Over the 4 day weekend Liam and Miles had various fun times and not so fun times together. After one game-gone-wrong on Monday, I asked them to each write a paragraph about why they should not play the game that caused such problems. Here’s Miles’s response: Liam refused to do…

With the temperature about to break 50f we went down to Navy Pier for a nice walk and then a movie (nicely missing the rain showers). Miles got to meet the Dr Seuss cat and Cindy got to have the white wedding of her dreams! (latter comment is a joke…

Cindy and Liam ran into the Chicago version of the iditarod, the Alaskan dog sled race. Its called the Chiditarod and involves a lot of people dressing up as vikings, pirates, mitt romney supporters and in this case “babies for obama.” They push shopping carts around racing around the city…

Skittles is thriving. He’s shed again, I think this is 5 times now. We cleaned out his cage and took the opportunity to take a photograph of him. . Usually he stays all buried under the newspaper or inside the the various sculptural elements in his habitat, so it was…

We saw a great show at the Lookingglass Theatre with the Groves tonight, it was an acrobatic/circus version of the myth of Hephaestus, involving at one point two guys on a tightrope connected by a pole on their shoulders on which there was a woman sitting on a chair, balancing…

Hang on, a few explanations will make this all very clear. First, the Daily News is a part of Miles’s day at school. Each day they write up a “Daily News” sheet then read them out to the class. They bring the paper home every night. On this particular day,…

Work began tonight on the 7-month old leaking water main in front of our house. In the dark, with snow falling heavily, the ground frozen and covered with ice and snow, a crew arrived, knocked on doors until all the cars were moved, and started digging. Very exciting for a…

Last week in New York I had an opportunity to go to Conor McPhearson’s new play “The Seafarer.” It’s set in North Dublin, where all the characters are degenerate drunks who spend most of their lives in the pubs of Kilester, Raheny, Bayside, Sutton and Baldolye. It’s was really excellent,…

Mayor Daley would be proud of us for how we spent Sunday–we went to the Art Institute, which is free for all of February, we ice skated at Millennium Park, we sat in the warming tent and had a hot chocolate by the ice rink, then we went to check…

This weekend was the bald eagle viewing weekend at Starved Rock so we went to take a look. And of course we had to go for a walk through Matthieson Park as well, always fun any time of year. This time, much of the river in the dells was frozen…