Papa Ronnie, Gigi and Gracie were so kind to be at our home with our kids for a whole week while we were house and school hunting in Italy.  Thank you! You (Papa in particular) seemed completely destroyed by our daily life. . . We’re SORRY!  Six kids is a lot, eh!?    It was…

Our Catholic community here in Dallas and Irving had a Mighty Is Her Call retreat at Holy Family Catholic Church.  What a blessed morning!  Over 90 moms attended.  It was the first Mighty Is Her Call retreat I did not plan: our Mighty team did a top notch job!  The speakers were amazing. The Mass…

Ron and I are having quite a time in Italy!  We have worked around the clock, checking out schools and housing possibilities.  We have braved dozens of housing brokers in Italian, asking about rent, square footage (meterage?), plumbing, taxes, internet access and how reliable their furnaces are, all in our self-learned italian.  I must say…

Here are Ron and I at the airport in Philadelphia. It’s hard to believe that today we have been married 20 years.  And we are on our way to Rome, to look for housing and schools for our kids.  Can you believe it?  What an amazing way to spend one’s 20th anniversary!  The travels dates…