Same Old Shannon

Yesterday Nathan and I went to a rummage sale at the nearby Jewish temple.  We visited toward the end of the multi-day sale, and the organiz...

Welcome to coffee at my house!  Look at the pretty hydrangea centerpiece I've placed on the table.  (And don't you like how that ra...

I begin this post with a camp retrospective. In 2009, when Nathan was two, he went to Junior Explorers camp.  It was only two days a week,...

It was an up-and-down kind of week.  First we experienced the unseasonable heat and the complete failure of our home air conditioning, which...

By great coincidence, my friend/workout partner Dana and her family were in Gurnee at the same time we were.  They have season passes to Six...

I didn't do a great job of taking photos on this trip.  Sometimes you just forget.  On Thursday Nathan and I hit the waterpark first t...

That's the catchphrase of the full-throttle-fun-all-the-time indoor waterpark "resort" known as Key Lime Cove. Which is wher...