Heather's Recipes

My father-in-law took Emma to the DuPage County Fair last night. It's become a bit of a tradition with him to take my kids, one at a ti...

About a half hour ago I chewed out the contractor we hired to fix a myriad of problems on our house before the new owners move in. Or, as m...

Seven years ago today I became a mom for the first time. It was on this day in 1999, at 10:01 PM, that I gave birth to the most beautiful a...

Okay, there wasn't really a melee, but it was all I could think of as I snapped this picture of Emma and her classmates during class wat...

Yet another entry of my juvenile writing, from around 1984 as far as I can tell. The assignment was this: You have the power to change the ...

I can only assume this was an assignment from about the sixth grade. I know I would have never insulted such an important person with this ...

Ian played his last T-ball game of the season yesterday on his community center league team and it was great. My mom, sister, and three nie...

My first baby, Ian, who is almost now seven years old, is growing amazingly fast. Despite his fiery temper, he has one of the most tender h...

I am almost embarrassed to write about this, but I can't help the ecstatic feeling I have every time I look at my bathtub and see it...

You have to see it to believe it.

No parent should be without this book that I found at the library last month. It is called "Fussbusters On The Go" by Carol Baick...

We were introduced to my sister-in-law's and brother-in-law's new puppy, Dempsey, on the Fourth of July at my father-in-law's ho...

Happy Fourth of July from the McKillip's!

While cleaning out the crawl space to ready ourselves for our big move at the end of the month, I found several papers I wrote while in elem...

My father-in-law, Brian, came over today to help Brendan and I clean out our crawl space and basement for the radon reduction people to come...

I received a forwarded e-mail from my mother-in-law today and was a little surprised. I rarely receive e-mails from her, we usually use the...

We've had several funny conversations with our kids this past week. Here are two that stand out and still make us giggle. At dinner one...

We were driving to Blackberry Farm today when I mentioned to Ian that it would be the Fourth of July in about two weeks. He loves Independe...

Now that Ian is out of school and I have all three kids home all day everyday for the summer, we've been driving around Aurora a lot mor...

My almost seven year old son draws pictures of the crucifixion and discusses breaking bread over dinner. My youngest daughter, Zoe, who is ...