“Mimi,” my very favorite boomer-blogging friend, asked in a recent post… “Are You Ready for Thanksgiving?”
After a kind-of startled moment, I realized that I am not completely ready for Thanksgiving this year. It is not because I haven’t ordered my fresh turkey or carefully removed my favorite recipes from their plastic folders. [...]

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I raised 4 children.
I am enjoying my 9 grandchildren more than I can even express in words.
I helped care for my vivacious mother-in-law as her health rapidly declined this summer. I was with her when she passed away.
I am the primary caretaker of my own Mom. My Mom. A beautiful woman who [...]

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A beautiful blog friend of ours had a little Baby girl… born last Tuesday, November 11th… at 28 weeks.  Baby weighed 2 lbs. 3 oz. and measured in at 34 centimeters.  Baby is strong and vibrant and sassy and gorgeous… and Mommy will be staying with her for many, many weeks- months even… far, far [...]

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I’m going to get all existential on you for a moment or two… probably because I heard a young mother at a diner this morning tell the waitress that her son is going to be a doctor when he grows up. I know I’ve addressed this topic before, but the young moms are not [...]

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Ugly ducklings. Proms and formal dances. Boyfriends. Heartbreak.
Why do these things always go hand-in-hand? And why do we always seem to have photographs to remind us?
Miss Britt the Magnificent (because she is) had to go and write a couple of moving posts that got me thinking about these oftentimes painful reminisces [...]

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Visiting some of my favorite blogging friends last evening, I happened upon one blog post in particular that stuck with me all night and into today. It was by Amy at Permission to Peruse… and it was about a parent-teacher conference concerning her daughter, a kindergartner. The conference went well. Nothing out [...]

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I am not one to openly criticize behavioral management and/or disciplinary skills of parents. I am a parent to 4 grown children and a grandparent to 9 grandchildren. I have my opinions. (Lord, do I have my opinions.) But that is neither here nor there for this discussion.
Nay. This discussion involves [...]

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Can you pinpoint the very moment in time that set you on the path to meet a current/former significant other… the moment that forever changed your entire life and legacy?
Think about it, if you will.
This “lifetime” thought began this morning with finding a sample lipstick from a summer event swag bag that I just this [...]

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As a kid, what did you ask Santa to bring you?
I live in a very old New England home with lots of nooks and crannies. And the nooks and crannies are what make my home like Disney World to my grandchildren. There’s always something to discover.
Take my laundry area, for example. On [...]

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Do you have a green plaid poncho in your past?
Earlier this week, when my birthday was all wrapped up and almost over, I was asked by one of my grandsons if I always got my birthday candle wish. I had to think about this for a moment… and then I remembered.
I remembered when [...]

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