Its coming.

A proper Chicago post - with pictures!! - is coming...I promise! As soon as I remember to bring my hard drive home from work. The hard drive that all of my photos are located on. Go me.

Until then, a quick update...on not much. Days are hot and long...I am slowing down a bit at work and enjoying my evenings at home. Chad has been working quite a bit so we don't get to spend as much time together as I would like. I get all of next week off from work and Chad only gets Wednesday so I am making plans to travel with my parents again. I will head to Atlanta for my sister and Frannie's intentionally belated reception for their wedding in March and then travel on to Columbus with my parents. I believe we will head to Biloxi for a few days - table games for dad and tooling around town and sitting by the pool for mom and I. I have discovered - in my old age, ahem - that my parents are much cooler. Better conversations, funnier stories, time spent with them more treasured than it ever has in the past. I am no longer embarrassed by them as I was in middle school and high school but instead, thrilled to get their undivided attention for a few days. I am really looking forward to a week off work but more than that, absolutely excited about spending a few days with my folks.