Emily & Sophia

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HANNAH!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, REBECCA ANNE!

A month or so ago Nate became a Major in our United States Air Force.  Our prayers go out to him and Andrew who give their whole selves for us and our country - the perfect sacrifice.  They had a good role model, you Dad!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EILEEN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MORGAN!

Thanks for the posting, Mike.  I can't get a comment posted for some reason.   I'm pretty sure the picture was taken in the front yard of my parents home on West Third Street.   No recall at all about when it was taken.   It was one of a very few times I wore the white uniform.

The 73rd Anniversary of Mom & Dad's Marriage

HAPPY 52nd ANNIVERSARY, SALLY & MIKE!

"We must have the courage to question what's going on around us and search for the only truth that will set us free."

John R. Wood
Taken from "Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Mission."

HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY, CHLOE!

                                                 Max blowing out his three candles!

HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY, KYLA!

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY, MAX!

HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY, LEIGH & JON!

                                       A proud grandpa with Sophia McKenzie Krouse :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STEVE BOYER!

HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY, JORDAN!

Happy Veterans Day!

Happy Veterans Day to all in our family who have served their country, especially in World War II.  Here is Mom and Dad soon after they were married.  The other is Sally's Dad, Alexander B. Curchin, Jr., who among other things was in Japan with MacArther during the occupation.

Welcome to our family, Sophia McKenzie Krouse!  Born at 6:19am November 10, 2016. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATTHEW!

Remembering Scott

I miss my little brother.

These words ring true today too:

Year by hear the complexities of this spinning world grow more bewildering and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities. –Woman’s Home Companion, December 1935

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY, ERICA!

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY, NOAH!

HAPPY 24th ANNIVERSARY, REBECCA & MICHAEL!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RYAN!

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. –Phyllis McGinley

Megan reminded me that the entries about Anya and Scott were a month early.   Can't explain the mistake.   Could blame old age.  Was looking at the wrong monthly calendar.

REMEMBERING SCOTT WHO DIED ON THIS DATE IN 2012.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANYA!

HAPPY 15th BIRTHDAY, CYNTHIA!
MOM WOULD HAVE BEEN 95 TODAY.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALISON!

HAPPY 12th ANNIVERSARY, MELISSA & DAVE!  (yesterday)

I missed 2 birthdays:
HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY, ELIJAH JOHN BORN!   (Sept.5)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEIGH!   (Sept.9)

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a new member of our family!  Mariana June Born was born this morning at 1:00am.  How many great grandchildren is that for you Dad?

Remembering that Maureen and Scott were married 15 years ago today.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. –Helen Keller

Too bad there's not a place under Trump's and Clinton's names to vote, "Neither one of the above."

I don't know about the rest of you but I don't like either political candidate running for President  so it's time to put our hope and faith in a higher power.  God is the only one in charge, not any elected official.

HAPPY 11th ANNIVERSARY, EMILY & KEVIN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAT!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SARAH MURPHY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RICHARD!

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY, ETHAN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MEGAN!

Remembering Scott on what would have been his 69th birthday.

HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY, SHAWN!

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy. –Louise Bogan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!  (yesterday)

HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY, EMMA!

HAPPY 45th ANNIVERSARY, PAT & STEVE!

HAPPY 9th BIRTHDAY, JACKSON!

HAPPY 31st ANNIVERSARY, MEGAN & STEVE!

HAPPY 18th ANNIVERSARY, ALISON & CHRIS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SALLY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMILY!

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY, NOELLE!

With all the violence we see today we must remind ourselves that it is up to us to stay vigilant in promoting peace and unity now.

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.  By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." –Robert Louis Stevenson

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY, JONATHAN PAVLESICH!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL FOX!

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. –Judy Garland

In this day of looking at models, actors and others, and trying to be like them, be yourself!  As the current popular song says: "You be you and I'll be me."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL!

HAPPY 42nd ANNIVERSARY, EILEEN & JOHN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEVIN!

Remembering all who served, especially those who paid the ultimate sacrifice

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TARA!
HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY, MIKE III and ANDREW!

HAPPY 8th ANNIVERSARY, KATY & TOM PAVLESICH! (yesterday)

I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us . . . we might be able to link up in a very creative way with our friends in the invisible world.  We do not need to grieve for the dead.  Why should we grieve for them?  They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation or pain.  They are home.  They are with God from whom they came. –John O’Donohue from Anam Cara

Suffering, more for some than for others, often comes before rest.   Your pain is gone, Bob.   Rest in peace.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SARAH!

The journey is the reward. –Chinese Proverb

Life is to be lived and enjoyed now, without regretting the past or worrying about the future.  Look around and see the beauty in what life offers and be grateful.  For many of us Spring is here and the cycle of life shows everywhere in new colorful blooms along with green grass and leaves!

Some of you may not know that Bob Boyer, Steve's father, died Thursday due to complications resulting from a fall on Mothers Day.   A memorial service will be held on Tuesday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JONATHAN!

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY, MOLLY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WHITNEY!

Barney's pastor gives a special sermon when most of the congregation is made up of seniors.   It's titled, "Blessed Are the Pacemakers."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRYAN!

I celebrate myself, and sing myself – I loaf and invite my soul . . . –Walt Whitman

Taking time to just be - and taking in the beauty that life offers, is heaven on earth.

Happy Birthday Dad!

HAPPY 26th ANNIVERSARY, SARAH & RICHARD!

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of your will.  –Epictetus

So according to Bobby McFarrin, "Don't worry - be happy!"

"I don't let old age bother me.   There are three signs of old age.   Loss of memory . . . I forget the other two."
                                                     Red Skelton

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROBIN!  (yesterday)

So much negative stuff from the media but it could be different if we focus on the positive:

How far that little candle throws his beams.  So shines a good deed in a weary world. –Shakespeare

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, AMELIA!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAVE!

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY DANIEL & MELANIE!  (yesterday)

Don't forget me.

   When I lived at Summit's Trace, I got to know a woman whose mother lived there for a while.   Sometimes she would stop by my apartment and we would talk about a wide range of subjects    She had already experienced tragedy in her life.   Her husband had suffered a fatal heart attack while playing golf.    In the years since I moved to Mansfield, she has had a double mastectomy and had a bad fall.   But she remains active in her church and still conducts tours of the Statehouse.   She closed her recent note with, "Love to you and don't forget me."    Never had anyone say that before, but believe not to be forgotten is a very human wish,  
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.  One of these is roots, the other, wings.  –Hodding Carter

Much in the news about who is right and who is wrong, and many times there can be truth in each perspective.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? –Jane Austen

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY, JACK!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANDY!

HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY, ALEX!

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience usually comes from bad judgment.
                                                                    Anonymous 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MELISSA!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KATY!

Well it worked!  We deleted me as an author on the blog and Dad re-invited me and here I am!

"I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong."  –Dorothy H. Rath

Benjamin Murphy was born on 2/8.  
      (Although he can add comments, Steve has not been able to make new postings.   I'll try to get that corrected.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NATHAN!

If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them,
                                                      Yiddish proverb

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY, FELICITY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS!

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY, ADELAIDE!

Mom left us four years ago on this date.   It was on Friday the thirteenth after gradually slipping away from the person who sold covered call options on the stock market, something most people don't really understand even when you explain it to them.   That's the person I remember and miss.

HAPPY 15th ANNIVERSARY, TARA & MIKE!

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY, ERIN!  (a day late)

Happy and blessed New Year, family!