Milestones

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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This morning I took Abby for her 18 month well check up at her pediatrician’s office. It was a relatively routine appointment. We got to find out her latest stats (height and weight), discussed our daily routines (eating, sleeping and playing) and talked about the milestones that she has hit so far (what she is […]

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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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