And today we’re back, safe and sound.
First we headed to St. Pete Beach to spend the 4th of July at Mom and Dad’s. It’s become an annual tradition now that the whole family gets together over that holiday to celebrate, not only the 4th, but Dad’s and my niece Emerald’s birthdays. We have [...]
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14 Jul
Summer Travel: T.G.I.O(VER)!
15 Jun
Father’s Day, This ‘n’ That
I’m not sure there are any fathers who read this blog, but I’ll say Happy Father’s Day anyway!
My husband’s birthday always falls within a few days of Father’s Day, which means I always have to put on my proverbial thinking cap to come up with gift ideas for him. This year, it’s been all about [...]
11 Jun
Boys on Horses, Etc.
We went to a birthday party this past Saturday at a local place called “The Painted Pony.” The kids all got to have horseback rides—they had a blast.
Here are a few pics from that. (I took liberties with my photo editing program on Levi’s and Charlie’s, but Urban told me he liked his [...]
2 Jun
Feeding the Ducks at Lake Ella
Yesterday after church, we went to Lake Ella to feed the ducks. You’re not “supposed” to—it’s supposedly bad for the ducks if people feed them—but everybody does it, and it’s fun for the kids.
The boys had a great time.
And we enjoyed watching the ducks (the babies are my favorite!).
This cormorant had no interest in [...]
27 May
Just Back from St. Pete
Hello, Friends!
Hope you had a lovely Memorial Day weekend. We’ve just returned from our trip to St. Pete Beach. We had a great time; the kids didn’t want to leave—and I wasn’t real keen on coming back home, either!
The best thing we did was swim. I also had fun visiting a new [...]
10 May
To All the Mothers Out There….
Have a beautiful and blessed Mother’s Day!
(Photo courtesy of Microsoft Clip Art Gallery.)
2 Apr
A (Birth)Day at St. George Island
Can I just tell you how much I love living in Florida?
It’s the beginning of April—April!, when there is still snow on the ground up north in Minnesota—and we spent yesterday at the beach!
It was Urban’s 7th birthday. He is on Spring Break right now (Spring Break—something we never had in our school district [...]
27 Mar
Little Surprises
Hope everyone had a lovely Easter. Me and mine had a wonderful weekend. On Saturday, the boys did an Easter egg hunt here at the house. Brian set the whole thing up. Inside each egg was a slip of paper with a number on it, and each number coincided with an [...]
23 Mar
Happy Easter!
A Happy and Blessed Easter, my friends.
Rejoice! He is Risen!
(Photo courtesy of Microsoft Clip Art Gallery.)
16 Mar
Palm Sunday Reflections
Today was Palm Sunday and the Sunday of Christ’s Passion. Passion, meaning, suffering (for love, I think). This is the day in the Church year when we read about Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey and being greeting with waving palm branches and shouts of “Hosanna!” A few paragraphs later, we [...]
