We were driving by the airport on Sunday. I told the kids to wave to the planes and tell them we'd see them in two weeks. Gav does so and then says, "Hey dad - do people live in Oregon?" Yep, people live there. "Am I going to live there?" Yep, we all are. "For all of...

With only two weeks left before we head out, we're really having to buckle down and get ourselves organized. And that's raising a heck of a lot of questions for us. About things we'd never imagined we'd need to think about. This weekend, for instance, we discussed...

A highlight from our trip was adopting some new parenting tactics. First, the good. We realized that our kids are troopers. They can hang in the plane or car like no one else. Granted, they are now also vidiots (vid-e-ots: humans that excel at playing video games;...

Over the course of our four-day visit to the Portland area, we visited many homes. Some old, some new. Some nice, some not so nice. We didn't leave with a decision, and actually, didn't even really hone in on a particular area. The good news is that there are a lot of...

That wasn’t a wind gust you had on Friday, September 23, folks. It was Kenny breathing quite possibly the biggest sigh of relief since older brother discovered that Mikey really liked Life cereal. Judging by the gorgeousness I saw from the airplane alone, I can safely...

We got to put the stress of house selling aside for a few days. First ever visit to Portland for me and the kids - woooooo hoooooo! We connected in Chicago and had breakfast at Chili's. Who knew Chili's in the airport would serve breakfast? And yes, our...