In Sickness And In Health

As I recall, part of our marriage vows referred to loving each other in sickness and in health.  I’m pretty sure that those vows were referring to our state of health, but that’s not really how we use that vow.
Long ago, Shaun nabbed the role of over-reacting alarmist .  I was left with the less [...]

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Next to my bed~Fun Monday

For this week’s Fun Monday, Angela from The Lurchers would like to “know, or see, what’s on, in or under your bedside table!”  Hmmmm…nothing too interesting, but I’ll show you what I’ve got. 
First of all, we don’t have bedside tables or commodes as my parents used to call them.  We decided when we first moved [...]

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A Little Silliness

FARM KID (NOW AT San Diego MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING)
Dear Ma and Pa, I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.
I was restless at first [...]

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Faith

KT has always had more faith in my abilities than I ever have.  Her whole life she’s known that she has but to ask me to do something  special for her and I will do my best to make it happen.  Over the years, I’ve created some pretty fancy birthday cakes, elaborate Halloween costumes, a [...]

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My Five Month Notice

During soccer season, I was chatting with one of my girlfriends (but mostly watching Mimi’s game.  Really!) when I mentioned that I had been keeping my eyes open for some sort of job.  I hadn’t worked or volunteered much in the previous year and really felt the need to be doing something more.  The only [...]

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My Wicked Child

My children have a wicked sense of humor (obviously they get that from their father).   Not having a blog way back in  1997 (in fact, being very reluctant to even touch the compter if the truth be told) I used to send Shaun little updates throughout the day.  Shaun just stumbled across this one and [...]

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The View From My Door

Today is the first anniversary of Fun Monday (yesterday was an even more important anniversary, but I’ll get to that another time! Hi Mom and Dad!) Vicki was the original hostess and she’s today’s hostess as well.  Apparently she had no idea that her little idea of getting everyone to post a photo of the view [...]

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I Might Even Be a Rock Star!

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve gotten a little behind in my blogging. But I’ve got really good excuses reasons.  First of all, I took off with eight of my best friends to a “scrapbook” retreat.  (more about that later).  Then I had to take a day to recover from my weekend. (Huge apologies to [...]

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I heard it on the radio

I have never been one of those girls that gets all excited at the thought of meeting one of the celebrity heart throb musicians in whatever the IN band happens to be.  Seeing images of girls fainting when the Beatles started to sing puzzled me. I can remember being astonished as my aunt sobbed her [...]

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A Family Project

There’s something about big school projects that gets the whole family involved.  Yes, the project is supposed to be done by just the kid, but we can’t resist adding in our own ideas.  Before the winter break, Mimi was to study and create a model of an atom  and create a poster in the shape [...]

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