On April 30, families from all 50 states and the District of Columbia as they stormed Capitol Hill for Strolling Thunder to ask Congress to Think Babies! Families spoke to their representatives about what babies and their families need to thrive, including: quality, affordable child care, time for parents to bond with their babies, healthy emotional development, and strong physical health and nutrition.

Learn more: www.thinkbabies.org/strollingthunder/

Football vs. Cal - Poly

The little tikes just can't keep as still as their parents.

Everyone waving (including me)

Parents watch as U6 player dribbles

playing with lightroom here

Parent committee selling apples

I love the mean mug he's giving in this picture .. like a little candy mob boss .. PRICELESS!!

Some pictures from the last Youth Street Parents night.

On October 20, 2022, Misericordia celebrated the launch of the new Parent Pathways of Northeastern Pennsylvania program

I got this picture of Interstate 75 as we came down off a bridge someplace not too far north of Naples, as we were being mobbed by traffic. There are a thousand cars in this picture. This isn't just a recent development. Traffic was solid the whole way, from the moment we hopped onto 75 north of Tampa until the moment we left it just west of Miami.

I've only ever been this way once before in 2004, but I feel like this road has changed a lot since then. It's been 21 years, I know, and my 21-year-old memory isn't as trustworthy as I might hope, but I remember this road clearing out south of Sarasota. The road was empty once we got past Fort Meyers and approached Naples. It's not like that anymore. Florida had a population of 17.42 million people in 2004. Twenty years later in 2024, the population was 23.37 million. That's an increase of 34%, or almost 6 million people. Florida has grown by the entire current population of Colorado since I last drove past Naples. If the population increase of Florida since 2004 was made into its own state, it would have 8 seats in the House of Representatives and would be larger than 30 other states. And every single one of those new people were driving Interstate 75 between Tampa and Miami.

There was a period after my grandparents died in the late aughts when my parents were seriously considering moving to Florida, and went so far as to make a couple of house hunting trips to a Tampa suburb. They were almost a part of the mass migration into Florida and would have been part of this mess, but they never pulled the trigger on it. I'm glad they didn't do it. I don't think they'd have been happy in all this.