And... Happy Birthday!

April is a busy time of year. Moving across to the other side of the family, this one is for Grandpa.

We love you lots! 

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Happy Birthday Papou/Daddy

And another one! Whew, it's a busy week for the Imgrund family! We love you! Next year we can celebrate with you!

Good Friday

The kids and I mounted an expedition to collect rocks and bricks worthy of a tomb for our divine savior. Maria and Thomas each carried a heavy one all the way from the Schloss to our home (I carried Edmund as well as all the other rocks). Lisa took charge of the construction, and Maria added the little crucifix on top as a finishing touch. Here she is with the finished product.

Tigers Baseball

Note well:

The Austrian Joys will be watching Tigers' games only after Easter.
Your silence is therefore respectfully requested concerning said games in order to protect the integrity of our viewing experience.
Thank you, and Go Tigers!

Thomas and the Slide

This happened a few weeks ago, but is probably worth recording on here for the sake of posterity. Poor guy. He handled it like a champ, though.

Now for another birthday post...

Happy Birthday, Veronica!

Happy Birthday, Adelaide

We can't wait to see you this summer!

La Lumiere School

 

News update for those who haven't heard yet. I have accepted an offer to teach Latin, Ethics, and Theology at La Lumiere School, a Catholic boarding prep school in Northwestern Indiana, located in between La Porte (IN), Michigan City (IN), and New Buffalo (MI). My duties there will begin on or around August 6, 2012, so we will probably move there at the beginning of August after spending most of July in Lansing. We could hardly be more excited about this! Thanks for all of your prayers and support throughout our time in Austria, and especially as we've searched for the next step in our lives.

And thanks to St Joseph to whom we prayed for this throughout the entire month of March!

And, of course, for Mom/Grandma...

Home again in Austria

It was an exhausting week long tour of the United States, and I am glad to be back again with Lisa and the kids. Thanks to all of you who took care of me on my journey, and sorry I missed the rest of you. Time was too short for much visiting, but if the trip bears fruit then we will be seeing much more of you all from this Summer onward. We have fixed our timeline, by the way, in case any of you are interested. July 5 will be our first day back in the USA. And we're all looking forward to it.

Feast of St. Patrick

Happy St. Patrick's day to all, and happy belated to Vincent and Brigid.

(for Vince)

(for Brigid)

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday, Mom/Nana! 

With love from all of us!

Novena to St Joseph

Please join us in praying a novena to St Joseph petitioning for success in our search for happy employment. The novena will last from today, March 10, until March 18, the eve of St Joseph's solemn feast day. I'll also be flying in for a couple of interviews on the feast of St Joseph. Here is the prayer we are using:

To thee, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation, and having implored the help of thy most holy Spouse, we confidently invoke thy patronage also. Through that charity which bound thee to the immaculate Virgin Mother of God and through the paternal love with which thou embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg thee to graciously regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with thy power and strength to aid us in our necessities.

O most watchful Guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be propitious to us and from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness; and, as once thou rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God's Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of us by thy constant protection, so that, supported by thy example and thy aid, we may be able to live piously, to die holy, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen.

St Joseph, pray for us.