Dedications, Graduations and Celebrations

We had another BUSY week

 When we started off this week Dad was not feeling so good :( We learned he was dehydrated and his blood levels aren't where they should be so he had to rehydrate, lower the diuretics which were causing the dehydration and eat some more salads which thins your blood.

He is feeling a little better now thank goodness!

 

We were able to attend the dedication of the new Box 4 Rehab truck for the Fire, EMS and Police Departments. Dunkin Donuts graciously donated much of the funding for the truck as well as private donors who donated the rest of the funding. As always the Leary Firefighter's Foundation came to our aid again and helped fund the project.

Brendan and Joey Miloz worked with Jose Ramos and a few of the other WFD guys to make another response truck that will be dispatched in the event of an incident, disaster or fire. 

 

Brendan couldn't make the dedication because he had to work so he made sure to photocopy his face and duct tape it to the passenger seat of the truck Joe drove down. Steve gave us a Box 4 uniform shirt for Brendan so Joe and I put it on his seat and took a photo to send him. He was there in spirit :)

 

The trucks are really both beautiful inside and out. We are very lucky to have such awesome pieces of apparatus as part of our fleet. 

 Sweet Bakery on Shrewsbury Street made this awesome cake that looked just like the big truck! They also made a whole bunch of cupcakes with dunkin donuts colored decorations on top. The cake was so cool no one wanted to cut into it so mostly people ate the cupcakes :)

This week also marked Assumption graduation

This is a pretty dark image but at the podium is standing our commencement speaker Richard DeLauriers. He was the FBI agent responsible for the James "Whitey Bulger" Capture, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum leads and most recently the capture of the two Boston Marathon bombers. When he was introduced and when her received his honorary degree he received a standing ovation that lasted a full three minutes. People could not stop clapping for him. It was wonderful to have an Alum as important to American history as he is to Assumptions history! There were tears of joy shed by many on this day.

I will miss my senior students. It is always bittersweet to see them graduate, knowing full well they will not be returning to Assumption in the fall. I wish them all the luck in the world!

 

This Saturday at UCONN my cousin Gabby graduated with her doctorate in Pharmacy which means she is a doctor of Pharmacy and the only doctor in the family :) I AM SO PROUD OF HER!!!! She worked so incredibly hard these last 6 years! I couldn't be a happier cousin :) We are all very proud of her!

 

Sunday we celebrated Mother's day at Auntie Janet and Uncle Jimmy's. Lilly decided that she wanted to dress up like Little Orphan Annie. She got the outfit down complete with the heart locket! She was so cute :) Kylie had on a cute little shirt that said make everyday happy. Those kids certainly make everyday of our lives happy. We are so luck to have them :)

 

Julie and Dad got in some quality rocking time. Julie was a little bit fussy but she had plenty of people to entertain her.

My cousins from Alaska were visiting again for mother's Day and to finish cleaning out my Aunt's house since her move. It was so great to spend the day with them too. Most exciting was that my cousin Katy is home from traveling the world and learning about other cultures. I am really looking forward to spending some quality time with her at our annual Memorial Day weekend at the Cape. 

We hope to spend some more time with our cousins from Alaska this week. They are all heading back to Alaska on Saturday and we won't get to see them until the fall :( It's great having them here. We have so many family members in Alaska it's too bad it's so far away. I wish we could just beam back and forth and visit more often. This summer my Auntie Phyllis Ann and my cousin/Godson Jacob are coming to visit! Jacob will be attending a program through the Boston hospitals for students interested in pre-med. Who knows we may have two doctors in the family soon :)

 I am exhausted due to allergy season. I had to take a silly children's chewable benedryl to stop my eyes from watering, my throat from itching and my sneezing from blowing my lungs apart! It's really not fun. So I am pretty sleepy and hope I can at least come out of the fog in the morning in time for kickboxing or I may be the one who is boxed :(

That's all the news that's fit to print. Stay tuned for next week. Dad has an appointment on Tuesday so I will report the findings in the next blog post.

Happy Lilac season everyone, and may the sneezing cease soon!

Laurie