When we were in Austria for dh to work on his Masters in Theology … I was really, really healthy because we had to walk everywhere … to the village a half-mile away to shop daily, to the library a half-dozen blocks away, to the train station a mile or so outside of town. We walked everywhere and I was really, really healthy. Really, really healthy for a 40+ year old.

Just two months after I turned 41, our youngest, Hot Rod, was born.

Mary’s little lamb:

Our Austrian souvenir:

Blessed by newly canonized Saint John Paul the Great:

That little guy turned 12! Today. 12!

Now, he’s a soccer-playing dynamo who keeps us all hopping. We love you JP and can’t wait to see what God has in store for you …