noel

Merry Christmas from ours to yours....this year in Massachusettes with snow, lot's of it, and lot's of each other as a family....

always wanted to be Bilbo...

No, those side burns are not real! Bilbo, I am, as I create a Tolkien experience for my seventeen 6th graders at Cambridge School. "There's more to you than you know," says me to them in honor of Gandolf and his weak-kneed student.

I'm trying to believe these words for those of us growing older as I try to be supermom and super teacher this year. It's all privilege and pleasure, just a bit busy...sipping, at times, from a fire hydrant. Stephan's still changing the world through World Relief. I'm just trying to change one kid at a time.

Love and miss you, as always.

green fields....

Ireland...in the footsteps of Patrick, Brendan, and Beamish  (except on bikes!) with two wonderful, wonderful friends....

communion first...

It was a first for Joshua this summer...his first communion at St. Brendan's in the City, our Washington DC church home.

peaks and valleys...