The Life I Have Imagined

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but I should probably make one to do a better job documenting our lives. I completely skipped blo...

Summer seems to start earlier every year, so we've been trying to make the most of May.  My step father is still fighting his cancer...

It's been a hot and busy summer around here, so I've been off the blogs.  Living and loving real life.  Lots to update: Marielle ...

After I finished my full time on-site seven week project in December (my first since the twins, after several false starts), I didn't...

The struggle is real... Our babies turn four next weekend and we'll all be off to the city for a packed long b-day weekend.  We...

And long enough that I've actually been back to work for a week. When I left my full time job 4 1/2 year ago, I had no idea what the ...

A big shout out to the twins who are 26 months old today! :) When the winter gets way too long, I can't help but think about summer...

Since the early summer, our family life has been rearranged for the big project that DH took on for our business.  Don't get me wrong, ...

As I mentioned last week, our first foray into full time outside childcare was not a huge success, even with all the thought, research and p...

A long time ago, nearly two years ago now, I wrote about leaving my job in my effort to become a mother. Well next week, I'm going ba...

So we are closer to two than not and everyone is very busy, which is why it appears we've taken the summer off of blogging. Marielle i...

As Chicago mourns the passing of movie critic and Illinois son, Roger Ebert, and the world of politics, Margaret Thatcher, and the entertai...

I was humbled to see that I already have some blog followers over on Bloglovin, which is where I guess I'm headed now that the brillian...

This time of year always reminds me of school and work, which for me have always been synonymous, until this year of course. I started worki...

Thanks Linda for the post topic!  She was wondering about my decision to leave my job for our latest cycle.  This came after the decision t...

And it couldn't come soon enough!  I am so tired, and I don't really know why.  I've been sleeping better lately than I have in ...

Though it feels like we skipped right to summer.  What a glorious weekend it was here!  It was in the 60's on Saturday and well into t...

Since we are planning to live on less than half of what we are used to, and since I figured replacing FT work stress with FT money stress wo...

Well the big news is... I've quit my job. It's not news that I've been miserable for a long time, but there wasn't much that...

I got some seemingly good, but very surprising, news late last week. The project I've been on at work for the last year and a half that ...