Today I ran in my 4th “Ridge Run” 5K race in our neighborhood. Prior to 5 years ago, in 2006, when I trained for and ran in my first 5K race, I had never run for pleasure or exercise before. Beyond that I didn’t understand or appreciate why anyone else would choose to do so. […]
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Cora Joy crawling around on Easter last month. A special welcome to those here for the first time and those returning for International Comment Leaving Week (ICLW), which officially begins tomorrow (Saturday, May 21)! I wrote this post during ICLW in February and it is a good place to start if you are not familiar with me or my […]
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Last Wednesday at the end of Sean’s Tae Kwon Do class he decided that he was ready to show one of his instructors (a.k.a. masters) the he had learned and could do “Basic One” (a routine that includes 20 movements in a specific order) and recite the “High White Belt Student Creed” all by himself. Each time […]
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This past weekend was filled with perfect moments including some very special “firsts” for me, my family and some of our neighborhood friends. As I shared about briefly in my last post, on Saturday I got to help out with the First Communion Mass at our parish for the first time as a catechist, after […]
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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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