Family

It’s my 4th Blogoversary! I have come a long way since my first entry on April 10, 2007. If I were President of the United States, I would have just completed my first term. I have now been blogging for as many years as I was in high school and a little less time then I was in […]

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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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T.G.I.F.! It’s just been one of those of weeks… Towards the end of last week Sean came down with a fever, followed by a brief bout with the stomach flu. He got better just in time for Abby and I to catch bad chest colds with coughs and runny noses over the weekend. It has […]

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I took this picture last year on March 17 of Sean, Abby and my feet in our matching shamrock socks. We wear them every year on and around St. Patrick’s Day. We started this shamrock sock tradition before Sean was born. When I was pregnant with him in 2003 the only clothing item that I […]

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I started writing this post sometime last Fall and then, as it often does, time got away from me. I decided to come back and finish it this week when I realized that our house has been on the market now for over 5 months. These recent months have been a roller coaster ride getting […]

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Recently Abby and I were driving to pick up Sean from one of his after school programs when “100 Years” by Five for Fighting came on the radio. I have really liked that song ever since I first heard it years ago and found myself connecting again with the various ages in the verses as […]

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