Last night was the Whitney Young Prom (like the Debs in Ireland), and Liam and Ellen went with 6 other friends. These kids are so nice, organized, creative in their planning, and they also clean up real well! Liam and I left home at about 4:20 and went to the…

Cynthia, Liam and Miles got up early on Sunday morning (5:45) to bike the drive. This is an Annual event where Lakeshore Drive is shut down and cyclists cycle up-and-down the lakefront in Chicago. Unlike other years that we have done this, the weather this year was perfect! This is…

Some friends of ours (Andre and Linda) have been bitten (pecked?) by the farming bug and have installed a chicken coup in their back yard. We were there over Memorial Day weekend and Liam got to hold one of the chickens!

Faced with the hassle of renewing my green card, I instead decided to once and for all be done with the pleasures of dealing with the INS and go instead for the full status of a US citizen. That process came to an end this week when I was finally…

John went in for what was scheduled to be a 2-hour appointment with the Immigration and Naturalization Service this morning, and ended up passing handily in a mere 13 minutes! That even includes the brief pause before his reply to the question: “what is the national anthem?” https://archive.org/details/Movieton1944 Other questions…

Hammock installed in back yard! Miles installed in hammock!

This week Liam had a few days off school, one of which was spent getting all dressed up and going to a boat at Navy Pier for lunch with all the other Whitney Young senior/final year students.  Again, all photos from Facebook and one really nice photo of Liam and…

There’s a bunch of photos from Liam’s trip to Birmingham Alabama that we’re posted to facebook by his friends that we thought it would be nice to share here.  Most are of him and the kids from Whitney Young hanging out (including Robert who will be joining us on the…

It was tricky figuring out how to sort out the place where the bottom of the wooden steps met the “ground,” especially since what was considered the ground was an uneven and badly made surface. The new ground level is made of the same pavers as the path, and we…