First things first: It’s not that bad. We’ve been extending the time between Kelly’s Remicade treatments and we were up to 8 weeks between treatments. This was the longest we’d tried to go — and we didn’t quite make it. After about five weeks he started to show symptoms. By the time we got in…

Virginia has her tea and she’s happy Saturday at Valley Forge National Park, where we took our Sunday school class for National Park Lands Day. We helped clean up a section of the park, with 7 of our students. It was a good, productive morning. Kelly missed it. He’s been having a flare. This is…

We got through the first two days of school (though Virginia went to sleep Monday night talking about how Pete only has two “first days” left, and reminiscing about his first day of school, more than a decade ago. he was SO CUTE!) … Then the kids had Thursday off for Rosh Hashanah. Seems like…

We had a blast at Kevin’s brother Chris’ house Sunday in NJ—and not just a blast of water. The Curth girls—Mary and Marion—were there with family and friends, as well Judy’s family, the Stansfields (no Betty, recovering from surgery), and even some of Chris’ college buddies. It was a long ride home, though. Didn’t leave…

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Virginia and I visited a friend, who is 80, with throat cancer. He had radiation earlier this year, but it didn’t work well, and it’s returned with a vengeance, spreading and challenging the docs to come up with a new plan to halt its progress. Anyway, Virginia asked the hard question, “Could you lose your…

105_0292, originally uploaded by kevdonahue. We returned to Rehoboth Beach, Del., for the first time in two years (October 2007) and had a great time. We were joined at different times by the Kahns, the Alexanders, the Kirks, and Kevin’s mom. You can never say our vacations, even the stay-in-one-place ones, are boring. And is…

It’s been a long 2010 so far, and we’re very happy to be headed to a relaxing week at Rehoboth Beach, Del. This is a photo from our last visit in Oct., 2008, when we kept sneaking the boys into bars to watch the Phillies’ run to the World Series—some of our most memorable times.…

P1070081, originally uploaded by kevdonahue. After two years, Virginia had had it with the white fence. The first third of it is now green — whispering windy pine, I think is the paint’s name. Thanks to Rich Alexander for use of his power washer. Made the whole thing much easier. Took 8 hours to do 23…

P1070141, originally uploaded by kevdonahue. Chris turned 38 last weekend, we celebrated over his house. Nick back from his first summer camp (loved it), Pete stayed with grandma to help clean up the garage and the yard (might not have loved it, but grandma took good care of him). We decided that Chris and I…