In the spirit of spending time together, we decided to take Bill on a surprise field trip to celebrate his birthday. Walker was our driver and Bill rode shotgun. The hitch was that no one but me knew where we were going and I was sitting in the backseat! Walker navigated purely with an address […]
We never know what the weather will be like for the Sole Challenge but this year it was warm and sunny. Tonight Mason started with a short run along the river and then he competed on the middle school team in the challenge course. He had his flamingo ready before the race and later it […]
It’s been quite the week at St. John the Baptist. The first week of May is nationally designated as teacher appreciation week and our PTSA tries to make sure we spread the love lavishly upon our staff. While I have helped with it in the past, this year was my first at the helm. Each […]
It’s been a long time coming but the day finally arrived. Bill got a brand new car! It’s a 2018 Mazda 3 and he couldn’t be happier. For a long time now, Bill has wanted to trade in the SUV and return to car status. Moreover, he wanted to return to a manual transmission. He […]
In a collaboration between his language arts and religion classes, Mason was tasked to identify someone he considered to be a living saint. Saints are people who truly did more than the average person. They lived out their faith in all that they did. Some of them didn’t have an easy life, but they all […]
Bill’s nurse, Natasha, had her first child on November 22, 2017 and Mason has been asking to meet Charlotte ever since. Today we met us at Starbucks. Mason has always loved little babies and he took an especial liking to her. We brought Charlotte a few of our favorite books to add to her library […]