Bean and Buddy had their first soccer practice of the season a few days ago. What is it about watching your kids play sports for the first time that fills your heart with pride and totally hokey emotions? They’re chasing around a ball for f’s sake! (By the way, if you live in Chicago [...]
TOPICS: chicago
Sep 27 2007
Addicted
Me: Hello. My name is Janet. I’m a Facebook-aholic.Other Pathetic Addicts: Hello, Janet.
Linked In, MySpace… thou art so lame in comparison (okay, LinkedIn is cool if you are actually looking for a job and trying to be all serious or something).
One of my Facebook friends has 340+ friends. Wha–? I think I’m at my max [...]
Aug 28 2007
Mini Architects
The kids and I have been taking in the city during their time off between camp and school. So far we’ve hit Garfield Conservatory, The Notebaert Nature Museum, the Chicago History Museum, the Come In And Play Center, various commercial stores where they will play for hours, and walks up and down Michigan Ave. It’s [...]
Aug 22 2007
And I Thought The Most Direct Route From China to NY Was A Dug Hole
I stand next to the slide, watching Bean and Buddy in the faux treetop above. A girl (eight? nine?) makes her way down the slide slowly. As she nears me, she says, “You’re very pretty.”
Assuming she is either talking to someone behind me, or is suffering the early onslaught of cataracts — poor thing — [...]
Jul 24 2007
Gratuitous Pics
Some pictures of the twins since moving here (mostly contributed by Awesome SIL. I’m surrounded by great SILs, I know):
*edited to remove most pictures to fend off creepiness
At Dad’s office:
When Bean first started talking, she would say, “I wub” instead of “I love.”
Bean & Buddy: I wub.
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Speaking of SILs, FingKASIL’s birthday was yesterday. Happy Birthday [...]
May 20 2007
Sofaking Blog
In an effort to clean up my language and get back into the good graces of the DDR Police, I’m going to try really really hard to be 2-legit-2-quit over here. (Or at least curse in code.)
My last post was over a month ago but I feel like I’ve been gone for twelve years. I [...]
Mar 29 2007
Abe Froman, Here We Come
I keep trying to start a new post and get totally sidetracked because my mind is going in a million different directions right now. As of yesterday, G has two more weeks left at his job. At the end of April, he will be starting a new job… in Chicago! That gives us approximately one [...]
