A couple of Christmases ago, we changed our traditional holiday travel plans. We usually make our Kansas City – Chicago drive in one day, but with an impending KC ice storm, we needed to get on the road ASAP. This led to us splitting the drive and spending the night in St. Louis. We arrive […]
I was recently lamenting the dusty box in my basement full of my pre-child holiday decorations. Each year for the past 5 years, fewer and fewer items emerge from it. This year, I barely tried. I have 3 kids this Christmas — one of whom wants to eat any and all objects he can get […]
My husband and I have a some couple-friends who do not have kids. And we have 3. And they are small and loud. This past weekend, wonderfully kind friends of ours invited us (ALL of us) over to their kid-less house to watch some baseball on Sunday afternoon. Here is the list of us vs. […]