Aiden had two field trips to Scheeringa Farms last week, one with each of the pre-schools that he is attending. Chrissy chaperoned the trip with the public school class and I tagged along with the private school class a few days later. On both visits, both the parent and the child were allowed to pick out one pumpkin each from...
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Once again, it’s time to decorate the front yard for Halloween. The garage rafters were full of orange storage boxes, including last year’s monstrous Day-After-Halloween haul. Just getting everything out was a chore, but it was all worth it once the yard was complete. We easily have as many Halloween decorations as...
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I like to put out Christmas lights for the holiday season. The boys aren’t old enough to help me yet, so it’s usually just me out there, schlepping the half-dozen boxes of decorations out into the front yard. Traditionally, we’ll decorate for Christmas on the weekend after Thanksgiving. Which day? Whichever...
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Even though we had already been to Chicago once this week, we were told that tonight would be the warmest it was going to be for a long time. So, what better night to walk around the Lincoln Park Zoo and look at Christmas lights? Every year, Lincoln Park Zoo has a “Zoo Lights” display from late November until early...
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Chrissy and I both graduated from Indiana University, so we love IU-branded stuff. We try to pick up new IU ornaments for our Christmas tree every year. We’ve been collecting them since 2002, when Chrissy graduated, so there are quite a few on our tree. Here are some of the ones that we currently have on display. We...
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On the day after Halloween last year, Chrissy and I bought a whole bunch of new decorations on clearance. In fact, Chrissy left early that morning in order to get the best deals on the 50%-off holiday swag, and she grabbed so much that she had to call me at home to come and man a second cart. We toted two jammed grocery carts...
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Chrissy and I look forward to the day after Christmas almost as much as the day after Thanksgiving. We wake up early every year to get fifty percent off of all the seasonal goods. You have to wake up early to get the good stuff, since there’s always a crowd of people waiting outside the store to scavenge before you. We were at...
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I spent the better part of Sunday putting up the outdoor Christmas decorations. I generally don’t like to sit outside in the cold, but it’s impractical to bring every strand of Christmas lights into the house to check them where it’s warm. So I sat out in the garage, laying each strand out and then plugging them in...
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