Miles has had the interesting experience over the last week of coming home to a place that was only recently home-like. The group’s trip to Lesbos ended and they flew back home to Athens, into a neighborhood and apartments that only recently had seemed very unfamiliar! The weekend Miles arrived…

I’m going to do a few shorter posts to get some important photos out there – Miles in Lesbos! He spent 3 weeks in Athens, then went to Lesbos for 3 weeks. He’s going back to Athens tomorrow. More on the program Miles is on can be read here, and…

I’ll start with the big news event, Miles has arrived in Greece! He flew into Chicago on Friday evening (right smack into a very humid and hot spell, which we are very glad to say broke today). Saturday evening we invited Liam and Kat over to send Miles off with…

Hello! Realizing I have photos from before and after our vacation to Colorado to share. Way back in June, Miles came to Chicago for 2 weeks. We had a great time catching up with him, and he was also able to visit a lot of his friends. One weekend during…

Whoa, long overdue blog post! And hopefully several in a row, since we have a lot of catching up to do since the mid-June roundup! I was inspired to write today since a news item reminded me of our vacation in July and how lucky our timing was. But first,…

The last month has felt very much like life in fast forward – due both to the start of summer in Chicago feeling like an explosion of things to do even in a regular year, and also since the city and state are now at Level 5 = no Covid…

This month started off with … baby geese! We were at the park checking on our favorite duck mama when two adult and two goslings came strutting across the bridge! They were spreading oohs and aahs all over and have been delighting all the people at the park. In the…

Quick update on vaccine progress this week: Mom and Dad got their second Pfizer shots on Wednesday, and I got my second Pfizer on Friday! They didn’t have much reaction, and I had (am in the throes of) a pretty typical reaction – fever and aches about 18 hours after…

It was a big week for us here, not just celebrating myself and Miles’ birthday, but also getting my second Pfizer shot! Miles had gotten his 2nd shot a few weeks ago, so was able to enjoy a birthday party at his house, with 15 or so of his fellow…

There was really just one theme to this week: lots of vaccinations in the C & the Kennymen world! We had two seconds – Debbie and Miles both got their second shots. Mom and Dad got their first shots in Kansas City, and I got my first shot at Northwestern…