s/v Field Trip

This photo sums up my kids' personalities perfectly!   Easter 2020 Blame it on Corona virus or lockdown or parental lack of planning ahead, but the Easter Bunny took this year off.  I’m not sure if he is laid up in one of the thousands of hospital beds using one of the precious ventilators on his cute, twitchy bunny nose, or perhaps he is about to go bonkers inside his burrow in lockdown with his precious little Easter Bunnies-in-training.  Heck, maybe he saw the chance for a vacation from all the egg-hiding, and is binge-watching Tiger King with the rest of you lucky unlimited data streamers.  Whatever the reason, there were no baskets full of plastic grass or chocolate bunnies or (my favorite) Reese’s Pieces Eggs aboard Field Trip this year.  Does this even count as Easter?  Do I still get to maintain my ‘Mom’ title, or have I forfeited those privileges with my blatent child neglect? In the morning, when I realized this would be the first year wit...

...A look back at the family times together before all the quarantine and isolation (you know, when we chose all that together time?)... It is Christmas number eight since moving aboard way back in 2011, and we find ourselves enjoying a bit more of an American holiday than in years past.  After realizing we’d need to come all the way to Guam from Phuket, Thailand for our Volvo engine replacement (it had to be done in a US territory to qualify for the manufacturer’s recall), it was so good to finally arrive.  We traveled over 4,000 miles through 6 countries/territories, one tropical storm, pirate-infested seas, and some of the bumpiest waters we've ever encountered.  It’s time to celebrate. None of the ornaments or decorations could be put up until our passages were over.  Who wants to clean up a toppled Christmas tree while seasick??  Not me!  So in the first few days we arrive, decking the ‘hulls’ is at the top of our crew duties list.  Matt...