Holidays and Celebrations

  • Halloween 2016

    We had a really fun Halloween.  As promised, my parents came to stay with us the day before.  All Saints Day is traditionally a huge holiday here, meaning lots of people go to church…

  • Labor Day Weekend Recap

    Two of my sisters, one with her baby in tow, came to visit over Labor Day weekend and help me celebrate my birthday.  Both showed up on Thursday evening, one (plus her mini)…

  • Fourth Photo Dump

    Morning, all.  It’s July by the way – the cliche “This Year is Going So Fast” just gets realer and realer each year, does it not?  Someone once told me life is like…

  • Memorial Day Weekend

    We had a MDW that was action packed and also leisurely.  Since the kids have short attention spans, all of our “action” was relatively short, punctuated with long spans of lounging.  On Saturday,…

  • #wedding

    When Jack was just a baby, we took him to a convention of barbershop singers in Nashville, which my father helped coordinate as part of his job. All of my siblings attended– the…