When I was little, vacation always, always, always meant a trip to the beach. It was fun and the ocean and sand and shells were things we didn’t see everyday, but when I think of dream vacations today, I never think of a Floridian beach. I saw this amazing Scottish castle turned beautiful holiday home [...]
Joel and I just got to my parents’ house in West Virginia. I promise that eight hour drive from Illinois seems longer every time we make it. (During the ride I made a bunch more cozies for the store.) We left Cors with our puppy sitter. (Thanks Audra!!!) We miss him, but I know he [...]
We made it back to Illinois. It was such a wonderful Christmas that it was a little sad to leave. But nothing quite compares to sleeping in your own bed and drinking coffee from your own mugs. Mom and dad got me a beautiful new desk and desk chair for Christmas, and Joel built the [...]
Saturday we drove up to Cincinnati for my aunt’s 50th birthday. We got to see most of my mom’s side of the family and then spent the night at my other grandma’s house (in Kentucky). We got up this morning and it was gorgeous outside. We had breakfast and walked down to the pond that [...]
::::::Edit:::::: Thunderstorms in Chicago = no festival for us. I just loaded my Polaroid camera (Jon found it at the thrift store and gave it me because he is nice) with film for the first time. Today we are driving up to Chicago to see Vampire Weekend and Jarvis Cocker at Pitchfork. (You can’t take [...]
Home again! It is very nice to be home with Cors. He has been so sweet and excited to see us. We are lucky to have found wonderful people to watch him. (Apparently he was a little terror.) While we were in Europe I kept a journal. Here are bits of it: July 2, 2008 [...]
Last Wednesday we left for West Virginia for some time with family and friends. Thursday we went shopping, met dad for lunch, and took Cors and Aggie (my parents’ bulldog) to the park: Friday we baked, cooked, chopped and in the evening, had a great time barbecuing with with some beautiful friends. The smore’s were [...]
We leave for Portugal in just sixteen days!
Spring break has been quite nice. I spent last week stripping about sixty years worth of old wall paper off of the Library walls, finishing the tile in the half bath, reading a bit, doing some class work, and just relaxing. The weather has been fabulously rainy which has been nice for me but Cors [...]
Joel and I surprised my parents with a visit this weekend. Today is Dad’s birthday and we helped out with his party. Tomorrow Joel and I are going snowboarding. They got more snow today so it should be quite wonderful. Cors is having a wonderful time running around with Aggie the bulldog. And it is [...]
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