Nathan’s Photolog of “Christmas In NJ” 1/3/09

Our last excursion for the holiday season was a holiday gathering with all of the relatives(Stephanie’s Mom’s family) that live down in New Jersey. We gave Nathan the task of capturing the experience in pictures for us. He took all of the pictures that follow. This was a great picture of Aunt Susan. If you look [...]

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Christmas 2008

The Christmas Holiday started for our family on Saturday the 20th when we traveled east to visit with Steve’s Mom and Dad.  We had a nice lunch and exchanged gifts.  After our visit we rendezvous”ed” with Aunt Susan.  The boys were off from school for the week and were spending the extra time with Aunt Susan [...]

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Blessing of Our Christmas Tree

We felt inspired to have our own blessing of our Christmas tree after a Christmas tree blessing was incorporated into our Sunday liturgy today. We appointed Nathan the role of officiating our family ceremony as he genuinely enjoys filling this role for our family. Above he guides us in prayer. After reading the prayer he had the [...]

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That’s a wrap!

At the end of December we said goodbye to an old friend…our ’98 Dodge Stratus, and donated the car (the proceeds of the auction) to the Spiritual Renewal Center of Syracuse.  We bought this gently used car just weeks before Sean was born almost 9 years ago, and then drove him home from the hospital in it.  Steve drove [...]

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Christmas morning!

We headed to Grandma and Grandpa’s on Christmas Eve.  We met at church for a lovely Christmas Eve Vigil Mass, before heading to a Christmas party at the home of some long time friends of the family.  We enjoyed good company and good food before heading to Grandma’s to settle in for a long winter’s nap.  We set [...]

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Christmas Parties and Celebrations

Sean’s class hosted a lovely Christmas luncheon at school on Thursday.  It was a nice treat for Mom and Dad to join Sean at school with his classmates and their parents, teachers, and principal, for lunch.      Thursday night was finally the Saint Francis – Saint Stephens Christmas Musical.  This favorite annual Christmas tradition was originally [...]

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Cub Scouts and Carolers

Tuesday night was the “Pack Meeting” for Pack 5.  This is the time when all the dens gather together to share what has been happening and to receive any awards, merit badges or recognitions the boys have been working on.  Nathan received a prize and a patch for selling popcorn, his Bobcat Badge and a “Quality [...]

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Anticipation

As we launch our family blog this weekend (12/15/07), we realize that we are all very much in the mode of anticipation.  We are eagerly awaiting Christmas, and are preparing our home and hearts for its arrival.   We are also anticipating the completion of Nathan’s room “makeover”.  This room desperately needed plaster and lathe wall repairs as well as painting.  [...]

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