No-one. No-one. No-one loved her birthday like Flo loved her birthday.

Flo at her 87th birthday party!
Everything stopped on Flo’s birthday and everyone celebrated the day. It had to be the day… March 9th. If you stopped over the day before, the day after, or anywhere around the day, it simply didn’t count. [...]

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My mother-in-law loved necklaces.  Long, short, bold, elegant, colorful, interesting, subdued.  Flo loved them all and could wear them with wonderful confidence.  When Flo died, Barry and I carefully removed her necklace holder from behind her bedroom door and we took it to our home… necklaces and all.  Barry carefully attached it with its two [...]

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Just before Thanksgiving, when still in the food shopping, preparation and house cleaning mode, I wrote about being drawn to the special drawer where I still keep many of my late mother-in-law’s special things. This drawer is the bottom right drawer of a white wicker 7-drawer bureau that belonged to Flo.  Barry and I bought [...]

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I wrote in my previous post that Flo, my mother-in-law, loved boys.  This is the proverbial understatement.
But I always suspected that somewhere in her psyche was lurking the mother of a daughter.  I often teased her about this.  “Come on, Mom, you know you would’ve loved a daughter,” I would say to her.  But if [...]

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Our youngest grandchild, Dylan Joseph, turns ONE today.  It seems impossible that all those moments, all those days, all those seasons have turned into one whole year.
Dylan is our 9th grandchild and our 7th grandson.  Yes, there are 2 girls (each 8 years old), and then 7 boys in a row… and the boys are [...]

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Barry’s birthday was one of the nights that Barry and I enjoy most of all.
A celebration. All the kids. All the grandkids.
And an angel.
It has been rainy and unseasonably cool in New England this week, but Barry’s “back deck” birthday party went beautifully well. It didn’t rain. It was warm enough [...]

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I believe in angels.
I always have.
I believe that when a person or animal passes… the aura or spirit of that being remains even as the body and soul head onward to the place where that being’s deity or divinity exists.  And I believe that angels do have the energy to make us feel them… and [...]

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I know it’s not Wordless Wednesday yet…

But I just had to post this photo of my 9 grandchildren sitting outside my mother-in-law’s (their great-grandmother’s) favorite restaurant, Jack’s, in Warren, Rhode Island. It was taken this past Sunday evening, the night before Flo’s 90th birthday.
Barry and I first went to Jack’s more than 33 years [...]

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Two dancing butterflies.  Two playful birds.
A purple balloon.  A yellow balloon.  A pink balloon.
A star.
Special stories that have created our earthly bonds with heaven… and the angels who watch over us. Precious tangible things that mean so much to us.
Our angels are always around us.  Near us.  With us.  They live in our hearts and [...]

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Angels come in all shapes and sizes. They visit when we need them, and sometimes they visit when we least expect it. But there is always a sense of hope when they stir the air.
This is so,too, with the tiniest of angels. The sometimes forgotten angels. The angels taken far too [...]

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