Leaving Paris for Chicago was bad enough. A 4:30 am wakeup call so we could leave this beautiful place we’d spent weeks exploring? That’s just torturous. We had to be out of the hotel by 5:30 am to have enough time to check in for our flight, validate and process our VAT return, check our Read more
I’ve been so busy over the past two weeks. I wish I could say I was jetsetting to some exotic place (…or any place), or that I was spending every waking moment enjoying this warm extended fall we’re experiencing in Chicago, but the truth is not nearly as glamorous: I was at work. Between the Read more
We all need a little [Carnival] Sunshine in our lives, don’t we? It’s been a crazy week at work. A crazy month, really. Q4 is like my Olympics — I train all year for it, but there’s really no amount of stretching I can do to really prepare myself for the madness that ensues every Read more
Mom has had some pretty awesome birthdays over the past eleven years. She’s always somewhere on her birthday. One year, we were in Disneyland. Another year, we were in the Bahamas. Last year, we were in St. Lucia on her birthday. She laughs it off, usually posting some (unintentional) humble brag on Facebook about having Read more
Location is key when visiting Paris, even more so when you’ve never visited before. With three days in Paris planned for our big Europe trip, we knew that we needed to choose a good one. Paris hotels have a reputation for being on the small side, and my family does not travel light, so our Read more
