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The park district sponsored an event with perhaps the best concept ever.  They called it Touch a Truck and invited all the local businesses, fire departments etc. to park trucks in the big parking lot and let kids climb on them for a day.  Here are a few of the fun photos.  Click on the [...]

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These are photos from our recent trip to Florida.  It was a jam packed weekend with mother’s day, my mom’s birthday, my sisters graduation with her MSW, my goddaughter’s baptism and a full fledged family party.  Here are a few of the best photos but there are of course a million more here.

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When we lived in Tegus last year I was at home alone with the kids and someone rang our doorbell.  I went down to answer the door and looking through the gate I could see it was three people with vests, official looking badges and clipboards.  It’s important to note here that when I say [...]

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One commitment we made when we moved back to Chicago was to take advantage of the millions of activities that are part of the benefit of living near a big city.  It’s nice to talk about the world class museums and summer festivals, but unless you actually get out and go you might as well [...]

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I mentioned in my post yesterday that music being a central part of our life is due in large part to some choices we made about how we set up our house.  Since 2006 when we moved back from Honduras (the first time) Erika and I have had a running conversation where I propose getting [...]

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I was home by myself last week with the three kids and we did what so many kids and fathers do when Mom leave them alone together.  We turned the music up.  Loud.  And we’re not talking kid’s stuff here, we’re talking Radiohead’s Ok Computer.   
High on the list of the one million reasons I [...]

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On New Year’s Eve Betsy, Erika, Davis and I (with lots of help and dishwashing support) put on a culinary extravaganza with a 6 course meal from 6pm to midnight.  Here are some photos highlights of the food.  The full photo gallery (with some photos of actual people) can be found here.
~ 6 pm Pavo [...]

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