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On Saturday, we all drove to St. Louis so that we could leave Jack to spend a week with his grandparents.  We stuck around, went for a swim, had dinner and spent the night.  The next day, after Dan and I took on a grueling 9-mile run in 91% humidity, attended mass and had lunch, [...]

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This morning, the WHOLE family went fishing. Dan and Jack ran out last night to get a license and some needed supplies.  Then they spent the evening cutting up some things to use as bait (in case the worms didn’t work). After getting our runs in, we loaded up the kids and headed over to [...]

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How many kids I have?  Seems like it sometimes, but no. My address?  Nope. The number of Diet Dr. Peppers I consume daily?  Close, but no. Number of Facebook friends?  No way. Books I’ve read this year?  Possible, but no. 2,490 MILES.  Traveled over Spring Break.  Via van.  With kids. Last summer, we traveled to [...]

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I hate to give away my age, but last weekend I celebrated a birthday.  A significant one. To double ease the pain, my dear husband flew our entire family out to Utah so we could celebrate by attending his brother’s wedding.  Nothing like getting someone else to pay for the party!  It seems to be [...]

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Wow.  A LOT has gone on in the last week! Too much for me to contemplate at this late hour.  You’ll have to wait until tomorrow.  Sorry.

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I didn’t tell anyone (okay… except for my sister Caroline) that we were going to go camping over the long weekend.  On the one hand, I guess it would have been nice to have people praying for us, but on the other, I was so worried about how things would go, I figured if I [...]

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Truly.  It is.  What are the chances? No, I didn’t win the lottery.  Dammit.  (Gotta buy a ticket to win.) On Saturday night, we participated in a school dodge-ball tournament.  (No, that’s not the unbelievable part, although I can see why you might think so.)  Dan actually played on a team.  I spectated and drank [...]

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So.  Last week, my sister gathered up her courage, her kids and her husband and came for a visit.  I hadn’t seen her since my brother’s wedding over a year ago.  Just she and her daughter were able to come then.  I think before that it was a few years earlier in California for 48 [...]

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Well, in case you didn’t know it, we just returned from a trip to Salt Lake City.  Yes, we took the WHOLE family.  Yes, we DROVE. 10 Days.  3,703 miles. We survived.  ALL of us.  And, we had fun!!!  Seriously.  I only considered homicide once.  In the hotel in North Platte, NE.  It was our [...]

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With all the recent body fluid disasters, I haven’t had the chance to post the pics from our last visit to Missouri.  We had a good time introducing Andrew to everyone, watching fireworks and swimming.  Andrew got his first pool experience, which wore him out, as you can see.

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