November 2025 Newsletter

Hello everyone, Apologies—we're getting this one out a few days late. (We blame Odin... for no other reason than that he's conveniently the tiniest member of our family and can't really defend himself.) Anyway, we hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving and you're doing well heading into December.

October 2025 Newsletter

Hello all, We trust that everyone has survived the fall back portion of daylight savings time. And since you've got an extra hour on your hands today, here are some hot-off-the-press tales of our adventures for you ;) Putting the Ain't in Maintenance Our colorful assortment of neighbors moved out, moved

September 2025 Newsletter

Hey all, Welcome to autumn! And let's be honest: It's about damn time :) No hollowness here though—we ended summer not with a whimper, but a bang. Don't believe us? Read it for yourselves... Two Score and Five Years Ago We became pumpkin-farmers, paid for meat in a single shot

August 2025 Newsletter

Hello everyone, Hope all is well! Let's just jump right into things this time. Ready? Go! Playing with Fire Our annoying neighbors annoyed us. Riley went to the beach. Hannah did TastyKake math. Kevin kind of went to the beach. Some kid wore a Zelda shirt. Kevin and Kelly may

July 2025 Newsletter

Hey everybody! We hope you're all doing well and that your July was less weird than ours was. On the one hand, it seems like we barely did anything the past four weeks; and on the other, it feels like we've been stuck in July for the better part of

June 2025 Newsletter

Hi all, Summer's officially here, June's officially over, and it is officially too damn hot outside! We had a decently eventful month though. Here's what we got up to... Some Long Overdue Hangouts We reconnected with Kevin's friend Joe and his parents. Kevin's cousins Liam and Ellie turned 97 (they

May 2025 Newsletter

Hey everyone! Hope your May was as awesome as ours was! We didn't necessarily do a ton of stuff; but we did of course celebrate Mother's Day and our anniversary amidst a bunch of smaller things... and just about everything else that happened this month was positive as well :) Here's

April 2025 Newsletter

Hi all, April has come and gone; and hopefully, like we do, you feel like you're better for it. It feels like we hardly did anything at all yet still managed to be busy most of the month. Make sense? No, not to us either. But here's what we got

March 2025 Newsletter

Hello everyone—and happy spring :) March was pretty kind to us, all in all; so, without further ado, here are the tales of our exploits... Words with Family We got fake food poisoning from some suspicious toy food, celebrated Catherine's birthday, played some Scrabble, got hacked, ate cake, and paid

February 2025 Newsletter

Hi everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful February like we did :) While ours wasn't exactly crazy and packed with action, it certainly was not without its monumental moments—like celebrating Kevin's 40th and reconnecting with his father's side of the family! (And then there was plenty of the

January 2025 Newsletter

Hello all, We hope everybody is doing well. We're doing pretty great here: Riley celebrated her 15th birthday at the beginning of the month, and Kevin is just a few hours away from the big 4-0! Here's the scoop for this past month... Worst Quinceañera Ever! Riley had an early

December 2024 Newsletter

Hey all, Whoa—we haven't emailed you since LAST YEAR, hyuck-hyuck-hyuck! Christmas has come and gone; 2024 is history; and we had some great moments and made some great memories this past month. Hopefully you all did as well :) Here's what we got up to... The 21 Days of Not-Christmas

November 2024 Newsletter

Hello all! Our action-packed November has come to a close, and it's time to share our stories. We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and as great a month as we did :) Here's the scoop... Get Thee to Gettysburg We kicked off the month with a road trip out

October 2024 Newsletter

Hey everyone! Look at us, getting the monthly newsletter out in a timely fashion for once :) Here's what we got up to throughout October... Neighborly Sorts We did our rounds as the neighborhood farmers; our neighbor formerly known as "Hardhat" saved the day; and Kevin took a few lives to

September 2024 Newsletter

Hi all! Did September fly by for everyone else, or only for us? At any rate, these were our deeds, our misdeeds, and our exploits last month... We Come Bearing Gifts... Gifts all around! Our downstairs neighbors got tomatoes, Riley got school supplies, Kevin got a bunch of computers, L'il

August 2024 Newsletter

Hello everyone! We hope everyone had a wonderful August :) We didn't get into anything super crazy, so much as a bunch of weird and crazy things seemed to happen around us this past month. Here's the scoop... An Update on My Mom Athennia found out her mom isn't doing so

July 2024 Newsletter

Hey all, Hope everyone is doing awesome! This one's going out a bit late; but here's what we got up to in July... Don't Even Sink about It! We celebrated the Fourth of July, upgraded our vacuum cleaner, delivered unexpected twins, praised the five-nines reliability of our electric company, and

June 2024 Newsletter

Hi everyone, It's been a crazy past few weeks: Taylor graduated and moved up to Connecticut, where she's managing a Dollar Store; Athennia's been working 45-hour weeks; Kevin has been neck-deep in code as of late; and Riley just spent half a week at her friend Kassie's. So, that left.

May 2024 Newsletter

Hello everyone, May was a crazy, hectic month from hell that we're all happy to see go. Lots of stress. Lots of headaches. But as always, some bright points as well—and we can breathe easy knowing that the girls have mere hours left of the school year at this

April 2024 Newsletter

Hi all, April was something of a hectic month for us—which is the main reason the newsletter is so late. The other reason is that, while Kevin ended up doing all the writing this month, he wanted Athennia to sign off on some of the more sensitive details before

March 2024 Newsletter

Hi everyone, Here's the scoop on our mostly low-key but certainly varied March adventures :) Adventures Off Duck Island For the want of fast food, our lives became a Shakespeare play. Taylor and Kevin did some algebra together. And Lucky needed a good fart, so we took him over to Jersey

February 2024 Newsletter

Hey all, February has come and gone, along with all the usual festivities... We checked to see if we saw our shadows, we exchanged valentines, we said "whoopedy-doo" on President's Day, and we took a leap on Leap Day. It later occurred to us that we did forget to thank

January 2024 Newsletter

Hi everyone, We hope 2024 is being kind to everyone so far! No real movement on the house or the property fronts, but things have been pretty great for us so far otherwise :) Here's the scoop: The Year of the Molerat We got a bit of snow for Riley's birthday.

December 2023 Newsletter

Hello and happy new year! We hope this newsletter finds everyone doing well in the initial days of 2024. December certainly turned out to be an eventful month for us: We can't recall the last time we had seven blog posts in a single month (or if that's even happened

November 2023 Newsletter

Hi everyone! Anyone who watched Frasier back in the day may recall the episode when Daphne is teaching Niles to dance, and Niles laments, "This is boring, yet difficult." That's applicable to a good portion of our November as well. It was an... interesting month—albeit in the sense that

October 2023 Newsletter

Hey all, Pretty busy month for us in October—and it feels like the first time in quite a while that that's happened! Things were still very iffy on the house and property front at the beginning of the month; but, we made some great headway and it seems like

September 2023 Newsletter

Hi everyone! September's officially ancient history—and, to be honest, we're totally okay with that since we spent the second half of the month battling colds. But, there's nothing quite like being under the weather for a couple weeks to remind us to appreciate having our health otherwise... and we

August 2023 Newsletter

Hey all, Another month has come to an end—and it was kind of a slow one, at least for us. (All this property-hunting and house-planning sure does eat up the majority of our free time.) We still had a few tiny adventures and some good times spent with family

July 2023 Newsletter

Hi everyone, Hopefully everyone had a wonderful July! And here's the scoop on ours... A Roy of Sunshine We celebrated Kevin's Uncle Roy's 75th birthday and harvested our garlic after patiently waiting since back in October. [Read the whole story] Froth of July We swam in the rain and celebrated

June 2023 Newsletter

Greetings all, We hope everyone's doing awesomely :) June was both tediously busy and relatively low-key for us—but peppered, of course, with bits of excitement here and there nonetheless. (How else would we have a monthly newsletter to send out?) Kevin took care of all the blogging duties this month

May 2023 Newsletter

Hey everyone, We hope you're all doing well! May was a pretty spectacular month for us, as you've probably heard by now: Athennia and Kevin got married on the 18th! :) And, of course, we had a few other adventures here and there as well... A Matinee and a Hit-and-Runt Riley

April 2023 Newsletter

Hola, (That's Spanish for hello. Riley taught it to us.) It's hard to believe April's already over! We hit a few minor snags here and there—and April definitely takes the cake for "month with the most snakes and gangsters in it" so far!—but, all in all, it was

March 2023 Newsletter

Hey everyone! We're not going to lie: March was a pretty bumpy ride with a few more ups and downs than we would've preferred. But, we made the best of it and have emerged happy, healthy, and as full of life as ever! We're taking a gamble and sending this

February 2023 Newsletter

Greetings all! Another month has flown by... and, as usual, we filled a fair amount of it with eating more pizza and ice cream than we should have :) But we also did a few other things as well... .38 Special We celebrated Kevin's 38th birthday with his family, and our

January 2023 Newsletter

Hey everyone! Hopefully your 2023 is going well so far. We had a pretty decent January ourselves—even if it feels in hindsight like we spent half of it shopping at Michaels :D The highlights of the month were Riley celebrating her 13th birthday, Taylor making her first ever appearance

December 2022 Newsletter

Hey everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that your 2023 is off to an amazing start. We did a ton this past month... and we've managed to cover it all in just four posts instead of 40 ;) So, here goes: It's Beginning to Look a Lot

November 2022 Newsletter

Hi all! We're a day late on getting this one out, because it's been a busy last two weeks... We did a lot this month: two Thanksgiving dinners, a birthday party, a handful of local outings, and perhaps a few too many visits to Qdoba. But, the highlight of our

October 2022 Newsletter

Hi everyone! Welcome to the October 2022 installment of The Kartography Newsletter... It seems like October flew by; but, we did a bunch of fun things together, made a lot of headway on laying the groundwork to join our respective households, and had some unexpected good fortune come our way!

September 2022 Newsletter

Hi all! We hope this inaugural installment of The Kartography Newsletter finds everyone doing well :) September was an action-packed month! We're happy to report that we're all doing great: Kevin and Athennia are slowly but surely working on merging their households; Taylor and Riley are doing excellent in school; and