Family

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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Happy 3rd Heavenly Birthday Molly Marie! Where does the time go? It is hard for me to grasp that today we will be releasing three balloons into the sky when we visit your grave, light a candle and sing happy birthday to our forever baby girl. It has been another incredible and very busy year […]

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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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