I hope this year has brought you
health and happiness, and strength in hard times. As a good friend reminded me lately, we are
all together in the trenches, especially in these times we need more than ever
to unite in our vocations. Faith, family
putting our best foot forward and perseverance is the way.
This year as I’m sure each of us
shared its good times and not so good times.
Keep the good times good and pray through the bad times. For us, we had to deal with two miscarriages
which beyond devastating but we were also able to enjoy the children, have 2
little vacations, pursue our own business a little more, see my brother, nephew
and mother move close by and enjoy some pretty great milestones. So even though
we had shed many tears through the year we also loved and laughed much.
Me and Steve took a night out for
our Anniversary this year, it was very quiet and very nice. On the career front, I developed a blog for
Steve’s work and through word of mouth shared it with an email group of the
surrounding neighborhoods, he spent much of the summer working for himself and
it was greatly rewarding. We have work
scheduled for Spring to pick back up when the weather is permitting. Many times the kids helped him do the work,
schedules permitting so it most certainly is a family affair. You can see the blog if you like at
workbysteve.blogspot.com. I was able to work a little bit on my projects, but a
lot of my projects took a back burner as not enough hours in the day, but we
did get my new counter done and stair rail. I’m really hoping we can take steps
to building a living room in the very near future, we have maxed out our living
room in just about every way possible… we’ll have to leave that to God’s timing
mostly. Hehe.
Katelyn is doing well at
Metropolitan Community College and is in her last year. She has switched to General Studies with an
added certificate in Business Management.
She juggles her job at Jimmy Johns, with her studies and time at
home. She’s become quite fun loving,
loves to shop, and hopes one day to find that someone special. She turned 20 a few months ago.
Carolyn is also in her last year
of college and will earn Bachelor’s Degree as a Sign Language Interpreter next
winter. It’s very exciting to watch her
work, and we’ve had the opportunity to observe her sign the National Anthem for
College games, minor league ball clubs, etc… She has a friend she is
communicating with, but nothing serious as of yet, she juggles her school
schedule with her job at Olive Garden and homelife. She is really good with the kids, has her own
car so is helpful for pickup and drop-off times.
Jaclyn is my shocker of the year,
she is transferring next year to Automotive Mechanic College, but will finish
this year at the University, she is following what interests her. She has been dating a young Catholic man, and
they are very happy planning a future together, we couldn’t be happier with her
life choices so far. She works for
Carabas, stays very busy with school, work, homework and even doing homework
with Shaun.
Joseph just got his first job at
an Italian Pizzeria, his Archery team placed 2nd, breaking a 4 year
1st place streak so this year they are going to work very hard is my
guess. He is in the choir at school and likes a very nice young lady, Charlee
from a wonderful Catholic family. (Pretty awesome that me and her Mom are
really good friends) He spent the summer working for his dad and really likes
the ‘trades’ and is considering schooling in heating and air in the future.
Evelyn is now a teenager,
probably the most fun and happy teenager you ever met. Her best friend, Erynne is a perfect match
for her, they are so funny together, have been taking dance together and now
just joined the school choir together. I
couldn’t have picked a better friend for her myself…(plus I just love her whole
family)
Madelyn is at that age, not
little, not a teen. She enjoys well just
about everything. Life is her
canvas. She really likes crafts and reading
and she is hilarious. Her and Michael
sometimes are best buddies and other times…well lets just say, not best
buddies. Haha.
Michael learned to serve this
year and he loves being an altar boy. He
is super smart and talks all the time about all these different facts and
statistics, sometimes I have to remind myself to listen. Haha.
Rosie is my sweetie, very loving,
very silly. She received her 1st
Holy Communion this year and loves to read, we have to work a little bit in the
area of Math with her. She likes everyone and has the biggest and best smile
ever.
Tony is adorable, cute is natural
for him. He says the funnies things, he
started kindergarten. He and Rosie are
thrilled crazy that grandma is here, especially when she tells them stories
about when she was little, super wide eye and amazed. Haha. He loves his Uncle Joe along with all the
kids, but Uncle Joe is cool to him because he knows he acts and looks like
him.
Gwendalyn, my little baby that’s
not so little anymore. But if you ask
her, she says she’s the baby, we tell her she’s a toddler and she says, “…nope
I’m the baby” she talks all day long, my nephew Jeremy has recently learned to
talk “Gwendalyn” and can understand her toddler talk now. She talks in complete sentences but you gotta
listen at some of the words to hear it clearly.
She is not quite interested in toilet training, but loves to tell
everyone else what to do. She loves baby dolls and is loving “Christmas time” ~
Have a great New Year and many prayers for your health & happiness
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