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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…
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…
I can’t believe we are almost in the last month of summer. Other than that small detail of moving, we have had the most low-key, slow paced summer I can remember. We didn’t create a big list of places to go and things to do. We aren’t going on vacation in the first time since…
I’ve been camping in southern Michigan a few times, but I’ve never ventured to northern Michigan in my life. This would be a completely new adventure. As we drove along the eastern edge of Lake Michigan, we found ourselves driving along a highway with dense forest on each side. The highway weaved in and out…
To write about our vacation in Michigan, I first have to write about the end of camp. For the past two days, we’ve had only one child at home. It took both Jayda and I a full day to get used to this feeling. It was one of the few times in her life that…
Every summer, the 4th of July seems to be the signal that summer is halfway gone. I guess it all depends on your school schedule and perspective. But if summer begins at Memorial Day and school starts 12 weeks later, this is, in fact, the halfway point. We always start the summer with a long…
On Saturday morning, we headed down to visit my husband’s family in southern Illinois. His aunt and uncle live on the family farm in a rural area about 30 miles from the town where we both grew up. We were joined by an uncle from California, Kent’s parents and his brother’s family, who live near…
Of all the big adventures we take around this area, it’s kind of funny that we rarely go into the city. I love the idea of showing the kids all of the sights and sounds of the city. But then the reality of what it would look like to drag four children downtown for a…
Last week, we went to St. Louis to visit our good friends who moved to Baton Rouge in April. They were staying with family in the St. Louis area, so it was a great way for us to spend a few days together without driving all the way to Louisiana. We couldn’t visit St. Louis…
Since our good friends moved to Baton Rouge in April, we have been trying to figure out how we could get together when they returned to St. Louis to visit their family. We compared schedules and found a few days that would work for both of us! The really fun part about our visit was…
