Holidays and Celebrations

  • Family Fun

    Yesterday we took the boys to the spring game on campus.  We spent forty dollars on hot dogs (when she told me the total I nearly fainted), and the boys dusted the pollen-covered…

  • I couldn’t stay another day longer

    Jesus said Mother I couldn’t stay another day longer Flies right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face While the angels are singin’ his praises in a blaze of glory Mary…

  • November

    As my decade blog-a-versary sails by, I feel like I should do some kind of thinkpiece about blogging (now somewhat passé, apparently), and what this means to me, and why I continue to…

  • Full Weekend

    There are those weekends when I feel that every blessed second was wasted, every opportunity for special family moments missed.  This was not one of those weekends!  We filled this one up.  Saturday…

  • Snippets of Summer

    To honor Lachlan and Grandfather, we decided to plant a tree in our yard.  The boys and I went to a garden center and after much perusing, selected a plum tree, along with a few…