the world of weed

(this picture was taken yesterday morning on our architectural boat tour on the Chicago River) Seven years ago today I became a wife. June ...

In a strange turn of events, I ended up childless today. Here's what happened: My mom came down yesterday to babysit while I taught my...

While we were on vacation my daughter saw an episode of Max and Ruby where Max was listening to his favorite radio show called "Super B...

Well, after two years of searching here, there, and everywhere for other moms who stay home with their kids (all of my friends with kids wor...

EDITED--See the end So I've got this "summer job" of sorts. I'm going to teach a scrapbook class to kids at a day camp. My...

It was a loooooooooooooooooooooooong trip home, but we made it--Friday around 4:00 we finally pulled into our driveway. It's good to be ...

Today was our last full day here. We leave tomorrow morning and will drive a little over halfway and stay again in Virginia (a little furthe...

Mostly pictures today....I have a huge headache and don't feel like writing. It was a fun day...just frustrating to deal with a headache...

The day started at 5:15 when little miss sunshine woke up talking up in her loft bedroom (she slept soundly up until then, though, so I'...

I said there wouldn't be pictures...I was wrong! My husband brought a USB cord so we can download them afterall. This morning we drove o...

So we're in the middle of Virginia in a Holiday Inn that, as we just discovered, minutes before nigh night time for our little one, does...

We're busy doing last minute things for our trip. But I wanted to post before we left. We're leaving at the crack of dawn on Saturda...

In the last 24 hours we've been hit by thunderstorm after thunderstorm. Ordinarily this wouldn't be a big deal. But remember the bas...

(edited to add pictures at the bottom) The bad news is that as soon as I wrote the last entry, she had a horrible night. The night before la...

Three is the number of nights in a row she has SLEPT ALL NIGHT!!!!! It feels just like when she was four months old and I was ecstatic to ge...

...making sleep updates, that is. I'm really sick of it! I'm ready to be done with this phase. But....she did sleep all night last...

I'm feeling better and I guess our little one is better, too. She's rarely bothered too much by a cold, so it's hard to tell. ...

Now I'm sick. Yuck. Just a cold, but still....yuck. It's a gorgeous day today and I don't even feel like being out in it because...

So she does have an ear infection (no, that's not the good news....). The doctor's appointment was an exercise in strength--she holl...