Of Palm Sunday and Anniversaries

I hope all my readers had as joyously reverent a Palm Sunday as we experienced today. Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, as it is called, is always a Pontifical…
Read moreOver the course of the last week, most of the family (everyone except Jacob, I think) got a chance to see the extravagantly sumptuous new Kenneth Branagh movie, Cinderella, and by…
Read moreOur family gained a new canine member recently: a six-week-old Mastiff-Lab mix. He is endlessly mischievous, and much loved already by everyone, including his step-mother, Gwinnie. After much discussion about…
Read more…and Nettie Embarks on a Mission to Take the Vastiest Number of Photos in the History of Ranch Trips. Ever. That’s the nutshell version. If you really only want to see the pics,…
Read moreIt is important to note passages in the life of our family. Last week we faced a bitter-sweet passage, the ending to our first chapter as a foster family, when we…
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Read moreIt has been an absolutely lovely week of vacation around here during Vicki’s visit. Sleeping in, no school (meaning lots of computer play time for kids), jaunts around town for…
Read moreWednesday brought crystal blue skies for the first time since Vicki arrived, and I didn’t want to waste the chance to sight-see on such a pretty day, so even though…
Read moreYes. We do call her that. It works. 😀 Sunday was another cloudy and beautiful day, and what made it even more beautiful was the arrival on our doorstep of…
Read moreSaturday was a perfect day for a photo-walk: cool, and cloudy to the point of threatening. Couldn’t be more beautiful, in my books! 🙂 Normally we do these photo walks…
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