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I don’t know if it was the wine or Sprite or almondy joy chocolate chip cookies…but as I sat around the table last night with some of my favorite people on this earth…I got little butterflies in my stomach.  Not only because I got to spend an evening laughing and talking about anything and everything. […]

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Chicago weather is not for the faint of heart.  We spend all winter bundled up indoors praying for the day the sunshine reappears.  And then usually around June it decides to maybe peek it’s head out.  Spring?? No…we don’t get spring.  Then right as you think summer is here…it gets cold again.  And rains.  And […]

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The speeches were wrapping up and the entire room had a smile on their face.  Because when you’re around Jaime and Flo…it’s hard not to.  Jaime’s dad took the microphone to say one last thing.  He paused for a minute…gathering himself trying to fight the tears that were welling up in his eyes.  Of course […]

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I’m one of those people with the mind set…if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.  I get stuck in my ways and it takes a LOT to get me out of them.  I figure something out my own way and I don’t want to change it for the life of me.  Maybe it’s laziness.  Or stubbornness  […]

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