Archive for September, 2010

What We’ve Learned: Month 25

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

(This is nearly a week late, and I feel terrible. Work has been nuts, my traveling season has started up, and overall work madness had made it so I’m working most nights and full days and don’t have 10 seconds to string together a cogent thought.) A few years ago, when we had three cats [...]

Trucksapalooza

Friday, September 17th, 2010

I was away last weekend (Friday until Sunday morning) because of work, and Kristen, looking for fun things to do with Henry and without me, saw that there was a Touch-a-Truck event in neighboring Lincolnwood. (Lincolnwood borders Chicago up north where we are, and it’s only about 15 minutes from our house.) It took place [...]

Vroom! Vroomy-vroom-vroom!

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

I remember loving Legos as a child. And Star Wars toys. And comic books. But each of those were when I was older — 6, 7, 8. Before that, I don’t really remember anything specifically. It’s not to say that I didn’t have toys or play with anything (I did), I just don’t remember them. [...]