Category: Family
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Today is my Uncle Tom Stansfield’s birthday. He would be 87. The fact he passed away last year (June 14, a Sunday) doesn’t lessen my wish to celebrate him on this day. So here is a rough reprise of my parts of Tom’s eulogy, delivered along with my brother Chris, at Holy Family Church in…
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I was dead asleep on a Monday night when the phone rang. I’d been asleep only an hour, but as I was startled awake, it felt like much longer. It was my oldest son calling to say that his car had died on the way home and he was stranded on the side of the…
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We started the holiday with a brunch for friends on Christmas Eve, went to New Jersey on the 25th, and ended up this weekend with the Kirks visiting us here in Pennsylvania. It’s been good to see everyone, and now it’ll be good to get back to a normal schedule and eating like normal human…
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About 30 friends and family members snuck up on the house and surprised Kevin a week before his 50th birthday, when he thought three couples were going over for a dinner party. Virginia told everyone to bring beer and balloons. We are now swimming in both. So if you like either, come on by!
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About 5 years ago, my mom made the offhand comment to Pete that she would take him to Las Vegas for his 21st birthday. Five years later, she was good to her word. This is the two of them in the lounge of the hotel/resort/casino Aria. The two of them spent four nights in Vegas…
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We celebrated Kelly’s graduating high school with a party Saturday. About 50 adults and many students were there. We could not have done it without the help of the Kirk and McKeone families. One thing Susan and Emily Kirk helped with was a set of table placements that included photos of Kelly and facts, real…
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We’re getting to the end of Kelly’s senior year of high school and last Friday was a milestone: his senior prom. he went with his girlfriend Emily, and we met her family when they came over for photos. We also had the grandmas. i’m starting to think he’s actually going to graduate.
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Kelly and Mike have made their college choices and, surprise!, they’re going to the same place: the university of Delaware. Can you tell from the photo? This is them taking a break at an ultimate frisbee tournament.
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Here’s Kelly on the Methacton courts at the the start of tennis season this spring.
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One of the strange things about our family (among many) is that our kids don’t go to our church. Pete doesn’t go to any church, though I wouldn’t be surprised if he sees the value in it sometime down the road. Kelly does, but he followed his own call to Main Line Unitarian Church, where he…
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It’s been a crummy, cold, nasty winter, so escaping to Kevin’s mom’s place in Vero Beach for a week in early March was a wonderful treat. We sat by the pool, saw some spring training baseball (all Mets, all the time), and ate A LOT. There were four of us, but it was a bit…
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It’s no secret that it’s been a tough school year for Kelly, who has been struggling with migraines since October. So it was nice last week when he completed a grueling week of midterms without missing a day of school. And on Friday, he got some more good news: he was accepted at Temple University.…
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