You're probably not wondering, but I'm going to share anyway.I cleaned out the freezer and took a quick inventory of all the stored breastmilk I have from all of Luke's NPO days, i.e. the days he couldn't eat.  Here are four important numbers:  4, 40, 150 and 440.4 gallons of milk pumped40 days Luke didn't eat a single thing150 oz. of milk I'll be donating to the Austin Milk Bank440 pumping sessionsWow.  That's just nuts.  Oh, and here's a photo of our ...

Boy howdy.  After you read the next paragraph, you'll know why you haven't heard from me for five days...Last Tuesday Clare got a fever, congestion, runny nose and a hacky cough, which she then ever-so-politely "shared" with Luke who came down with the same symptoms on Wednesday.  Our pedi is off on Thursday, so Friday morning I hauled them both to the doctor.  Verdict?  Nasty, icky viral infection for Clare (we're now on day 6 of fevers) and the same virus ...

Today is a big day for Scott.  His new boss "officially" starts.  Bishop Joe Vasquez, fifth bishop of the Diocese of Austin, will begin his tenure at 3pm today.Little anxious.  Little excited.I pray that the bishop is as supportive of Scott's efforts in stewardship and development as Bishop Aymond. Oh, and if you're wondering...no, I'm not attending the installation Mass.  There's an important reason that I'll make a blog post about someday :-)It's funny, because before Scott worked for the church ...

"I'm a baniac, baniac..."Clare, wearing John Paul's blue headband doing her best impression of Flashdance's Maniac.  My goodness that girl cracks me up."I still have my sassy haircut."Anna-Laura, to just about anyone who will listen.  And yes, sweetheart, it's still sassy."Mom, Fr. Dean's at the door!"Will, to me at 0715 this morning!!  I thought he was kidding until I went to the door and saw him standing there.  He had just finished Mass at the Sister's convent and was in ...

Hey, we lived in the midwest and we know snow.  Like big huge piles and inches and inches of snow.  Central Texas can not boast of that kind of snow.  But we did get some of those beautiful, fat flakes on Tuesday.  It was glorious!My kids thought they hit a home run.  They came in from school and went right back out to build their snowmen.  Luke and I sat in the front room, drinking hot chocolate watching them have ...