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Holy (Maundy) Thursday

Oh, I don’t know about you, but this week just feels different. Mostly in a good way. I have so many blog posts floating around in my noggin. So many crazy, wonderful, heart-changing things have happened in the last week. I find that as no coincidence. Next week. Next week. Today is all about the foot…

The 10-Year-Old Trip

Several years ago, we were inspired to take our children on a 10-year-old trip. Two families, from completely different paths of life, do something similar. They are families we greatly admire – they are Catholic, they are faithful and they are focused on raising children with integrity. To the Aitchison and Thoman families, thank you…

Who shook the snowglobe?

Sometimes you just need to laugh hysterically. Like laughing so hard you’re crying kind of laugh. When the kids first started getting sick back in early February, we were like “Oh man, a sick kiddo.” Then, 24 hours later, another child went down. Every weekend, we would get to Saturday, do a high-five after seeing…

Finance 101

A few weeks ago, Scott and I finally found some time to sit at the kitchen table, pull out the yellow tablet and have “the finance talk.” Those are fun, aren’t they? Actually, it was some homework for our counselor and to be quite honest, it was about 18 months overdue. By nature, Scott’s a…

Time Out

I think by now everyone knows that crazy is part of our daily vocabulary around here. We’re learning to embrace it. But, we’re also learning not to add to it. We made the not-so-difficult decision to avoid any after-school activities this spring. No baseball, no soccer, no dance, no nothing. We’ve always had the one-activity…