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Dinner at Bucca Di Beppo

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Saturday night we went to Bucca Di Beppo for an early birthday dinner. Italian food is easily my favorite, and I love the way that Bucca serves everything family style. Veal Parmigiana was the number one item on my hit list, and Jake and I polished off [...]

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2009-The Year in Review

Now that 2009 is behind us, I thought I would take a few moments to review the year that just passed.
The year started with us off in Africa visiting Erin and her family in Tunisia. The trip began with us flying out of Philly early in the evening on Christmas Day and touching down in [...]

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Christmas Day 2009

After church, my family (Mom, Casey, Katie, and Alex) came over for Brunch. We had our traditional holiday fare of baked eggs, pork roll, bacon, and sticky buns (If Dr. Miller is reading this, I abstained from eating any of this food which is not so good for my blood pressure/cholesterol [...]

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Christmas Morning 2009

Santa came to the McMenamin house and the kids made out really well. We didn’t get out of bed until 7:30 ish and we hung around in our pj’s until it was time to head off to mass at 11:15. My mom came over as soon as we woke up to watch the [...]

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Back again, ugh?

Talk about neglecting my duties as a blogger, I’m noticing I haven’t posted anything since July 8th.  I guess it’s not too bad, that’s only 77 days without an update and I’m sure there isn’t too much that’s happened since then.
I really want to update this thing with regularity but I for one reason or [...]

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Crazy Vacation/Work/Camp Week

Things are a little odd this week with the McMenamin family all spread out.
For those who didn’t know, my mom rented a beach house in Ocean City, NJ for 6 weeks, beginning June 20th and running until August 1st.  We went down to the house that first weekend (Father’s Day) to open it [...]

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Mom’s Surgery

For those of you that don’t know, my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer right around Easter.  It was detected in the very early stages of development; based on our family history, my Mom went the radical route and opted for a double mastectomy. 

Her doctors have been great, and the whole process has moved so [...]

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Erin’s Back from Africa

Wednesday night marked Erin’s return from Africa.  She’s put on quite a few air miles over the past month coming home to check on Mom.  She was home over Mother’s Day, went back home for a few weeks, and she’s going to be staying at Mom’s house over the next few weeks helping Mom get [...]

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An Evening With the Giovinco’s

Saturday night we had a nice little cookout with my family (mom, sister Kate, brothers Jeff and Casey, as well as Jeff’s friend Rob).  It was one of the few occasions when almost all of us were able to get together.   
We had a crazy day running around with the kids, so we started a [...]

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Abby’s 11th Birthday

Abby’s birthday fell on a Tuesday night, and as has been the case with each birthday this year, we weren’t able to celebrate it on the day.  Abby had travel soccer tryouts, Jake had a baseball game, and Jean had school, so we ended up staging it over a few nights.
We started on Saturday night, [...]

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