We walked around the city on Sunday. It’s all decked out for Christmas. You can ride on a tram with Santa: Bea with her camera face and her traditional, over-priced cookie from the Christmas market. Not sure what the story is with these cookies, but we had to partake. She said it’s so pretty I don’t…

We spent our weekend decorating the house. Bea is so, so excited it’s hard to contain her. Claire is happy just pulling ornaments off the tree.

We seem to be stuck in perpetual Fall here. We can’t see snow in the mountains. It’s warm and sunny. And there were sailboats out on Lake Zurich today. I can’t complain really but, come on, it’s December now. Can’t we get some of that fluffy stuff that has been falling in Michigan? So we went down…