No Monsters in My Bed

Once or twice a year we pack up the minivan and drive 730 miles to visit my mother in the Chicago suburbs. Usually we divide the trip into...

On the drive back from Chicago, we stopped at the Historic Sauder Village - outside Toledo, OH (I'll post more on the village tomorro...

A walk around the lake followed by huge ice cream cones = not a bad way to spend a morning, especially when the dog walks T and P plays K...

While visiting my mom in the southwest suburbs, we decided to spend an afternoon at downtown Chicago' newish Millennium Park (the park...

My usual solution for road trip boredom is to check out some new DVDs from Netflix and hope for the best. But as three children had to sha...