We kicked off summer officially today, with a short hike around Beaver Trail at Five Rivers Environmental Center and a picnic lunch. I thought that meant we ...
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It's the first day of summer, and that can only mean one thing: Time to make our annual summer list of "musts," our Beach Bucket List. Of course, it doesn't ...
My son, my oldest child, will graduate from our parish school in a few weeks and head to the public high school. The very large and intimidating (but ...
OK, so I disappeared for a few days without notice, without giving you a forwarding address, without even mentioning I was heading out of town. Sorry. My sister ...
Chiara turned three years old today. Hard to believe. That’s her up there in her princess outfit and tiara, looking very birthday girl-ish. This photo captures ...
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been blogging regularly -- as if I’m that important -- here’s the deal: It has been the craziest June ever. We seem to ...
So if you decided to leave home and join the circus, what would you be? Trapeze artist? Clown? Tiger Tamer? That was the question of the hour as we left the ...
Twenty years ago today my mother, Irene DeTurris, died of colon cancer. That reality still blows me away, even two decades after the fact. It has been the ...
I thought today was going to be a really good day, at least in a spiritual sense. I went to Morning Prayer and Mass at my parish, something I almost never do on ...
Well, we are just hours away from the official end of mid-winter vacation (I don’t count weekends), and I just have to say that this week had to be a monumental ...
Let me start by saying this: Crafts were made. Popsicle sticks were used. (If you didn’t read this morning’s post, you’re probably a little confused by ...
We’re having a snow day here in the upstate New York, and not even a really good snow day where you can go outside and build snow creatures and slide down ...
People are often intrigued by the fact that I write from home while caring for my children simultaneously. I think they have this romantic notion that I am in a ...