We forgot to mention that while we were down in Urbana Champaign yesterday, we also had a chance to see the house that Liam and his friends will be moving into next year. Liam is excited to have his own room, access to private bathroom and a kichen, so he…

Three years ago Cindy brought Liam down to the university of Illinois Engineering Open House to give Liam a taste of what engineering would be like. This year, Liam was one of the demonstrators so we decided to visit Liam and see how he was doing. First we brought Liam…

Right around the time of Rory’s christening on Saturday afternoon in Sydney, it was Friday evening here and Miles and I went to Umami Burger for dinner. How fitting that they had Aussie Bundaberg Ginger Beer on the menu!

Not the hit Disney movie… But footprints and compost! These footprints appeared after sweeping away loose snow, creating a snow ‘positive’ print on the steps.   This speaks volumes but this time of year we like to gaze into the composter and wonder aloud about what will happen first: will…

Last weekend we went with Sarah and Thomas to see nacho libre the movie and live Lucha libre wrestling. It was really fun, extremely lively, and the crowd’s enthusiasm was way infectious! It reminded me of a pantomime, lots of audience participating and cheering. Not a great photo but here’s…

A 120+ year old house in Chicago with a full west exposure has some tough demands in terms of window treatments. Many of our windows are drafty in winter and let in too much heat in summer. Yet there are plenty of days where we want the windows open for…

We have been playing a new board game called Twilight Struggle. It’s set in the Cold War and the two players take on roles of the us and ussr. Miles just finished a unit on the Cold War and john and I are both hooked on The Americans, a spy…

As readers may remember from our Christmas morning post, I gave john a Chicago indie coffee shop passport. The passport went missing during the wild party we attended on New Year’s Eve but host Geoff very conscientiously emailed all guests in January with a list of items found the next…

In answer to Colette’s question, I’ll post a few more dibs photos. I realized that perhaps one reason we haven’t posted about dibs before is because the whole thing is very annoying! But anyway, here are some more examples. This car is in presumably it’s own claimed spot, so the…

I searched through past blog posts and don’t see that we ever brought up the subject of “dibs”. Dibs are a highly controversial topic in Chicago in winter. This is the deal: when it snows a lot, cars parked on the street get all blocked in both from the snow…