Coffee Shops & Libraries 🏬

Awe, Novelty, Wonder, Curiosity 🧠

Joy, Ease, Calm ☮️

Since I do not get summers off and I can’t retire soon… I shall just bring more of this into my life …. 💕 ☀️

I will notice, not numb 😮‍💨 🧘

sup

on the shore the world forces me to sink or swim 🏖️

out here I can just float 🦢

I feel the sky’s embrace 🤗

the waves heal my soul 🌊

the sun’s reflection nourishes me ☀️

I am a body of water, just like this gorgeous lake 💦

I go back to land in a amazing bubble of calm so quiet, I can again hear the heartbeats of those I love ❤️

📷:Stand Up & Flow
📷 Stand Up & Flow

Summer! ☀️ chapter one

Graduation
Graduation Party
Park on Park
Hot Tub
Hammock Vacation Days
Michael’s Marathon
Fun in Manitowoc
Michael’s Marathon
Singo
🥎 State Playoffs
My Fav 🦞
Outdoor Iced Coffee
Bakery Crawl
Bakery Crawl
Bakery Crawl
Heather 50
Brock’s 3 🎂
Swimming
Cousins
Brothers
Brothers
Outdoor reading 📖 ☀️
Riding in the Jeep
Independence Grove Beer Garden
Sunsets
Live Music outside 🎶
Too windy for sunset SUP
Friday. Night Plan B – outdoor reading 💕📚
Laying in bed and Ryan calls asking me to drive him from bar bar to another to look for his sunglasses and epipen 🙄🙄🙄 6/14
Date Night
Zac Brown & Kenny Chesney at Soldier Field
🎶
Izic Miller in Nationals 🏃
☀️ Disc Golf ⛳️
Libertyville Days 🎡
Father’s Day
Backyard Rainbow 🌈
Free Coffee, Ice Water and a view of the Lake 💕
after train drinks 🍺 🚊
perfect Friday night with friends! Dinner, Music, Drinks, Great conversation!
Farmers Market 6/22
Treats for Holly
Moving Day! 6/22
Tuesday Night bags
Friday Night Home Alone – Story Exploratory
Diamond Lake Day! ☀️🌊
A Sunday with Perfect weather ☀️
Coffee date with Finn (which he wanted to take to go…) #jeep
Dave at Alpine 🎶
Last minute concert 🎶
Dave’s cover of Fool in the Rain was legit!!
Volleyball, Family,
Beautiful Sunset snd Fireworks
Freedom Classic 5k – Finn was the lead bike 🐇 instead of running this year …. park district employee got suckered into volunteering 😉
4th of July
4th of July
4th of July
4th of July
Mom friends are good for your heart 💜
Mundelein Days 💕
Fireworks
Whiskey Myers Date Night
Rosemont Theatre 7/5
Ready for a 13 hr day!
2nd place in the bags tourney
3 cheryls #Tradition
Recreating an 8-year old photo 🤣🤣🤣
Mike and Joe 🎶
Political – just a little
Rainy Parade