I wake up every day with all these brilliant ideas of things I’d love to blog about.  Ideas run through my head all the way to work.  I talk to myself making mental notes hoping that if I run it through the gray matter long enough that maybe it’ll stick until I get home to [...]

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Some things in life you never forget. . . your first bicycle, your first boyfriend, your first car, your first apartment, your first baby, your second baby. . . you get my drift.  Well, twenty-three years ago today, my second baby was born, and for sure, it would be a day like none other not [...]

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I hope everyone had a long, joyous Christmas holiday weekend. After running willy nilly, suffering complete computer failure, one mini meltdown and tons of cooking preparation for the last month. . . Christmas turned out splendidly at my house.
Since I’m not nearly as organized in my old age as I was when I was [...]

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I took this from my friend, DeWitte. He is so funny. You should read his answers to this survey. I especially love the picture at the bottom. I stole it from his site as well. Hope you don’t mind DeWitte. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right?
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Christmas 1987, when we lived in San Diego in a little community north of Miramar Naval Air Station, we had this fabulous neighbor family with a teenage boy and a tweenage girl who adored my boys (they were like live dolls to them, I think). I adored these kids as well. That year, [...]

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Wow! Talk about Christmas Past. . . this is my brother, my sister and myself in 1966. I was five days away from my sixth birthday.

The thing is. . . I remember that tree. I distinctly remember feeling sorry for it and wanting to make it pretty. I thought [...]

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As odd as one might think, I have a fantastic relationship with my ex-husband’s family, even though we’ve been divorced almost 18 years. He and I aren’t particularly close, but we DO get along when we’re in the same room. (I actually think we’d get along better if the current wife wasn’t so insecure, [...]

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My kids asked me once if TVs were even invented when I was a kid. It reminded me of this that I saved awhile back, because truly being a kid in the “Old Days” isn’t remotely like it is today. Read this:
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, [...]

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I’ve lived in this house for more than 12 years now. When we moved here, the boys were still children; fourth and sixth grades. I still remember the first week we were here when I had the peephole installed in the front door, they were complaining about it being so high. I, being [...]

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I don’t do this often, but TODAY especially, it’s in America’s spirit that I copy something from a fellow blogger. Ralph on MSN Spaces where my blog used to reside and where I still remain in touch, posted this below. It will tear at your heartstrings. I’m totally blubbering after reading it. [...]

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