Welcome to Family & Connection, where we explore the evolving relationships that shape our midlife years — from parenting teens and supporting grown kids to nurturing friendships and rediscovering community. These stories are about staying connected through change, celebrating the people who matter most, and finding joy in the bonds that sustain us.
June was a month of two halves. The first half spent madly trying to attend every end of year school activity, the second half spent on a family vacation in Ireland. The contrast couldn’t have been greater!
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What can I say about May? On the one hand, a fabulous month full of exciting trips and fun activities. On the other, one of the busiest and perhaps least productive (on the to-do list front anyway) for quite some
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April seemed to fly past just as quickly as March did, although it was slightly less chaotic. Still, hard to believe that it’s nearly May.
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Had enough talk of snow from me yet? I have! But, this years snow obsession would be incomplete without our last (hopefully) storm. The crazy one that left us with 20 inches of the white stuff.
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In a fit of hopefulness that spring might finally be around the corner, I thought it was time to do a little catch up on our winter!
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Well, they do say that March comes in like a lion. And, this year that was certainly true! The beginning of the month saw the first of four nor’easters hit.
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New England has been giving us its best in crazy-swinging-temperature-flip-flops-to-snow-boots weather. February vacation went from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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After what felt like the quickest Christmas break ever, we only had two days back at school before we had our first two snow days of the year, and a bonus long weekend!
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Well, here we are almost two weeks into January and I’m still looking back to Christmas! Slow start to the year here.
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It snowed! The first snow of the winter is always exciting, and it really is hard to beat fresh snow and blue skies.
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