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Jean Got a Job, Sort Of?

Great news on the job front. Jean just found out that she got a long term sub position at East Vincent Elementary. Yahoo!
She’s taking over for a teacher (Candice) who’s going to be on maternity leave from the beginning of March through the end of the school year. Her due date is [...]

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Wynne Christmas Party

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Sunday started off somewhat lazily, with everyone lounging around in bed still trying to recover from a couple of late nights and over eating.  Jake had to serve at 11:15, so there was no rush to get everyone out of bed.  The only bummer was that Brett was [...]

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New Year’s Day 2010

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After getting in a little before 3, it’s easy to understand that our morning took a little time to get going.  Jean and I ended up going to 11:15 mass, where we met Jean’s parents and picked up Brett.
When we got home around 12:30, Abby was just starting to [...]

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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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Christmas Eve 2009

We spent our traditional Christmas Eve with Jean’s family over at Mike and Dot’s house.  All her brothers and sisters were there with family, so it was a full house (23 of us).

In previous years we’ve had seafood or roasts as the main fare, but this year we went with an Italian [...]

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Last Day of Teaching First Grade

Jean finished the first part of her student teaching today. She had a 7 week stint teaching first graders, which just wrapped up. The students threw her a little party and I know that she’s really sad to be going.
It was really cool watching her get excited about going off to school every [...]

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The Guinea Shepherd Appears Once More

I strolled home from work yesterday and I noticed there was a bit of a commotion right in front of the house.  Upon further review, I saw that our Guinea Pig Ginger was out of her cage and hiding in the bushes in front of our house.
This has happened a few times before, and it [...]

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Small Decisions That Shouldn’t Be Tough

Last night, Jake asked us if he was allowed to ride his bike to school this morning.  His classmates were planning to meet at McDonald’s to have breakfast at 7 am and then they were going to head to school by 7:40.
It’s only a 3 mile ride from the house to the school, so he [...]

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