My butter dish is useless – since butter comes in a different (larger) size here. Duh They are so very punctual here. Some people have to come through our house to do some repairs on the outside of our building – they specified they would be here between 1:15 and 1:30. Ha – usually in…

Our travel day went really well. Bea was such a good girl. She spontaneously fell asleep on the plane from Chicago to Washington DC – with her head bobbing uncomfortably to the side – poor thing. She pulled her little Trunki through the airport like a big girl (with a little encouragement from mom). She watched…

We had a little birthday party for Jenna, Bea and Jennifer before we left. It was all sweetness with pink and purple balloons and smiley, very excited girls. And the biggest cake failure I’ve ever made – the frosting didn’t set up and the cake was a little off. It looked like a large pink…

Here’s that same shipping container that left Evanston several weeks ago. Brian emailed this photo Friday and said our stuff has arrived safely. Amazing. Here’s our bed – our bed that Brian finally got to sleep in last night. 

We’ve been passing the days pleasantly here at Grandpa and Grandma J.’s.  Tying flies with Grandpa Eating cream puffs that Jennifer made   Playing with the ever-patien Baxter Taking some photos in the backyard  Getting a haircut We are looking forward to having a little birthday party for Jenna, Bea and Jennifer on Saturday and…

I’ve been here for more than a week now. Still sleeping on a blow up bed, still no furniture save a fold up chair borrowed from a work colleague. It echoes something fierce in this place. But I think I see a routine forming. The ride on the train is more than 10 miles but…

Here are two fight scenes from Mom and Dad’s backyard. Those girls really go at it. Bea’s about to kick Jenna while she’s down in the first photo. Then Jenna retaliates with a big stick in the second photo.        Just kidding – these photos just happened to look like they were going…