My sister flew into town last weekend to do some babysitting while That Husband and I flew to Dallas for a weekend hosted by Company X. She did a fabulous job taking care of T1 (as we knew she would) and as a bonus she took great pictures of whatever he was up to while [...]

I have a collection of photos from the past few months that I still haven’t shown you (you know, like that one time I went to Italy and Poland for three weeks?). I think it’s about time I introduced you to The Ranch. The Ranch is owned by my father’s parents, and I consider it [...]

This is all the adventure he needs right now, throwing rocks in the pond in the park located adjacent to our apartment building. You may have noticed we haven’t done a whole lot in Chicago, in terms of experiencing the nightlife or seeing the sights or eating the terrific food (we’ll get to that last one eventually, [...]

I wanted to write up a little summary of my culinary adventures in Boston, because I did one for New York and it’s been a great resource to forward on if people ask me what I liked about The Big Apple. I flew in to Boston on Thursday afternoon and dropped my stuff off at [...]

Every year my teeny tiny little town has a summer festival that we call Community Days. As a kid, I thought this thing was huge! I wanted to stay all day and had huge melt-downs whenever my parents said it was time to leave (a combination of heat stroke creeping up on me and sugar [...]