Dear Kohler,
I am the grandmother of 7 grandsons.
Count ‘em. 7. Andrew is 5. Jake is 4. William is 3. Alexander is 2. Benjamin is 1. Henry is 12 weeks. And Dylan is 6 weeks.
That’s a lotta… how can I say this delicately… pee.
Yesterday is a wonderful example [...]

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Have you ever done this?
I did it yesterday.
And I am still cringing.
Oh… PLEASE make the memory disappear.
Barry and I were at a little farm stand, just having the best ‘ol summer time picking out beautiful ripe tomatoes, sun-touched corn, perfect peppers, luscious squash and nice, firm cucumbers.
Maybe it’s the cucumbers that got me into trouble. [...]

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Barry and I spontaneously took off this past Tuesday and headed to Cape Cod, or, as we New Englanders say, “the Cape.” The day was glorious… warm, breezy, beautiful sun in the big old blue sky.
Our plan was to head all the way to the tip of the Cape, to Provincetown, but a 13-mile [...]

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The good old national pastime. Baseball.
You know, where you root, root, root for the home team?
And eat, eat, eat ’til you’re as big as… well, Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas.

This past Sunday, Jane, her husband Steve, my husband Barry and I went to a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. The day [...]

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What combines fabulous fashion, great fun, and the friendly mingling of shoppers and celebrities?
SUPER SATURDAY… an annual “Designer Garage Sale” sponsored by Donna Karan and InStyle to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund was founded in 1994, and its mission is to fund cancer research into early detection and ultimately a [...]

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Many grandparents I know, including me, scan weekend newspaper guides for local children’s activities. Many of us plan vacation trips around the desires and needs of our grandchildren. And most of us love to entertain our grandchildren at our homes, or at the homes of our children and grandchildren.
It’s just what grandparents do.
But [...]

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I offer no apologies.
I wore a fanny pack this morning to my granddaughter’s swim meet.
Not that this decision hasn’t given my children something to revel in for the rest of eternity…
This is how it began.
It is hot here in New England today. 90-some odd degree hot. I was excitedly getting ready to head [...]

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My husband is good.
Really good.
I mean, he-knows-exactly-how-I-want-my-ice-cream good.
Tonight, we had a lot going on. A lot of this and a lot of that. And here in New England, it is about 9000 degrees tonight, with 1000% humidity.
So on our way home from the supermarket, I dreamed aloud of enjoying the perfect summer evening [...]

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Fabulous 4th of July spaghetti and seafood dinner at Tweet’s Balzano’s Family Restaurant for 8.
$120.00.

Amusement ride tickets for 4 of my grandchildren at the Bristol, RI 4th of July Carnival.
$40.00.

Getting strapped into a harness and jumping as high as the trees and doing FLIPS because my children and grandchildren were…
Priceless.

Grandma strapping in

Taylor strapping in

Andrew jumping

Taylor [...]

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First, I want to thank Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry for entrusting me with her blog today. Beth is a shining light in the blogosphere, and I am so blessed by her friendship.
Now, onto today’s post:
Summer is in full swing. The sun is hot, hot, hot. The grandkids are out of school. So [...]

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