What an adventure the last few days have been for all of us! We never dreamed as we started out our week that we’d be spending Monday night at the Emergency Room. But, that’s where we were for many hours, waiting for some nice nurses to wrap up Jackson’s poor, little fractured tibia. The fun…

we traveled up to allentown for a mid-week vacation to attend colin’s confirmation mass last week. according to official estimates, 149 teens were confirmed that day, including colin. but we lost count after 20. seriously. that was a lot of kids! we were so happy to be there, though, and so proud to witness colin’s…

after watching his mom and dad reading the paper every morning for months, jackson decided to get into the act today. he pulled up a chair, grabbed the classifieds, and proceeded to tell us all about the trucks and cars for sale. “truck! truck! truck!” was all we heard, all morning long. later, jackson and…

we spent a chocolate-covered saturday with the barainyaks in hershey, pa., once again. after lunch at fuddruckers, we headed over to chocolate world to ride “the ride” and eat our share of free chocolate! jackson had a blast, chasing after his cousins and eating all the sweets. what he did not like were the plush,…

despite what all the pundits said months ago, we maryland voters were going to matter after all in this crazy presidential race! so, on a snowy tuesday morning, we loaded jackson into the stroller, suited him and brooks up in their sweaters and their boots, and walked to our polling place, just a few blocks…