Busy day full of errands. We headed to town at about 11 and made the trip to the tax man (I didn’t have to pay—YAY!), got the oil changed, went to dinner with Deb at Red Lobster (Cajun grouper—yum!), talked to the bank and the finance man about IRA’s, stopped at the library and the […]

It’s Wednesday, and Caitlan and I have been busy, busy, busy. We stayed the night with Mombo last night, and then I had a meeting with Jerusha to discuss the decision of whether to homeschool Justin for kindergarten. We headed for Kelley Ridge around noon with Greg Brown in the back seat. He doesn’t travel […]

Left Champaign after breakfast with Nancy. Highwayed to Louisville with KK listening to a Katherine Valentine book about a haunted rectory–we were expecting a light-hearted yarn about a rug-hooking group of Catholic women and got a scary devil story that neither of us would have picked. Linked up with Brendan and Maria at Lynn’s Paradise […]

We slept in later today. I got up and used the treadmill in the workout room. We probably would have used the pool and hot tub had I not forgotten a bathing suit. Breakfast was good again–waffles, bacon, and fresh grapefruit. We decided to make this a shopping day and check out the nearby malls. […]

We thought we were going to have a rainy Sunday, but it turned out to be cloudy but pleasant. since we anticipated rain, we ate an early breakfast of oatmeal, scrambled eggs, and sausage at the hotel and headed down the road toward Monticello, IL, to Allerton Gardens. This is one of the seven wonders […]

It’s Saturday, and after a grueling week at school, I’m off to visit Nancy. Caitlan is coming along, and I can’t wait to leave school behind for a little bit. In addition to fighting a cold last week, I had to get 30 fifth graders ready to put on a readers’ theatre presentation for our […]

I love you above all measure. Know that even though he has been gone 15 years, your dad loves you today as then, he prays for you daily, he watches over you in every way possible. I hope you prayed for and to him today. I hope you went to Mass and remembered him. If […]

I never travel without my box.. . . I love “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” It was the first operetta written for television. By Menotti in 1951. I don’t remember seeing it then of course, but not that many years after. And every year after that for many years. John and I used to go […]

I had dinner with my groupies at Elvira’s on Friday night. I was late so Deb ordered my house red and a plate of ravioli for me. Yum! On Saturday I was up early enough to get some laundry done before Brendan arrived. Time to change to the flannel sheets. Jim Brown helped us work […]