• Family Day at the Art Institute

    We spent the middle of our day today at the Art Institute.  This is the second time we’ve been to Family Day there, and I must say, both times have been spectacular fun.  Today we made prints, sculpted with clay, created yarn collages and mosaics, folded paper flowers, made masks,…

  • Playing in the Creek

    We hadn’t been to the secret creek for a long time.  Last Wednesday morning Squirmy and I went for a little walk there while the big kidlets were off to school, and I decided to try to bring the others to play there in the afternoon before Wednesday evening church…