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One of our favorite places to go for a few hours during the day is Disneyland or Disney California Adventures. We are only about a 20 minute drive from the theme parks so we can pop in there for a couple of hours on any given day. We usually stay for 3 hours max, depending on nap […]

Over the last few weeks, Jackson has become more and more interested in being more like the adults when eating at the table. He wants to eat food in the same form that we have it (for example, taking bites out of a burger instead of us deconstructing it for us), he wants to use […]

One of my favorite places for a fun family vacation and quick getaway from Chicago is Door County, Wisconsin. This summer with the girls’ camp and summer school schedules, we didn’t have time to plan a big vacation, but we still wanted to have some quality family time away from work and other responsibilities. Only a […]

Mrs. Bee’s recent post about city living really got me thinking about the reasons why I love suburbia. As fun as city life is, I really can’t imagine living anywhere but the suburbs! Looks like I’m not alone either, as studies have found that the percentage of people who long to live in the suburbs […]

Once Charlie started public school, there were so many school events and holidays we needed a better system to keep track of them. Google Calendar on our phones wasn’t cutting it because we needed something we could see in one glance every day. So I painted our entryway wall with chalkboard paint and put up […]

Drake has recently been on a huge Curious George kick. Since he started watching the show, I’ve discovered that a lot of science is actually incorporated into the plots. On the surface it seems like a show that closely resemble the books about a naughty monkey and his adventures. But the show does a great […]

We didn’t do much to prepare my cat Smokey for Charlie’s birth because she had been through so many moves in the past and handled it fine (including a cross country flight), she had a lot of child-free space and plenty of hiding places, her litterbox was inaccessible to Charlie, and she was never allowed […]