Whoa, is this old!

It has been many years since my last post. A lot has evolved since then.

First, we found the house---the house to raise our kids within for the second half of childhood.  It is in Elmhurst.  It took 2 more kids to be born for us to get here!  

We came out with kid #5, Taylor Clarke, in 2014. Here she is now:

As for today's day-to-day we are in the middle of a pandemic. It's been going on almost a year now.  Not sure when it will end but hoping by the Fall so school for the kids can go back to normal (Paige and Madison are full remote, Chase is full in-person, and Tay and Kinz are hybrid, so they go in 2x a week).

Kevin has been working for Naperville since right before Chase was born.  He was able to work through the pandemic as an "essential employee."  I had been as well. We were remote from Mar 18-June 1.  We went to 4 days in and 1 remote optional until Jan when we went 5 days in the office.  I finished a term with the ABA of 15 years and now one with the MCA for 5.  It's time for a new chapter in my career!  Let me know if you have thoughts on that front!

#family #pandemic #remote #change

It's been a year...

It's been a year since we've posted anything on here. In that year, the highlight has been the birth of our third munchkin, Gregory Chase. We wish we could go back to Europe, but it's not going to be in the cards for a while. With 3 kids in a 2 BR/2 BA place, we are bursting at the seams. We keep riding the housing market roller coaster--teasing ourselves by seeing bigger places and then realizing the owners won't sell for FMV. Oh well--the saga continues. We hope the highlight for us this year is the finding of THE house, the one we'll live in until our kids have grown. It's a tall order, we know--but we think one day (hopefully soon!) we will fill it. Our focus has been on Elmhurst (know anyone selling there?), where we have a fantastic realtor who knows the area named Amy Schiller, and I'm guessing that by now she wants to be done with us--we have been looking off and on with her for two years. Ahhh!

As for what's going on right now, not too much. I'm finishing maternity leave and Kevin left last weekend to help those hit by Gustav turn the power back on. More to come here, I hope!