Upon reading in the news that Iceland may have exploding fissures of molten rock that spew forth enough gasses to blanket the earth in clouds for up to 6 months, it is often best to return to a daily mantra or a moment in time where you weren’t plagued by fear and to think, [...]

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Yep, this is a picture of us standing at the zero points in Chicago on State Street.
Ok. It’s 7am. Far too early to blog coherently. I’m more of a night owl, and this organized mommy stuff is against my nature. But anyway, I’m up marinating London Broil and packing lunch and preparing healthful snacks [...]

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Picture from our recent visit to the Grove’s log cabin.
Here’s the story of the flaxseed. I give my kids flaxseed oil once or twice a week. It’s not because I like lecturing them about their health, or that I enjoy coaxing them out from under their beds when they see me pouring the stuff. It’s [...]

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That survey called me an activist mommy, and I have lived up to it, at least in theory. Normally, I take my kids only to very mellow protests. Thursday though, we went with a pal in search of the anarchists of the Haymarket and found a few bonuses along the way. When does a [...]

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This is a picture of Fi on Saturday, along with her fellow Gryffindor teammates, accepting the golden snitch trophies they won as they stole last year’s title from Hufflepuff.
Anyway, so yeah, you asked, Jamie. A local bookstore has had this thing called an Owl Post club going on for 4 years. It’s basically a [...]

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We said goodbye to our charge for the summer, Miss Sophie. She headed off to preschool. Now we see her 4 times a week, but for less than an hour. She was with us 8 to 10 hours a day for most of the summer. I feel like I sent one off to college [...]

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This is Fi lazing away on a recent picnic day at Triton college gardens. I couldn’t help but go photoballistic. Looks like there is a photography club in my area now. So maybe I’ll torture them for awhile and leave you good folks alone. Then again, I’d have to PRINT pictures to share with them. [...]

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Took a leave of blog there for a few days. I’ve been time travelling mostly and in more ways than one. Firstly, by reading The Time Traveller’s Wife, which is a really awesome book set in Chicago. All of the settings take me back through time to my own visits to those places, and pretty [...]

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