Decisions

Sean and Abby posing for a photo last week. I am taking a short break from packing (only two more days until our big move) to share a recent Sibling Snippet. One night last week during dinner, which happened to be one of Sean’s favorites (Spaghetti with Italian Sausage), out of nowhere Sean says to […]

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I started writing this blog entry this morning, before a short and very strong wind and rain storm blew through Chicago. Within about 10 minutes the crazy weather was over and we had lost power. As it turned out our electricity would not be restored for another 9 hours!  To say that it was a challenging […]

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Two weeks from today, if all goes well (dare I say, “as planned”), we will be closing on our current house and our new home, followed soon after by beginning the process of moving. Since we returned from our wonderful vacation with my side of our family to Hilton Head Island, SC (which I plan […]

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Last week I attended a meeting for a women’s retreat planning team that I am serving on at our parish. The retreat will be this fall and I am really looking forward to both the experience of going through formation with my fellow team members and the opportunity to “give” the retreat this fall to […]

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Greetings and welcome to this stop on the A Gift of Time Book Tour! This is my third time participating in a book tour and my first time hosting one. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love and Life from Scratch. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online […]

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Update: Unfortunately, no one signed up to participate in this Inconceivable book tour. I appreciate what a busy time of year it is and that many of you who might be interested may not have found time to read the book and/or consider discussion questions about it. In lieu of the tour, I have written a review […]

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