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Today we put our boy on the plane back to Florida for a few days rest and lawn mowing before he heads to the Keys with his girlfriend’s family. Tough life, right? However, that also marks the downward slide of this amazing vacation. And that’s ok. It’s been phenomenal. A favorite compliment to us this
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Yesterday, we had a pretty chill-day. It’s actually incredibly difficult to force down-time when there is so much to see and do, but mother nature helped us out with a rainy start and finish to our day. Although we did manage to sneak in a walk through town and a quick walk on the river
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I totally get the whole snowbird concept now. I also realize that I could ABSOLUTELY be a snowbird. mid-July with windows open, yoga pants on and 2nd cup of coffee on the front porch with my dog mauling a tennis ball—I’m in. With 3 of our 4 kids we left at 1 a.m. after working
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In the wake of last week’s tragedies and the terrifying level of unrest and chaos that has followed, I’ve just been processing and re-processing the events but mostly just in the way we all respond. I’ve seen several friends just step away from social media to get a break from all the negativity and turmoil.
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That moment when you really, REALLY need to get in gear to start packing and list-making and hotel reservation making for the upcoming vacation that starts in 3 days and you are just paralyzed. Or under water. Moving, but ever so slowly and hoping for momentum to build to get the train started. But the
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Summer is here! Actually we are a full 12 days into summer here in our little corner of the world. And, we have yet to really hit any kind of routine and that’s OK. It’s summer. That’s the beauty of it! For Mama and Papa, summer looks like this: wake up in the a.m. have
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We have just come off of graduation season. And we have made it through our first of 4 (God willing!) in the next few years. I have to tell you. It did not look like I thought it would. While I struggled with this in the beginning, as I processed it and opened my eyes
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Sunday morning, I was relaxing before Mass and trolling Facebook, gram, news, checking email to keep me sane until other people were ready to go. As I scanned through I saw news about a shooting at a club in Orlando. Again. Another shooting. I remind myself to stop checking the news because it is seriously
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I’m truly over hearing about Brock and his foolish speaking father. I’m probably about to do an unpopular post here, but first do not misunderstand me: that kid was wrong. that dad was wrong. that judge was wrong. this entire thing is so. so. so. wrong. The only thing that is good is
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Ok, so I am having a mid-life blog crisis and can’t decide which one I’ll keep…..this one gets more traffic, so I am thinking that for the rare moment these days that I actually DO blog, this might be it. I’ll deal with that later! For now, I just wanted to share some of our
making the trek
Trekking through life: Faith, family, friends and a whole lot of coffee!
making the trek 