Chicago
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Fun With The Family In Chicago
I think I need a vacation to recover from my vacation. Maybe a vacation by a pool or a beach with someone to bring me food, drinks, and books at regular intervals. Instead, I am home with five million loads of laundry to do and an empty fridge. Such is life. Basically, this vacation was for the kids. After my husband’s family left we started on a mad dash of doing everything the kids wanted in the city. We had made a lot of promises about things we would do when next we went to Chicago and the kids remembered every one of those promises. It was a lot of…
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Family Vacations And Other Nonsense
We are in Chicago spending a few days with my husband’s family. Family vacations can be… interesting but there have been some bright spots in the last few days. First of all, this book. It is yet another one on my list of books I wonder why I have never read before. Funny and charming with such a wonderfully eccentric family. It kept me chuckling during the whole flight and the following hours-long fight with the rental car company about a car with faulty brakes. Did he write more books about his family? I hope so, this wasn’t enough. I ran into the grocery store to pick up a few…
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Book Plans
My daughter is at a friend’s house, my son is doing homework, and my husband is listening to the news. I am sitting on the couch planning my reading for the next week or so. I don’t usually plan what I am going to read and in what order I will read it but we are going away at the end of the week so that means packing books. This is very serious business. We are going to Chicago for a week. My husband’s family lives in Illinois and we used to live out there. We are flying into Chicago, spending a few days with his family and then the…
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Little Things #5
Things look a little different around here, don’t they? It’s so pretty now. I was never really happy with how my blog looked, but I thought I should see if I was going to stick with it before I got too involved in changing it. Over the weekend I bought a template for next to nothing on Etsy and installed it. It was surprisingly fun figuring everything out. I think everything works fine now, but if you find any problems please let me know. This week has been a little slow, full of boring but necessary things like car repairs and more car repairs. I was in an accident about…
