Thanksgiving Weekend

What Thanksgiving is complete without a little football on a lovely fall day?! We spent our holiday with TK's family in Princeton, Illinois and enjoyed lots of time outside with Sawyer's cousins. A wagon, a football, and a few sticks are all a boy his age needs for a grand old time in the backyard!

All this merriment was of course before a 24-hour flu came with a vengeance and wreaked havoc on children and adults alike. We brought an apple pie as well as nasty contagion from Chicago that stopped everyone in their tracks by Friday night. I've apparently got a legendary immune system though, so was the only one who wasn't knocked over by this cruel, holiday-ending illness.

Now I've got the tiniest most miniscule fraction of a clue how some pilgrim woman (or Native American I should say) felt when her family dropped like flies right and left to a horrible, unknown disease. All's well that ends well and everyone is on the mend. Sick or not, there's no better way to spend the most important days of the year than with the ones you love!

Now to put up some Christmas decorations...haul out the holly!

Anchors Away!

We've been the benevolent recipients of our friends Bruce and Carol's hospitality over the last several years. They've got a boat. A nice big sailboat. Moored in Monroe Harbor, right smack dab on the Lakefront downtown across from Millennium Park!

Captain Bruce and his lovely first mate brought us out into the lake where there was swimming, competitive diving, and general merriment. I could get used to a life of leisure.

I Scream, You Scream!

I'm not a huge fan of ice cream. I mean, I'll certainly enjoy a scoop if one is offered to me, but I don't stock it in my freezer. Don't get me wrong, I've got my vices when it comes to food, but ice cream just isn't one of them. I don't crave it. I don't bask in it's goodness.

Last week I realized that because of my disinterest though, I've unintentionally kept my sweet child from exploring his potential love-affair with it. Oops! My mom was in town and was trying to think of a date she could go on with the little guy and suggested Dairy Queen, so I encouraged the trip. Evidently he was a fan, so TK and I went again with him this past weekend.

Sawyer got a twist and I got vanilla with sprinkles. I AM a huge fan of rainbow sprinkles. Huge fan. I shared and let him take a handful. Chicago has been brutal this summer, so it was nice to actually get outside and enjoy a tolerable temperature!