Made you look! Did you think I was going to say we were awaiting the arrival of our 5th child? No such luck – probably wouldn’t declare it for the first time on a blog anyway. I just wanted to share my son’s first professional haircut that made everyone joke about him being a different […]
Ok, so no one in the family has bad health (at least not yet, we’ll see what happens in a few weeks after the stress from the holidays and everything I’m about to unload takes its toll) and for that I am very grateful, but we have been hit by some bad luck in the
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Family brawl erupts at children’s pizza place Deborah Donovan | Daily Herald Staff Contact writer CHICAGO: Arlington Heights police are investigating a “family ordeal that got out of hand” Sunday night at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant, 955 W. Dundee Road. According to Sgt. Tom Boggs, a family was apparently celebrating the birthday of a
My almost 17-month-old son has started using “tools”. When we put up the Christmas decorations, he started pulling chairs away from the table, pushing them over to the bookcase to try to climb and get at the nativity. Yesterday, he took down a wall hanging and began to use the hanger rod as a spoon
I forgot to poll our Thanksgiving guests, but I was wondering about everyone’s favorite Thanksgiving dish. Judging by what the kids had for breakfast this morning, I would say my kids’ favorite Thanksgiving dishes are as follows: Taylor, age 9 – sweet potatoes (we put marshmallow creme in ours) Sammie, age 5 – mashed potatoes
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I am thankful every day for all that I have, but today is an excuse to feast in celebration of our thankfulness. Here’s to hoping you have a safe and happy holiday! Lisa
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My almost 10-year-old daughter has a friend I’ll call Kathy. Kathy has been over to our house to play with my daughter for years, and we’ve never really had much of a problem. We’ve noticed lately that Kathy isn’t as well behaved as our daughter’s other friends, and she also is not as tolerant of
I really don’t, but try singing this blog post title to the tune of “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”, just for laughs. And for further amusement, here is a picture of the customized cupcake cars, which of course come complete with candy caps for the contraptions’ captains! All joking aside, thankfully I don’t know
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While I’m on the subject of our visit to the zoo… well, in some ways it wasn’t our best visit, that’s probably why it took me almost a week to get motivated to write about it. A few of us were still recovering from the flu, while others in the family were coming down with
We had a chance to visit the Toledo Zoo the other day and snapped this amusing pic of a meerkat just chillin’. Is this a common pose for a meerkat? I’ve never seen one sitting up like this before last Saturday. Anyone watch Meerkat Manor? Lisa
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