O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Mother of men, we believe with all the fervor of our faith in your trimphal Assumption into Heaven, body and soul, where you are acclaimed as Queen of all the choirs of Angels, and the countless multitude of saints. We unite with them in thanking and praising […]

Erin is losing teeth at an almost alarming rate here. I am not sure how she is managing to eat. The flute teacher is impressed that she is doing as well as she is considering her lack of teeth. She is very into the tooth fairy, not so much the fairy aspect as the money. […]

This is the motley bunch of men and boys that participated on the Father/Son campout this year. They go upstate to North South Lake in the Catskills and spend five days camping, hiking, fishing, swimming and praying. It is a retreat for the body and soul. The boys seem to love the “guy” time and […]

Katie proved to be quite the fisherman. she definitely caught the most fish and this was the largest. It wasn’t large enough to keep and we couldn’t return the poor thing to the lake because she took it all over showing it to everyone. It died for a good cause though, encouraging her love of […]

Spend a few minutes gazing at a sunset like this and you can see why Maine is called Vacationland. This picture was taken from our little porch on our first evening in Jackman. It is unspeakably beautiful. We had such a wonderful relaxing week. No phone, no cell phone, no internet and very little t.v.. […]