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Category Archives: family
How To Survive A Road Trip With Children, and not kill them.
Pack the least needed items first: There is nothing worse than needing a diaper only to discover that you packed them 1st and they are buried all the way in the back. Hold off packing the most needed items till last, this way you know right where they are. Continue reading
Wasps are not tickley
So to start off, a little about my son Kevin. This Kid is so happy and such a jokester. He was born happy, I like to say when the doctor slapped him at birth he laughed. OK, so the other … Continue reading
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“Seamus” by Martin Harrington
Seamus is the man responsible for bringing just about our entire family to the United States so many years ago. He was the adventurer in the family, the one who had the motivation to get out out of economically strapped … Continue reading
Uncle Seamus, father, husband and word weaver.
Seamus Mc- Mahon often was struck with inspiration in the middle of the night. He would scribble his thoughts and fax them to his daughter in the morning. It was Adele Viger’s role to decipher the scrawl, type it and … Continue reading
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Treking the world, just a little sunburn!
Take a look at my neice’ Deirdre’s blog. She and her husband Brain (awsome guy) are treking through Guatemala… www.briananddeirdre.blogspot.com
The Ginger Ale Rules
It was at that moment that I discovered what kind of parent I wanted to be. My first impulse was to replay the parent tape that most of us grew up listening to: “Drink your ginger ale,” I almost said. “Don’t play with it.” But I didn’t say that. I didn’t say anything. I just watched my son blow into his ginger ale through a straw. And it was quite beautiful-my perfectly sun-browned son, the straw, the glass, and the bubbles in the pale-gold liquid. Continue reading
Aunt Josie has passed away.
I believe there are people that were put on this earth as direct conduits to God and mother Mary. We lost one of those people this week. Aunt Josie was the holiest person I have ever met. “Before … Continue reading
Who is this cat Buster?
Buster is the most loving cat we have ever met. When we arrived at Cos and Trish’s house he just let us pick him up and simply enjoyed the love. Don’t you wish you could be as content as … Continue reading
How Much Protection does one kid need?
Posted in family, Fun, Happyness
Tagged family, swimmies, swimming, toddler protection
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Driving to our cottage in Ireland
Packing six children (my brothers and sisters) and a few friends into the family Vauxhall Viva Estate (our car when we lived in Ireland) never seemed hard at the time. But just last week I had to refuse my sons … Continue reading