Here is

the most

beautiful

baby

in the

world!

Busy summer spent mostly online case-studying my way through Public School Law. I can think of about 5000 things that would have been more fun to do! Here it is almost September now. Ben just got back from Haiti, and Jamie is working two jobs in town. Jordan and Jenny are doing well in California...just too far away. Can't wait to see Davidino again! Niles and I are in Waynesboro, NC here in this picture. We're the ones in the middle :-)

Little
Davide...
first
grandson!
Jordan
& Jenny
did a
great job!

Another of my handsome guys...BEN. He'll leave for a three-month mission trip to Haiti in a few days. My three sons are sure spread out all over the world!

Here's Jamie in yet another country...Taiwan!

jenny & davide (looks like jordan)

little davide...a beautiful baby boy! born april 19th

Spring break is almost here!

Here is a bowl full of Japanese

maple seed pods...on the

ground at GT Bray after a

windy night.

Talking with Jamie

on Skype...makes

South Korea seem

like it's a lot closer!

July 16, 2009

LEWISTON — Chaos spread across the city Wednesday afternoon as the Cowan Mill on the shore of the Androscoggin River went up in flames. Buildings around it were showered with falling cinders.

That happened at about 4:20 p.m. when embers from the burning Cowan Mill floated down onto the roof of Bates Mill No. 5, setting the saw-tooth-roofed building across the street on fire.

Okay, one more for today. I saw this on my homepage (Sun Journal in Maine, Jan. 2010). It was called "Ice Cave." (This is the winter view of the above scene...just "zoom in.")

This one kills me...from Jamie's trip to Shanghai last week. It's a pigeon (even though it looks like a frog in jeopardy) and, yes, he ate it.

ALLIE
(la baronessa)

This is a birthday gift from my friend, Patrick. I was totally surprised--I had admired this little table in a junk/antique store that we were in, and he went back and bought it for me! It's adorable.

Time for a new post! Here's the preparation for Valentine's dinner...filet mignon, scallops, asparagus, good crusty bread...yum!

I've been going through pictures lately, and sent this one to Jordan. He'll be a father soon, and needed to see his own newborn picture! He was born at Salvator Mundi International Hospital in Rome. I remember that he smelled like cioccolato e camomila, for some strange reason! How wonderful to anticipate having a grandson!

Merry

Christmas

2009

Just a few pics to represent the belated party...Colleen came, too (my "wee Irish friend" and colleague).

Here's Ben playing his sax back in April.

Don't know when I'll hear him play again,

but it won't be in a tux, that's for sure.

Currently, his sax is in its case in my

storage unit, and I am holding his Louis

Armstrong Jazz Award until he picks it up!

Just wanted to add a pic from late summer, just after school started up again. We were on our way to St. Armand's with Andy & Jean. This is Niles' bearded tough guy look! This week, Jean's kindergarten class sent their names to be matched up with my 12th grade honor students. It was funny to see my seniors grabbing up the little kids' names (and identities) just like they did last year. Gotta take a group pic of the class tomorrow so that the little people can see who they are writing to!