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Last weekend, we made the trek again out to beautiful St. Charles, IL to take in the 2012 inHome Conference. As usual, it did not disappoint. We arrived early Thursday afternoon to register and get ready for all the conference had to offer–and I mean ALL it had to offer. Aidan refused to miss a [...]

October has been a crazy fun month–so busy in fact, I’ve had no time to write. So, to keep the blog alive, I threw together a quick montage of snapshots in the video below. We’ve been hiking, going to fall fests and carnivals, visiting nearby cities, hosting parties, pumpkin hunting, and trick-or-treating to name a [...]

We spent yesterday afternoon sitting around a backyard campfire with a group of friends from Aidan’s Junior Great Books club. They had been reading folktales and recently read the classic folktale “Stone Soup.” You know the one–about the pilgrim who comes to town and tells the hungry town folk that he can make soup-enough-for-all from [...]