Scenes from Summer 2022
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Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed their summer, making memories and more with loved ones.
I was blessed with memorable moments with many a loved one since pressing pause on Grandma’s Briefs for the season.
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The good, the bad, and the fun of 2021
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It’s New Year’s Eve as I write this final post of 2021. With mere hours left before we collectively not only flip the calendar page to a new month but begin an entirely brand new calendar, I want to reflect on the good, bad, and fun of this past year.
Read MoreLike mother, like grandmother: On Benjamin turning three
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When my eldest daughter was born in 1982, I committed myself to diligently filling out her baby book regularly so as to not miss recording a single milestone or moment.
When my second daughter arrived in 1983, I continued to be fairly consistent in keeping track in her baby book, too.
Read MoreRockin' PawDad's party
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The recent weekend in which my family was all together—a relatively uncommon occurrence even in the best of times—featured not only Robert’s baptism, as I previously shared, but a milestone birthday celebration, too. That milestone being Jim’s sixtieth birthday.
The birthday festivities, organized primarily by Megan, revolved around a rockin’ theme as …
Read MoreTake me to church: Small steps toward normalcy plus baby Robert’s baptism
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Jim and I have attended Holy Cross Lutheran Church for about 35 years. Not every single Sunday during that time but certainly more often than not.
That all changed in March of 2020. For exactly one year we didn’t walk through the doors of church one single Sunday. Or any other day, including my pre-Covid monthly volunteer shift in the food pantry.
Thanks to Covid—and my immunocompromised status thanks to my MS medication—our church attendance was restricted to …
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