In keeping with our family tradition of over two decades now, this weekend, being Memorial Weekend, was designated as the end-of-the-schoolyear-going-to-the-ranch. Normally the schedule would have been to leave on…
(NOTE: I am almost a month late posting this, quelle horreur! Please forgive - I am desperately trying to catch up!) With the end of the school year drawing close,…
The last month has been so full. Full of God-moments, full of family togetherness, full of memories, old and new. On September 23rd, mother was taken to the hospital with…
Our November celebrations this year were relatively quiet. Grandma and Grandpa Heidmann joined us for Thanksgiving day, and it was a playful time with giant celery sticks, great vats of…
True Confession: Sometimes I obsess. I've been this way as long as I can remember - my brain gets stuck on something and nothing will unstick it except time and…
I wish I could give you a moment-by-moment account of Geneva's spring recital this afternoon, but alas, I cannot. Anyone who has ever had children of widely varying ages knows…
Yesterday afternoon Geneva had the opportunity to perform in her first full-blown recital, and she did a fantastic job. She played 12 Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je maman" - by…
I grew up listening to my dad's favorite musicians, the Melody Four. In his beautiful tenor voice, he sang along with every song, on every record. One that I loved…
Sundays are invariably a day filled with potential. Potential mini-dramas, such as the child who wont eat anything you offer for breakfast, and therefore you can predict almost to the…
Today's passage is taken from the Lectionary reading for April 25, on the Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist. 1 Peter 5:8-10 The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) 8…