Chicago, Another visitor, & Reflecting

Mike's mom came for a visit for a week and went back home this past Saturday. While she was here she watched the kids for a bit and Mike and I went to Chicago for a couple of days. Most of the trip was good...some of it wasn't. We have some friends who live in Indiana who drove up the day we got there to spend the day with us. They're friends from high school. My buddy's name is Nicole...I'd not seen her in over 3 years and was really excited that I got to spend some time with her. I really wish they could've stayed the second day too. While we were there, we had lunch at Dave & Buster's, went to Hershey's Chicago for some sweet treats, took the water taxi to the Sears Tower, went up in to the Sears Tower Skydeck and stomped around on the new glass ledge up top, ate yummy Chicago style pizza, went to the Ghiradelli chocolate shop for sundaes, went to the Shedd Aquarium, went to Navy Pier for the night and took a ride on the ginormous ferris wheel, walked through Millennium Park, went over to Buckingham Fountain, and went to Garrett's Popcorn shop and got some yummy cheese corn that everyone raves about. Very good, by the way. Here are a few of my favorite pics....















I've really been feeling kind of blah lately. Kind of useless I guess. Or like I'm not good enough. Seems as though I'm the only stay at home mom around here. Never in the past have I've ever thought it's not enough until the past few months. Seems as though I feel like everyone thinks that I need to be working. Which has got me thinking that maybe I should. Then at least maybe I'd feel like I have some kind of identity because quite honestly, I've been secretly feeling like a caged up rabbit. Cassie has pneumonia again too, which isn't helping my blah-ness too terribly much.