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He climbs trees. Really tall trees. All by himself.The photo below is actually 2 photos from Bryan's cell phone spliced together because the tree was too freaking tall to get into one shot.I had to put my head between my knees when I saw it.But…

Apparently that monster storm took a right turn and headed 100 miles south to New Mexico. You know what that means? CHICAGO, baby!The Smurfs came through, man.I head to the airport in about an hour and unless really cloudy skies hold a plane down, I…

We received word this week that Declan was going to get an award at school. An award! An award called "The Good Citizen Award!" What exactly that meant we hadn't a clue, but we were excited.In typical school-fashion we received the notice precisely 1.5 days…

Fellow Etsyian Spacemonkey was kind enough to email me and let me know that A) she put one of my photos in her treasury and B) it made it to the Etsy front page the other day!Of course, I totally missed it because I have…

Girls weekend to Chicago in September? Canceled due to my father-in-law's funeral.Girls weekend to Chicago in December? Canceled because of a huge snowstorm in Chicago.Girls weekend to Chicago this upcoming weekend, rescheduled for the third time, where Aimee flies out Friday at noon?OK. Dear God,…

The three of us were just back from running errands the other day and as we pulled into the driveway, the song "Walk On The Wild Side" by Lou Reed came on. Damn. I had not heard that song in forever and I commented on…

Last night at pickup, Declan's aftercare teacher practically tackled me at the door and said, "Don't be too hard on him, he's totally panicking already." Uh-oh. So I go find my kid, happily playing, and I notice his shoes. His shoes, one which now has…