Weekend To-Dos

Friday is here and I couldn't be more happy about it...

With the holidays just around the corner this is going to one of our last free weekends with very little on the agenda before Christmas.

It seems like things always get crazy around this time of year. Between travel and visitors, holiday parties and plans, calendars fill up quickly and I'm so looking forward to it. 

But in the meantime I'm looking forward to a lazy weekend filled with holiday shopping, sleeping in, a brunch date and hopefully a pedicure. 

Bring on the weekend!  

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Family Weekend

This past weekend was such a whirlwind. My family (and extended family) came to visit and they all stayed with me because I had the apartment to myself while Jered was out of town for a wedding. There were eight (!!) people staying in our two bedroom apartment—but we had such a fun time.

I hosted my first dinner party of more than four people on Friday night, we explored the city and I got to pretend I was a tourist for the day on an architecture tour and at the Chicago Bean and then my aunt had a beautiful brunch at her place on Sunday. It was lovely. I was sad to see them go.

Sisters and cousins...



This is the traffic jam I was caught in on the way home from the suburbs... Stand still for more than an hour. I think it's time to leave Chicago...