Howard Family Mexico Trip 2009

Each year our family gathers at Playa Bonita RV Park in Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico. All of our family was there, plus some friends and extended family. It was a great, relaxing time.

Where in the World is the Howard Family?

We have had a great time with the family in Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico. Most everyone has now gone home. It looks like this is the only time this year we will all be together, so we were able to get a last minute family picture before everyone took off.
We are still here, sailing, walking on the beach, reading and generally enjoying the beachfront site on the Sea of Cortez. Also, we have several couple friends who are always here in October. Today 8 of us went to the Family of God Church and then out to breakfast. We spent the afternoon sailing.

Ray and Denise Go Geocaching With Us

My brother Ray and his wife Denise are here visiting my mother and us for the long weekend. Last night we went karaoking with them, and Ray brought down the house, but the place we went shall remain nameless! Today, they went geocaching with us.

Life in a snapshot - The Boston Globe

I had a pleasant moment on the phone today with an old friend. We were catching up, and she was telling me about her two little 2 year old grandsons. She commented that she had thought maybe she would never be a grandparent and then here are these two grandsons born three months apart. She spends her days now running Grandma's Daycare!
It reminded me of a column I had read by Ellen Goodman. Here is an excerpt:


Life in a snapshot - The Boston Globe

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"Parents - I remember well - are caught in the dailiness of child-raising. But grandparents, imbued with a different sense of time, create a narrative arc across generations. If parents are the forward momentum of a child’s life, we become the curators of traditions.

How odd, I think, as I sort the photographs, that of all the generations, mine would end up as traditionalists. Weren’t we the ones who upended the whole culture, the relationships between husbands and wives, the preconceptions about family? Aren’t we the people who were born before TV and, in a blink, got Medicare cards and iPhones at the same time? Weren’t we our country’s designated change agents?

Yet, here we are after all this time, with our children’s children. We have become, of all things, of all people, the collectors of memories and builders of family traditions. This is what we do with small people on a small island, one snapshot, one story, and one summer at a time."

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Geocaching Around Home

We are at home in Tucson, supervising the remodel of our swimming pool. Also, I have been doing my payback days to Amphi district by doing Dibels testing with first graders at Mesa Verde Elementary School.
When it cools down a bit in the evening we go geocaching. We found one this evening not far from the house.... about 1 and 1/2 miles. We picked up some trash on the way out, as we usually do.
I thought I should show off my geocaching boots which my sister gave me. And since my mother keeps putting Denny's socks in MY sock drawer, I figured I would wear them to keep the cholla from "jumping" on me!