Archive for January, 2010

When you live with Mombo

Monday, January 11th, 2010

When you live with Mombo you have to: 1. Watch DAYS OF OUR LIVES 2. Or FOX NEWS 3. Or the Mass on EWTN at noon 4. Eat oatmeal with tumeric 5. Fix the toilet flusher 6. Pray before meals 7. Fill water bottles 8. Laugh a lot 9. Fuss at the dogs 10. Thank […]

Snow Days

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

We’ve been off school for four days now–Thursday through Sunday. On Thursday I was up getting ready when I heard it on the radio. Mombo got up, and because I don’t believe anything without at least one confirmation, we looked on tv and found out it was true. Then the phone call came for final […]

Skin Horse

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Happy Birthday, Chippy. I toasted Caitlan and Kyle for the both of us a few nights ago. You would have liked the toast since it was about the reading Joe Palmiotto did at our wedding. “The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his […]

The Aftermath

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

The next two days were a whirlwind. Thanks to Ian’s taxi service, we got Tim and Sara and John and Gail to the airport. It was so wonderful to have them all here. We had a lovely breakfast of broccoli quiche at Rocking Horse Manor before saying our good-byes. As people stopped by to see […]

Happy New Year and Reception!!

Friday, January 1st, 2010

After a beautiful wedding officiated over by Fr. Pat Stewart and during which the bride and groom pledged to be each others’ servants by washing each others’ feet, we had our pictures taken and then walked through the cold to the reception hall. Brendan and Ian were the mc’s for the evening. They introduced the […]