Wooohoo! As soon as I posted my last update, we learned that the electric has been switched to our name! We should be good to go now! Only another couple weeks until we can move in! I'm SO RELIEVED. To celebrate, here is a cute picture of my cute kids doing something cute. Because cute.

House hunting continues Tuesday with five more houses to see (yay!), but in the meantime I've been meaning to talk about our hotel! Brett, this one is for you.

I posted once before about warnings I'd read about driving in Sicily. Turns out, descriptions such as "the seemingly erratic driving nature of Sicilian traffic" were a bit of an understatement. Last night, for example, resulted in us and others having to go the wrong way on a one-way street because we ran into an u [...]

Today is our anniversary! Chris and I got married six years ago today (yes, Sept. 11) in Bolingbrook, Ill. I might be biased, but I think our wedding was a blast!

Well, today it became clear that I'm definitely getting older (as if the two kids growing like weeds in front of my eyes weren't a good enough hint). 1) I got glasses. 2) My new credit card arrived and I got so excited it might as well have been a pony. This seems like a good opportunity to recommend that an [...]

I was going to write today about the reason we are maybe not leaving until Oct. 24. But now, sitting in front of my computer for the first time to [...]