This is a post to let people know that I’m not writing a post today. I’m tapping out, tagging a buddy, and essentially waiting for a be-Spandexed wrestler to climb through the ropes and take her place at my laptop. Let me explain. I found myself fantasizing about taking a “mental health day,” a term that friends with out-of-the-house jobs bandy around (and subsequently make me froth at the mouth with envy/improperly rinsed toothpaste). But when I realized that I {Read More}
A Round-Up In Pictures. (And Love.)
May 28, 2014 By 4 Comments
Pals, today I’m gonna skip the usual round-up of writin’s (except to say that Chicago peeps should really check out this MSI giveaway- ending tonight!) and give you the round-up of pix which thoroughly define this week. So. Pix Which Thoroughly Define This Week: Someone is enjoying his food. And is preeeeeetty proud of himself. (FYI, this picture sorta encapsulates every dinnertime…and room where food could possibly be served…and at least nine outfits.) On Saturday, I celebrated six years of {Read More}
Incredibly Quick Giveaway For Chicago’s Museum Of Science & Industry!
May 27, 2014 By 4 Comments
One of my absolute favorite things about blogging is getting to take advantage of- and share!- super cool, local happenings which I otherwise might not have been privy to. Today’s little bit o’ awesome is actually a rather quick giveaway for a fantastic Museum of Science & Industry Event- and it includes a family 4-pack of tickets to not only the presentation, but also admission to the museum for the day! The MSI’s new exhibit is National Geographic Presents: Earth {Read More}
The Girls’ Bedroom Is Done! (For Now!)
May 22, 2014 By 8 Comments
The girls’ bedroom has had many incarnations. Before its (thankfully) clean, bright, pretty, and deathly material-free current self, it was a nursery with oddly placed acoustic ceiling tiles. (Nowhere else on the third floor had these bedroom ceiling tiles.) And prior to that, it was a cross between a blank slate and a crack den in a fixer-upper home. And we were either blinded by our own idealism or constrained by the available properties in our price range- it’s so {Read More}
A Roundup: Eye Candy Theatre, Great Reads, & Sunscreen That Won’t Burn Your Eyes.
May 21, 2014 By 6 Comments
Happy Wednesday! The girls’ room is mostly done upstairs (photos tomorrow)! And the post-baptism laundry is mostly done downstairs (no photos tomorrow)! Stuff I Wrote Which May Contain Bodily Function References: Don’t be jealous, but my new driver’s license photo could be a textbook manual on how to take the perfect driver’s license photo. I reviewed The White Snake at The Goodman Theatre for Chicago Parent- and promptly guffawed and bawled my way outta my seat. (Super pretty.) Netflix in May {Read More}
Five Months Old. Now With Added Holiness!
May 19, 2014 By 10 Comments
My favorite little boy, Happy five months, slugger. Five months is huge. And you are huge- in size, in moxy, and in smiles for days. Here’s what we know (and appreciate/fear/respect) about you: You have impeccable timing. This is very good. This is also very, very bad. Like the other day before your baptism, when I knew you had yet to poop (for close to 48 hours) yet I chose to dress you in your adorable yet rather thin seersucker suit and {Read More}
Spring Into A Starring Role (Kinda) With Netflix And The Stream Team.
May 16, 2014 By 4 Comments
As a member of Netflix’s Stream Team, I’m thrilled to bring freshly curated content straight to your grateful eyeballs each month. May means music! Read (and sing) on, yeah? *** Deep dark secret time: I used to wish that my life were a musical. Like, when I was younger. (Like, last week.) Netflix is feelin’ me this month with its list of fling-your-arms-wide and sing-it-to-the-rafters featured titles, just in time for that season of spring musicals (not to mention spring {Read More}
The Best Driver’s License Photo Ever. (Again.)
May 15, 2014 By 14 Comments
I had been all prepared to mourn. After all, the photo on my driver’s license was pretty darned special. It had been taken in June of 2008, less than a week after my return from our honeymoon in Virgin Gorda. I was tanned, in crazy-good shape, stupidly in love, and gainfully employed with families I adored. We lived in an apartment that couldn’t have been any cuter if it tried, we saw our friends with alarming regularity, and P.J. and I {Read More}
