A - Z Blogging Challenge 2024 - Theme Reveal

Welcome to the 2024 A-Z Blogging Challenge Theme Reveal post!

I'm late to the game, and I am by all means not ready when it comes to pre-writing my posts, but as every year I'm determined!

What is this challenge all about?

We'll be posting every weekday throughout the month of April. There is going to be a blog post for each and every of the 26 letters of the alphabet - yes, even the hard ones - which makes this a daily job, except Sundays.

It's going to be my tenth time around. Wow, time is flying while you're having fun!

In 2015 I was talking about aspects of the life of a (part-time) working Mom, there wasn't even much hockey in the picture yet. There were, however, balancing acts, commutes, caffeine, guilty feelings and overwhelm, just to name a few.

In 2016 I was invited to a wedding at the West coast, and it came at pretty short-notice, so for a moment I worried about the challenge. The next second I decided this was genius, my theme was going to be on the go, and voilà, A is for Arrival in Los Angeles, P is for Pike Place Market and Z is for when I got back to Zurich.

In 2017 I had ambitious goals of losing 30 pounds and getting into shape, and I did! From Avocado Brownies till Zumba, I just about covered everything.

The following year, 2018, I took you on a journey, kind of a trip around the world, even. 26 cities or national parks I have visited and loved! I used S for Sydney, so I had to squeeze in San Francisco at O is for Oakland ;-)

In 2019 I was talking about all things justice system! 

Prosecution and defense, forensics and polygraph tests - I tried to cover it all.

In 2020 I was talking about Switzerland, my quadrilingual home country. I told you what an alpine ascent is, what cheese varieties go into a Swiss Fondue, and more importantly how the holes get into the Emmentaler. Also you got to learn about International Organizations (think UN, WHO, Red Cross) in Switzerland. I threw in some sightseeing and yodelling of course.

In 2021 I used sayings, idioms, proverbs and quotes and made them come to life. So we picked apples - the ones that didn't fall far from the Tree and swam with the Sharks and confirmed that Travel broadened our Minds.

In 2022 I took you guys on a coffee tour. We talked about roasting and preparing all kinds of Coffee Types, some of which may have been a little controversial, such as Kopi Luwak, aka cat poop coffee ;-)

As we were traveling quite a bit BC (before Colin), things didn't always go smoothly. 2023 was all about our mishaps while on the road. Running out of gas in the desert, redeeming frequent flyer miles going totally wrong, or showing up at the wrong airport at the right time...

So it's 2024! What are we going to do this year? 

Without As a Hockey Mom the end of the season is always special. On one hand it's a relief not to have to drive and do laundry so much. On the other hand, there's no more games and excitement. I call it the end of season blues. What always helps me to move on is spring. First blossoms are happening just about at the right time. I'm always looking forward to visiting my favorite places, and this year I am taking you with me.

So be on the lookout for my posts and leave me a comment with the link to yours so I can visit!