Enjoying the giddy excitement when Daddy comes home from work. Brian usually gets down on the floor to play with her before he even takes his shoes off. She often wants him to chase her – she makes a coy come get me face. Last night she was especially excited because Brian had been away…

Last weekend was the Chicago Blues Festival. Many years ago before moving to Chicago, I always wanted to plan a trip to Chicago for the Blues Festival. A couple of years back we made it down here with Dave and Kim and kids and I realized it wasn’t the gritty, gravelly-voiced blues I imagined but…

Reading the title, you might think that this post is about my parents who have been retired for a little more than a year now and are still figuring it out. You might think that I am going to write about how the number of annual visits (two) from them has inexplicably NOT risen, despite…

We’ve got our beach tokens and we’ve tested the water… it’s officially summer.

Bea and I returned from our trip to Midland yesterday afternoon. We had our ups and downs on this trip. Bea got sick on Friday night – her first throw-up sick. Poor thing. You should have seen Jennifer and Mom jump into action helping to clean her up, change the blankets in the crib, and…