Chrissy and I are very involved parents, so we don’t normally get to go out by ourselves very often. Every night, it’s dinner, bath, books and then bed for the kids. Not to complain, but it’s nice to get a “Date Night” every once in a while. Cassie agreed to babysit for us while we did the...
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While researching things to do with the kids over Spring Break, Chrissy found out that Body Worlds would have a premiere opening at the Museum of Science and Industry. Body Worlds is basically cadavers arranged in interesting poses. It’s a little more refined than that, in that each cadaver has been impregnated with...
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I put in a short retaining wall in the front and sides of our house when we first moved in. Just as decoration, not to actually hold anything back. I had to level the ground, put guide lines down and stack each row of bricks. It took several days, it sucked, and I got a painful sunburn on my back. In contrast, installing the...
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We watch way too much Disney Channel in our house. My boys love the Imagination Movers and Choo Choo Soul. We’ll DVR their shows and watch them over and over again. We saw both acts live on stage separately before, so we were excited to see them again. When tickets for the “In A Big Warehouse” tour went on...
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Chrissy was looking into buying a raised plant bed on the internet for her upcoming vegetable garden. They were way too expensive, and I knew that I could build one myself. How hard could it possibly be? It probably wouldn’t cost much, either. I could buy the parts cheaply and slap it together in an hour. I was...
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Last year, I took Aiden to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place. C2E2 was in its first year, but it was the first comic convention that Aiden had ever been to. We went specifically to see super heroes (and take their picture), and we met about a dozen. Aiden had a good time and we vowed to return. This...
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Last year, Chrissy’s mom had a very productive vegetable garden. Chrissy likes the idea of having fresh vegetables that we don’t have to pay for, so this summer we are going to have a vegetable garden too. We started off with a batch of seedlings growing in a plastic rack. Chrissy has them on the dining room table in...
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We really like the Stride Rite shoes because they hold up very well, and the people at the store are very helpful. Stride Rite was having a buy-one-get-one-half-off sale, so we took the boys in for new shoes. They get new styles of shoes in every so often, and this time they had a shoe that looks like a race car. They come in...
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