This morning, I took Crazy I and Crazy II uniform shopping. Thankfully we got there right as the doors were opening and just before the rush. (There was a line out of the store by the time we left.) Jack will wear essentially the same thing he wore last year.
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Entries from August 2008
Shopping
August 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Family, School
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The Park
August 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Adventures, Family, Parenting
I know. A trip to the park with the kids is pretty mundane. No real excitement there, right? Same old stuff - climbing, swinging, playing.
Except that this park had it all.
First of all, it was a perfect day. Perfect. No humidity. None. Clear skies. Breeze. Just [...]
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Exhaling…
August 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Moving
We bought a house. Or, we think we did. We have a signed contract, anyway, and the inspection happens tomorrow. If all goes as planned, we should close on the 20th. Whooohooooo!
I think I also have the kids set for school. I’ve done the tour, filled out the paperwork and now I just need to [...]
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Let there be light! Or not…
August 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Adventures, Family, Parenting
After not attending mass on Sunday, we decided to do the tourist thing and visit Navy Pier. We wanted to do something fun with the kids, so we headed east toward the city.
We arrived in the vicinity of Navy Pier and discovered that Lallapazooza was going on. This is like a modern-day Woodstock, [...]
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God, I tried.
August 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Adventures, Church, Family, Moving, Parenting
All week we’ve been planning to attend mass at one of the parishes where our children might be attending school. I was looking forward to church there and just seeing what the community was like. We had already been there to meet with the principal, but just in case, I had written down [...]
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