GREAT

HAPPY 9th BIRTHDAY

MATTHEW!

It was a great day for a really great kid!

Birthday party at the Iron Pigs Game

Photo Friday No. 71

Learning to Swim in

New Jersey

A little bit of country in

Pennsylvania

16 Candles

Thank you for the SPECIAL post on my birthday! Other than that, it was 16 Candles. Over the weekend, Ed and I came down with a bout of food poisoning. :( Ironically, we ordered the same entree - Dover sole - at a romantic birthday dinner. Finally starting to feel better today. On a bright note, I lost ten pounds I think. Ed may have lost more. Hopefully, next year will be better. It has to be..

Tricia

SPECIAL

I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.  

~Author unknown, 

attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren

Happy Birthday Sister!

It's a special day.

Love,

Tracy

Photo Friday No. 70

Concert in

New Jersey

(see Grace?)

Summer Fun in

Pennsylvania

SIZZLE

Welcome Summer!  


And welcome mini-heat wave.  Pushing 100 degrees here on the East Coast.  Yikes!


Tracy

Beach - 2011

So Long, Farewell

This much I know about myself..I am good at roots but not so good at wings. Tomorrow, Grace is graduating 5th grade - leaving elementary school - heading to middle school. All in a matter of a few hours. She is elated and I am distraught. As a parent, watching your child grow up, even a tiny bit, is one of the hardest things to do. Tomorrow, during the traditional "clap out", there will be tears. Maybe lots of them. I will wear large sunglasses. I will hug Grace and tell her how proud I am of her and I will send her on her way. I will watch her grow up even if it breaks my heart. It is time for her to fly.

Tricia

PS photo is Grace on her first day of first grade at the "big school" aka elementary school