Catching little pieces of time-making them yours, making them mine.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
What Mark should have gotten for Christmas...lol!
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
We will miss you, Ford Escape! You were a fun, comfortable ride, and saved me from putting 3000 miles on Tink...haha!
Monday, December 26, 2011
*sing along with the tune of 'These Are the People of WalMart'* These are the Spawnettes of Wawa, with their fevers, and jammie pants, and hoagies...
Delaware Memorial Bridge
Baby girl is sick. :-(
*sniff, sniff* Now it's time to say goodbye to all our ccompany...
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Manga and Copic markers. The girl child is happy!
Yup! Santa brought Ed and the boys an official Red Ryder this year! "Ed, you'll poke your eye out with that!"
It's snowing! Merry Christmas!
Waiting for Santa...
New book and jammies from the PJ Fairy.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merrimack's own version of Osborne lights. It even had a radio station we could tune in to!
Christmas Eve mass with the McCann Clan. Father Ed made the executive decision to sit downstairs...haha!
I wish there were sound effects to send along with this view!
Happy Christmas Eve morn from our home away from home in NH!
Friday, December 23, 2011
Reading girlies. :-)
This is your husband on Saki!
The sushi cat and her gang are happy campers!
Rut Roh! Saki twins!
Ramuné Soda Sisters!
Amazing lunch with dear friends!
Mid Hudson Bridge....beautiful!
NY sky and vineyards!
Over the river and through the woods, to Sushi goodness we go...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Friends, who just happen to have a photo bombing cat child behind them!
Friends. :-)
Welcome to the Palace de Pride!
A trip to New York/Pennsylvania would not be complete without a stop at the WalMart-o!
Grammy's last nursing job before she retired. She was so loved here!
The Delaware River and bridge to Matamoras, Pennsylvania, where Grammy worked.
Gorgeous drive!
The very historic, yet scary, town next to Sparrowbush.
Memories...sigh.
The reservoir at the top of our mountain. So peaceful!
Our old home. Our girlie learned to run off hills and scare her parents here!
Our old town in New York!
Breakfast of happiness!
Our view this morning. Welcome back to New York, Elves!
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Reppert family fun time!
Visiting with MomMom and PopPop in Philly. We totally surprised them...it was wonderful!
The dogwood tree which shelters her has grown so much since we've last visted. Seeing it live and grow fills my heart with comfort.
Happy HoHoHo, Auntie Renee. You truly were the wind beneath our wings.
A must while in New Jersey Pepperoni bread is amazing!
A Christmas tree for my Daddy and his mother, who I was named after. Merry Christmas, Poppy!
We sat at a table over here and toasted to our future. What wonderful memories!
They are open for lunch now, so we were able to take a peek inside. It's so much prettier inside!
20 years ago, a newly wedded couple celebrated here with friends and family at the most amazing reception ever. Do we look as old as this place does? Haha!
The apartment on the upper left is where I moved to when I was five. I spent my life there until Mark and I bought our first home! It looks so small!
The little post office/penny candy store that we used to walk to is still standing, but now it's a deli. We loved to fill those tiny brown paper bags up!
The house where I lived from one to five years old. We lived on the right side, and my sister, Renee, was born while we lived here.
Meet our little Ohana...Mare, Mark, and Renee. We spend our days attempting to cherish and treasure every single one of life's moments while living, loving, learning, and laughing together. Sometimes, when life allows us, we even visit our favorite place on earth-Walt Disney World.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."~Dr. Seuss
I’ve seen how disruptive it can be for parents to have specific dreams for their children. My job is to help my kids foster a joy for life and develop the tools to fulfill their own wishes. My wishes for them are very exact and, given that I won’t be there, I want to be clear: Kids, don’t try to figure out what I wanted you to become. I want you to become what you want to become. And I want you to feel as if I am there with you, whatever path you choose. ~Randy Pausch
Real, natural learning is in the living. It's in the observing, the questioning, the examining, the pondering, the analyzing, the watching, the reading, the DO-ing, the living, the breathing, the loving, the JOY. It's in the joy. ~Anne Ohman
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss