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Monday, January 16, 2012
Baby Stella!
Ok, this is way later than I planned but I am posting on our blog. As I sit in bed recovering post pardem! Baby Stella Maris joined our family on Jan 10 8:32 am! She is perfect! She weighed 8lbs 2 oz, way bigger than I thought! Stella Maris? It is Latin for Star of the sea as in Mary Star of the sea....we really wanted a Marin name. There is a big shrine to Stella Maris in Malta?... Anyway, the kids are thrilled and were every bit as impatient for her to come as we were!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
August 11, 2011 on the road home
So, it's all out of sequence, blog wise, from our last post. Fast forward from 2007 to the present.
I got a job in Detroit for 10 weeks or so (late June -late August) on a little show, and this time, Alicia and the kiddos all came out to stay with me for almost 6 weeks.
It was a little cramped in the hotel the whole time, since I never could find a short term rental like I had planned. But we got into a routine, such as it was, and we had a nice summer together. It was the first time since fall of 2009 that I have been working AND with the family at the same time..
The job is on the wind down now, and the summer is waning, and even Rosa is saying, "can we go home?" so it's time, and I'll be there in 2 weeks or so. (Hopefully with some sort of job lined up)
It's been fun, I was able to spend alot of time with the children, fooling around, swimming mostly. T
They're all brown as nuts, and all have made great strides in overcoming their unfamiliarity with water and swimming. 6 weeks ago, nobody would venture into the water without a life jacket and some complicated array of floaties and water toys, now, Sal and Rita are diving for pennies and swimming in the deepend, Marc has let go of the wall and will wade out chin deep, Rosa will get in her inflatable ring and get in the pool on her own and swim/ float all over the pool, even little Johnny will happily float around and hang on to the ring by himself. A bunch of little waterbugs. It's just spending time in the water. No amount of swim lessons will take the place of experience.
So they're on the road home. It's a testament to the toughness of my lovely wife to take this big trip alone ( she has had a teenaged rider to help with the kids each way). I'm sure thankful that she feels all of the trouble and work is worth it for us to be together while the kids are out of school.
I got a job in Detroit for 10 weeks or so (late June -late August) on a little show, and this time, Alicia and the kiddos all came out to stay with me for almost 6 weeks.
It was a little cramped in the hotel the whole time, since I never could find a short term rental like I had planned. But we got into a routine, such as it was, and we had a nice summer together. It was the first time since fall of 2009 that I have been working AND with the family at the same time..
The job is on the wind down now, and the summer is waning, and even Rosa is saying, "can we go home?" so it's time, and I'll be there in 2 weeks or so. (Hopefully with some sort of job lined up)
It's been fun, I was able to spend alot of time with the children, fooling around, swimming mostly. T
They're all brown as nuts, and all have made great strides in overcoming their unfamiliarity with water and swimming. 6 weeks ago, nobody would venture into the water without a life jacket and some complicated array of floaties and water toys, now, Sal and Rita are diving for pennies and swimming in the deepend, Marc has let go of the wall and will wade out chin deep, Rosa will get in her inflatable ring and get in the pool on her own and swim/ float all over the pool, even little Johnny will happily float around and hang on to the ring by himself. A bunch of little waterbugs. It's just spending time in the water. No amount of swim lessons will take the place of experience.
So they're on the road home. It's a testament to the toughness of my lovely wife to take this big trip alone ( she has had a teenaged rider to help with the kids each way). I'm sure thankful that she feels all of the trouble and work is worth it for us to be together while the kids are out of school.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Welcome to our Blog!
I finally got around to starting a blog to share with all you good people the fun and foibles we're having living up in Idaho!
As anyone who knows us knows already, in July 2007 we moved up to north Idaho to be near the town of Post Falls, a small town home to the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of the SSPX with it's excellent schools and good community. In November of that year we aquired a great piece of property close to town with 20.32 acres of forest and a cool little 1200 sf, 3br/1ba house. It's well built and insulated, a bit on the smallish side, but the kiddos are still smallish and thanks to the magical sweet organizational ninja by Alicia, we fit.
So the property, heretofore to be referred to by it's proper name "Rat Mountain" or "RT" when I'm on a roll, is a mostly forested, south facing hillside, about 5 miles west of Rathdrum, Idaho. There's a 2/3 mile driveway that looks to the outside world and the uninitiated, like a treacherous goat trail punching through the thicket, but to those brave or foolhardy enough to just take my advice and "just punch it and don't let up" the reward (after about 150 yards of bashing or sliding around up the steep beginning) is a beautiful winding road through towering ponderosa pines, douglas furs, and cedar trees leading straight up to the house. I love this drive.
Anyway, we'll post lots of pictures and write about stuff we're into on here and somewhat fill in the gaps of the last 4 years. more later.
As anyone who knows us knows already, in July 2007 we moved up to north Idaho to be near the town of Post Falls, a small town home to the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of the SSPX with it's excellent schools and good community. In November of that year we aquired a great piece of property close to town with 20.32 acres of forest and a cool little 1200 sf, 3br/1ba house. It's well built and insulated, a bit on the smallish side, but the kiddos are still smallish and thanks to the magical sweet organizational ninja by Alicia, we fit.
So the property, heretofore to be referred to by it's proper name "Rat Mountain" or "RT" when I'm on a roll, is a mostly forested, south facing hillside, about 5 miles west of Rathdrum, Idaho. There's a 2/3 mile driveway that looks to the outside world and the uninitiated, like a treacherous goat trail punching through the thicket, but to those brave or foolhardy enough to just take my advice and "just punch it and don't let up" the reward (after about 150 yards of bashing or sliding around up the steep beginning) is a beautiful winding road through towering ponderosa pines, douglas furs, and cedar trees leading straight up to the house. I love this drive.
Anyway, we'll post lots of pictures and write about stuff we're into on here and somewhat fill in the gaps of the last 4 years. more later.
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