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Tuesday afternoon: We got the call from our school district that school would be closed both Wednesday and Thursday due to the extreme history-making low temperatures that were expected the next two days. With a wind chill of -50, not only were schools going to close, but my husband’s company told employees to work from…
When I write on my blog, I get to the end of a post and I see the list of similar posts I’ve written in the past. Lately, I’ve been clicking the links and reading stories that I wrote about seasons of our life I can barely remember. I’m amazed that during the last 11…
On Sunday afternoon, our 6-year-old and I were walking along the trail behind our house. She had her little arm wrapped tightly around my waist. I held her close with my left arm around her neck. “Mom, this is the best weekend ever,” she sighed. It wasn’t the fall festival we had attended the night…
If you live in the Chicago area, then you are probably like us and make at least one trip a year out to a state park that makes you feel like you are a million miles away from suburban life. Well, now that we moved, I realized we live almost on the same street as…
