Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
This has nothing to do with anything, but I want this forever preserved for posterity. There is a facebook page for local folks to sell items. Zak was the 2,500th member a few months ago and was awarded unlimited posts for a full month for being the milestone member. Being Zak, he finds the potential […]
Read More Brookfield SwapWe embraced REIs #optoutside campaign and spent some time hiking at Fermilab in Batavia. It was a cold 37 degrees with constant misty rain hitting our faces as the wind harshly blew. The trail was flat and consisted primarily of recent burned prairie grasses. Not very pretty. Huge lake-like puddles had formed wherever the trail took […]
Read More Fermilab HikeI have disliked winter, snow, cold for nearly as long as I can remember. My rheumatoid arthritis always is at its worse during the long months between November and March. I feel sluggish, bored, bummed. In fact, I was so consistantly grumpy a few years ago that Zak gave me one of those crazy expensive […]
Read More HyggeI blinked and 10 years passed. A whole decade. Lately this blog has only documented our journeys, so I don’t want to deviate too far from that. I simply want to state that this last road trip changed all of us. When I think of the transformations the girls went through, I think that as […]
Read More Zoe’s Current Age: 1 DecadeLeave it to Zak and Zoe to bring a lime home from the store for me. Zak is trying to convince the girls the Lyme disease causes intense cravings of limes.
Read More Tick (update 3)I was just informed by Ellie that Zak told the girls that I freak out. Zak immediately denied that and asked Zoe to clarify exactly what was said. Turns out that while I was at the Minute Clinic this conversation occurred: Zak: Sometimes mom overreacts. Zoe: Like me. That’s where I get it from. So, […]
Read More Tick (update 2)The kind doctor at the Minute Clinic prescribed me an antibiotic, praised my tick removal skills, and pathetically handed me a pamphlet on Lyme disease. Now I wait a week to see if symptoms appear.
Read More Tick (update 1)It is a Friday night. The girls have the next week off, it’s Zoe’s birthday weekend, and we had big plans of eating pizza and watching “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.” It is a classic, after all. So after school, I was sipping a glass of wine while Zak and the girls were playing […]
Read More TickAs I’m sure we’ve mentioned on this blog, one of our long term goals is to do some true backpacking rather than the long day hikes that we’ve done in the past and have planned for the upcoming summer. The biggest implication of this is that if we’re going to be on the trail for […]
Read More Trial CampingWhew! What a weekend! Two FULL days, and we are back home, doing laundry, and packing lunches for tomorrow. Kind of like any other Sunday evening, but this week we all have fresh memories of a remarkable weekend. We arrived at Starved Rock at 1:30ish on Saturday, quickly found a campsite, and had the two […]
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