Bill always takes the boys’ birthdays off and this year was no exception. We just didn’t know when he blocked his schedule that the boys would be at camp. So with the free day ahead of us, Bill decided it would be the perfect time to see how long it would take for him to […]
To say the kids were eager to get (back) to camp would be an understatement. Though the gates don’t open until 1 pm, they insisted upon leaving at 8 am. I guess we should have wrapped up a minute faster at the pit stop because we pulled into camp behind the car that got the […]
Monday is Mason’s eleventh birthday and by his choice, he will be away at camp. He loves his birthday and told us, maybe a time or two, that he wanted to have a small early birthday celebration before he left and a larger one when he got back. We started his day with one of […]
We are fortunate that our good friends, Mel and MaryBeth, have offered to let us use their woodshop (aka Mel’s hobby barn) to cut and store the wood for Walker’s Eagle Project. Today was the first workday and there was a lot going on. Walker’s chair instructions came with cardboard templates. To preserve their integrity, […]
To earn the Saturday overnight between his camp sessions in July, Walker has had to really put his nose to the grindstone to finish, finish, finish his 4-H project. During Mason’s week of camp, he got the content written but it still needed to be displayed on his board. He has become quite adept at […]
My daily pillowcase challenge paid off. By the time Lent was finished, I had completed 50 pillowcases. Let the parade begin. I had 14 pillowcases on the first three lines and eight on the last one. {Line one} {Line two} {Different views of lines one and two} {Line three} {More views of lines one, two […]
{This series of photos is the result of my request to please smile nicely for the camera.} This year for Father’s Day we kept things really simple. Chinese food is one of Bill’s favorites, and coincidentally something he did often with his own dad, so it was especially fitting that the boys treat Bill to […]
Between now and Saturday night, if you are looking for us, please check the St. John the Baptist Summer Social in either the parking lot or the ring toss booth. Tonight we set up the Cub Scout run ring toss booth for the first shift. Meanwhile Walker worked his first shift parking cars. Bill […]
To move up in Boy Scouts and reach the highest rank of Eagle, a scout must serve in a leadership role in his troop for six months as a Life Scout, complete a total of 21 merit badges (13 required and 7 elective) and complete an Eagle Project. According to the Boy Scout of America […]
Becoming an altar server is a wonderful rite of passage. At St. John, incoming fifth graders are trained and then they serve a week’s worth of daily masses at 7 am. In this way, they garner experience to serve at weekend masses starting in the sixth grade. Father Tom is known for his sense of […]