We have lived in our house for over a year now. I love it. Perfect fit, great neighborhood, and more importantly, the kids love it here. However, there is a small part of me that misses that semi-city life we used to have. Is this normal? All you fellow newly suburbanites out there, do you share my struggle? There are plenty of fun things to do here. None of which are walking distance though. We have to load up the van and go. Yeaaaahhhh, the minivan. When we moved to suburbia, we went all in! In our old neighborhood, which was on the very outskirts of Chicago, they were starting to build more restaurants down the street. And, ugh, I recently went back and saw they put in a fricken drive-thru Starbucks like three minutes away from our old place. The nerve! Do you know what I would have given for that caffeine rescue being only a little stroller stroll away? I digress. Before we moved, we made a list of all the local places we wanted to visit one last time. It was a long list. We tried to hit up all our faves, but we couldn’t get to …

Oct. 1, 2021, 12:03 p.m.

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