How many years?

Has it been since I posted?

Rory is now in his second semester as a freshman at Notre Dame. We loved having him at Christmas!

Reid is a senior at Jesuit. I just dropped him off at work at Liberty Burger. He's been working there since the beginning of Junior year. His BFF Daniel was working there at the time, so Reid thought it sounded fun! He's gotten all his college apps in ~ ND, Fordham (his #1 choice) Chicago Loyola, Baltimore and Spring Hill. I'm very curious what his choice will be. He's headed to Italy over Spring Break just as Rory did last year. We had Mattia stay with us this fall and Reid will be staying with his family in Milan.

Rudder is a junior and just finished up his second time acting in Jesuit One Acts. He was also in Jesuit's production of The Outsiders in the fall playing the policeman and a soc. He is still just as close to his posse as ever1

Riley is in 7th grade, part of the choir, musical (Beauty and the Beast as a servant) and girl scots. She also dances at the studio on Wednesdays in MT class.

We're almost done with the big kitchen and family room switch. We've used Holter Homes and even though it was supposed to be done for Thanksgiving and there's still a lot of trim / finishout to be done, it's beautiful! Regis is cooking a pot roast right now and I'm going to make an iron skillet cookie for dessert! YUM!

It's my second year owning the studio. We just tried an experiment yesterday... Jessica is the new Company Director and we had showcase yesterday, 5 weeks before our first comp, as a dry run with the teachers acting as judges. We also had a lovely dessert reception put together by the moms. I think in the long run it will pay off even though I had a huge panic moment when the girl literally did not know the entire last part of production.

We have a "new" dog (for two and a half years now) Shakespeare! He's a standard poodle who we all love even though he can be feisty!

Enough catching up for now... time to make dessert!