Sometimes my 20-month-old and I go to breakfast, just the two of us, for a little early morning date. He insists on leaving the tip. But I never let him.
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The experts say date night with your spouse is all about novelty. How about glass-blowing?
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Every Friday, the same thing. It's like my life is going to pass me by while I am filtering the cream cheese out of my crab rangoon.
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No matter how much you tell yourself it doesn't matter, when anything but an acceptance letter arrives, your first desperate thought is: What now?
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It's funny how you never give something a second thought - until you do. Enter my son, and a conversation about trash cans.
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Chicago's northwest side is the wallflower of the urban parent world: unassuming and not necessarily dressed to impress, but totally cool in its own right.
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Follow along as 12 city parents report in with news and notes from across Chicago's neighborhoods.
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Get to know Lindsay, a Ukie-Villager, former nerd and "momming worker" (what's that you say?)
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Meet Amy, a Logan Square/Bucktowner, CPS world languages teacher, and mom to two kids nine years apart.
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Get to know Heather, an Uptown mom with two kids, a rented apartment and a global philosophy.
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