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Alright Apple… I have a big bitch session to have with you.  For many years, I have been ignoring your marketable items like the beggar at a major street corner on a busy highway.  You have approached me each and every day pawning your goods and trying to convince me that I should give in and give you my attention and my hard earned money.  You have had many opportunities to infiltrate my life through work, pleasure and even the influence of my friends/family.  But I held strong with a... Read Full Story

Well, it was the kickoff to camping season 2011.  I pondered high and low to come up with a theme for the camping season and BLAMMO!  It hit me.  Campin’ Heaven 2011! So with the theme in mind and the excitement that can only be described as a kid on Christmas eve, we packed up the camper, dusted off the camping list and headed out to Ramblin Pines campground for our first official camping weekend of the season. Even though the temperatures were a little on the cold side (I think it got... Read Full Story

As the girls played outside on the swing set this evening in the expanding daylight and flirtatious spring air, I watched them from the warmth of our home with the gnawing expanse of disastrous information pouring out of Japan in the background from CNN.  I was moved to tears in the uncontrollable heartache my fellow humans are facing on the opposite side of the globe this evening.   I cannot fathom the thought of having the life and family that I know completely ripped away from me in an... Read Full Story

If anyone told me 7 years ago that the definition of a relaxing friday night would be getting home from work, eating pizza with the girls, and being absorbed by the latest Spongebob episode on the television (which mind you, was an episode that I have seen 16 THOUSAND times before this) and then cleaning up the dishes from our ‘Betty Crocker’ moment and a couple hours later tucking the girls into bed with a cliff-hanging climax of Junie B Jones’ Christmas chapter book, I would have... Read Full Story

As the leaves start to fall and the crisp air forces us all inside to hibernate for the year, I have to quickly look back on the amazing 15 camping trips we took this year and with a sad face, cast off the 2010 camping season and start preparations for the year ahead. We started the camping season with celebrating Easter with Yogi Bear in Luray, Virginia and ended the season celebrating Halloween with Yogi Bear in Hagerstown, Maryland.. Trip #1 April 1-5th – Jellystone Campground... Read Full Story

In an unbelievable turn of events, Mia’s 18 month checkup for her Kidney reflux turned into a day of excitement and relief for all involved!  She has been downgraded to stage 2 from  a stage 5 that she was originally diagnosed with only a short time ago!  The Dr. was amazed at the progress her little body was able to achieve in such a short amount of time. What does this mean for her and the family?  No surgery!!  Let me repeat that..  NO SURGERY! This event was more powerfully burned... Read Full Story

I can’t help but think about a close friend that just recently lost her father.  My chest implodes when I think about all of the grief and disparity that she and her siblings and mother are going through right now.  Life may see like it has crashed into a brick wall and there is no one that can rescue you all from the grief and emotional diaster that you are facing, but I would like to try and comfort you with the reassuring fact that while this seems like the final chapter of life, there... Read Full Story

So we had  a little bump in the road last weekend at the end of our 10 day camping trip at the farm in PA with a car accident that left the Ford Explorer incapacitated and not able to haul the trailer to the next camping destination.  But this didn’t dampen our spirits on our summer fun.  My cousin Danny (thank you thank you thank you) brought his Tundra to the rescue and hauled our trailer to his house in preparation for the 45th Milliron Family Reunion!  But wait..  Don’t leave yet..  It’s... Read Full Story

While it’s been a week after you and I entered into a union a decade ago that death could only part; I felt that I needed to describe to you how much your love means to me and what I feel our future will be together. If you think back, it was a short 10 years ago that you spotted that young oak tree swaying in the breeze;  showing all of it’s young passion through the massive display of branches and leaves perching the summer sun with a green vitality of spirit and kinetic energy. That... Read Full Story

We’ve been on soo many camping trips this year that every single time I create a post Sara has to correct what number of the trip is..  Well, last weekend was actually camping trip 10 and camping trip 11 is going to be a doozy of an awesome time! CAMPVILLE 2010 is quickly approaching in less than 4 days and we are like ants recreating our mound after a ‘Katrina-sized’ human ’shoeing’ event.  I can’t even explain how many to do, to buy, to pack lists we have right now..  If we survive after... Read Full Story