This past weekend I went back to Illinois to spend time with family. Ryan isn’t always able to join me for trips down South and this happened to be one of those solo trips for me. One of my nieces is celebrating a birthday this week and we celebrated last weekend. Before I got married, I had attended every single birthday party for all of my nieces and nephews. I knew after getting married and moving to Iowa that I would not always be able to attend those celebrations, but I try to when I can. Thankfully, technology makes it a little easier these days to be in “attendance”. Driving…