We went back to another one of our old haunts yesterday – Wagner Farm. It’s a cute little farm set up as it would have been in the 1920s or 1930s. We toured the old farm house and then ran over to see the chickens: It was a dairy farm – so we had to…

The girls have a new babysitter and we went to see Aida at Ravinia. It was so nice! Here are some old posts from when we visited Ravinia with little Bea. I also got to ride on a Metra train for the first time. The Metra is the suburban Chicago train system – separate from…

We took a walk a bit north of our house at the Old Fort Sheridan area. It was a chilly and misty day. There was some complaining – but it was beautiful. The rocks on this beach are so nice an round. We took a few home with us. There’s a meadow above the beach…