Homecoming

May 20, 2011

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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A Play on Words

May 17, 2011

Last weekend Bob took me out to dinner and to see a play at the Steppenwolf Theatre here in Chicago. It was my Mother’s Day gift and our first date night, just the two of us, in awhile. I had wanted to see the play for some time, as my parents (who have a “subscription” to Steppenwolf, kind of like season tickets […]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Luck

May 16, 2011

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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Perfect Moment Monday: Weekend of Firsts

May 9, 2011

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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Hope, Fight, Walk

May 7, 2011

I won’t be sleeping in tomorrow and my family won’t be serving me breakfast in bed. But this isn’t because Bob and the kids aren’t thoughtful and wouldn’t do just about anything for me on the second Sunday in May every year. The reason is that I will be waking up early, along with about […]

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Bittersweet

May 6, 2011
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