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How do you celebrate 13 years of marriage?

Between soccer, Sunday School, and learning all the states in the U.S., we don’t have much free weekend time.

As I was walking our boys toward the school entrance yesterday morning, Leo ran on ahead to get inside. Daniel stayed back with me, but when we were still a distance from the school, he said, “Can you walk back to the car now?”

It’s not often I get one-on-one time with one of my nieces or nephews, and I love learning more about each of them.

At the end of each school day, you might think that our children happily share every detail about recess, math class, lunch, what their teacher told them, and how many friends they made.

Today, you see, was not just the first day of the school year. It was the first day of a school year at a new school.

Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend a gathering of Catholic women bloggers in Front Royal, Va. We drove down as a family of four, and my husband and our boys went off to explore Skyline Drive and the Skyline Caverns during the day.

My sons and I have been staycationing this week as we get ready for the school year to begin.