Hi! My name is Luke and this is a blog about my family and I: parenting, friends, weekend trips, and some challenging things we navigate as well.
This blog is an archive for my own memories: “These are the good years” I often say. Some day things will change, but for now, things are pretty good, and I keep this blog as a memory of that.
Marriage is great, and being a dad is funny and hard, that’s why the tag for this blog is “proud supporters of fun and failures”, because if you can’t laugh at yourself, what’s the point?
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Rosie’s Story
This story has been shared, but with Rosie’s birthday coming up this week, it is a story worth remembering and I hope this can help speak to others going through infertility issues, or issues with their faith, as well. Taylor and I were living in Harrisonburg, VA at the time. We lived in 3 places…
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Cici is 70, Grandma Becky’s bday, and more about Facebook
Heyyyyoooooo!I know I havent been on here much recently, but I will try and keep it going. As mentioned in last week’s post, there was just TOO MUCH going on, that it was hard to get it all into one blog post. So this is part II. Cici’s 70th bash We had a ton of…
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Mercy Baptized, and Happy Halloween!
It has been busy around here- so busy, that this post needs to be broken into two- there just isnt enough space to include CiCi’s birthday, so that will have to come next week. Mercy was Baptized on Oct 30th. It was a very special day. Mercy recently turned two, and as Taylor said, this…
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Piles of leaves, publicly embarrassed, and (Luke’s) picks
Since the weekends tend to be so busy with things like picking up sticks, we went and celebrated my mother-in-law’s birthday on Wednesday this week- she is doing pretty good to turn something something years old! We did dinner at Cugino Forno, and it was awesome. More leaves, and more to come. We worked together…
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Hurricanes, house renos, and how much!?!
Ian roared through last weekend. Fort Myers was obliterated, but that doesnt mean that storm ran out of energy by the time it got to our part of the state. The weather report made it seem like it could have beena pretty bad situation- Rosie’s school was cancelled, and Mercy’s daycare was closed early at…
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Happy Birthday Mercy!
Our sweet girl turned two this weekend. Taylor likes to make it fun for the girls when they wake up by decorating their rooms and surprising them- so here we are waking up the birthday girl on Saturday morning: It was a team effort: though there aren’t any pictures of it, Ted helped out by…
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Weekend at Cicis, Big Love, and dirty desks
The first year of our marriage, Taylor and I lived in a big college house in Virginia that was a mix of graduate students/young professionals. Taylor lived in the house the year before, and rent would be dirt-cheap (to match our income at the time), for the complete basement of the house- with its own…
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Lumberjacks, lazy afternoon, let’s go app!
There is this pile of wood that has been sitting in the back of our yard since we moved in. One of our requests when buying the house was to remove this very large, dead tree that was in the back of our property, but the seller’s response was that the tree could be chopped…
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Second grade, sweet Sadie, and seclusion
Rosie is off to second grade! Summer was great in so many ways- we really had fun. However, I love routine (I never thought I would say that?), and getting Rosie back to school with our morning walk to school has been wonderful. She is at a little elementary school just a few blocks away,…
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Weddings and well-wishers
Scott (Jonathan) Phillips finally got married, and Taylor and I were so excited to celebrate his big day. The wedding was in the middle of August, so we also decided to turn it into an extra anniversary trip, and stay an extra day in Boston on Sunday night after the wedding. The wedding Taylor and…
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Amusement parks and anniversaries
Taylor and I took Rosie to Carowinds this week. This trip was a flying success; thanks Taylor for the awesome idea. We surprised Rosie, and left Mercy behind with Grandma Zippy and Papa Pack (Thanks again for the help!), and had a whole day to have fun. Taylor reached out to her cousin who lived…
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Seventy, sanity, and staying home
Dad is a septuagenarian Dad, congrats! We have some fun memories, and often, they still come up in my dreams. Yes, I even had dreams about Merriewold this week. Work took you to Greensboro a long time ago. You had no idea that it would turn into an awesome home for me and my brothers…