October at the Ranch
I had to go back and look at the calendar to figure out just when this weekender took place - our month has been, in a word, tumultuous, not to…
Labor Day 2022
Labor Day weekend was, for me and the kids, an epic ranch trip. We did so many things, and, more importantly, so many great things happened. The universe would, I…
El Morro National Monument
Over Labor Day weekend Paul took the older three kids up to the ranch and they took a little sight seeing adventure to the El Morro National Monument in New…
Desert Date
On Sunday afternoon, our daughter Megan gifted Paul and me with an afternoon to ourselves while she babysat her siblings. It was a wonderful blessing to have some extended time…
Celebrating Dad
The month of June, besides being Alyssa's birthday, is also the month we celebrate Dads. This dad deserves a whole month of celebration for all the ways he joyfully sacrifices…
Boys Weekend
This was the weekend Dad took the four youngest boys up to the ranch in Tom-Tom (the new truck). It turned out to be, as you might expect, a very…
Celebrating 27 years
It wasn't really an anniversary gift, but that old Toyota commuter car Paul had been driving was dangerously close to dying and we needed something new. Since we'd just paid…
Spring Break
For our family, Spring Break began after school on Friday, the 13th. It was a little different than the norm, in that the kids thought it was their spring break…
Christmas Riddles
As every Christmas approaches, I am once again driven mad by my husband's requirement that I stay within the budget for family gift giving, all the while going to extravagant…
Labor Day Weekend (5)
Sunday morning we were hoping to go to mass in St. Johns, then do a scenic drive, but that plan was abruptly curtailed when we discovered, late on Saturday, that…