So how are we doing?

We’re all adjusting well. We haven’t blogged for a while—just busy.

Part of our busy-ness: We bought a double jogging stroller! Last night we took it out for the first family walk on the lakefront. We drove downtown and parked near Northerly Island and the Planetarium.

While on Lakeshore Drive we noticed a large number of people marching around in the Soldier Field and McCormick Place parking lots. Then we noticed lots of cardboard boxes. It was a rally to protest the refugee status of children around the world, with special attention to Darfur. One of my Ignatius runners, Jim Mumford, had mentioned the rally to me the day before. The kids are all going to sleep out overnight.

After we parked, we walked back toward the rally. We parked the stroller outside the gate and surveyed the crowd. I recognized an Ignatius student, a former runner Mike Mason, standing among the boxes, and then I saw Erin Casey, Molly Hogan, Caitlin Lanigan, and Danielle LoVallo—with a bunch of other Ignatius students. We called to them and Danielle and Erin came over to say hello to Luc and Maisie.

We wanted to say thank you to the students who spent the night at the protest. Luc and Maisie, of course, are in their own way displaced children.