Run, Grandma, run.
Roll, Grandma, roll.
Faster. Faster.
No, these are not words from a primer or a “Dick and Jane” book.
These are my grandsons thinking that I, their Grandma, am oh… young and agile enough to run and roll and run and roll some more.
And how can I shatter their innocent little perceptions?
I can’t. That’s […]

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… to get all 3 boys and Mom and Dad together on the couch for a photo?
Somehow maneuvering a way to get Alexander away from my Nana’s 89th birthday cake.
Getting Benjamin to sit still for 2 seconds.
Matt and I sitting down… together.
Keeping the climbing boys away from my growing tummy… and Henry!
And deciding that William […]

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My husband was away this past week on business.
When my husband is away… my mother, my father and my sister become my lifesavers.
Especially my mother.
She spends 24/7 with all of us.
And this past week… even though we all had the flu and Pink Eye… she didn’t bat an eye (even though she ended up coming […]

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Didn’t you just love those photo booths that used to be in, like, every mall and movie theater!? We sure did. Here are the outcomes of three of those photo booth trips. I think these were all taken in either 1991 or 1992.
The first one is me (Jane), Audrey and Dad; the second is me, […]

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Oh, what’s this? A cute picture of me (Jane) in 1993, at my 13th birthday party, posing with my oldest brother Keith (right) and his friend Steve (left). Keith and Steve had stopped by my party to say hello… they were on their way to a college party.

Of course, those of you who are familiar […]

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My husband loves coffee milk.
Coffee milk… as in 2 or 3 tablespoons of Autocrat Coffee Syrup mixed into a nice, tall glass of cold milk.
This, in my experience, is kind of a Rhode Island thing. I had never heard of Coffee Syrup until I moved to Rhode Island. And the phenomenon doesn’t stop […]

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OK, I’ll admit that I’ve always been kind of a girly-girl when it comes to understanding football.
This year I was kind of forced into "getting it" a little more because my husband coached football at his high school.
But that doesn’t mean I completely enjoyed sitting through the games.
It’s not that I don’t like sports. […]

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This picture is from December 1994, and it’s (left to right) me (Jane), Mom, Dad and Audrey. It was taken before our high school Christmas dance, before our dates arrived to pick us up! Mom, could you have maybe suggested I put a little make-up on? Can you say “pasty white!?”

This next one is from […]

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We’ve been tagged!
Thank you Dawn at Coming to a Nursery Near You!
Here are 8 facts/things/habits about myself:
1. Since my father was married before my mother, and had my 2 brothers from that marriage, my birth order is a bit different… I’m the oldest on my mother’s side of the family. First daughter. First grandchild. […]

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