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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9 years ago this morning our world forever changed when our first grandchild, Taylor Jane, was born… everything was magnified a zillion times.  The joy.  The beauty.  The power of life.  The first moment I saw Taylor, with her raven hair and perfect face… I fell in love.  What we would see come from that [...]

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29 years ago this morning, at 10:07 am, our little baby girl, Jane Hillary… who would forever be “our baby,” came into our world. Every moment since has been filled with laughter, delight, loveliness and LOVE!
Back in “those day” it wasn’t common to learn the gender of your baby before the actual moment, so [...]

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Yesterday, Barry and I took our granddaughter, Taylor, on a little birthday outing.  It didn’t seem to matter to Taylor that her 8th birthday happened in JANUARY… and the promised outing came in SEPTEMBER.
Ah… time. It has a way of checking off minutes and days and weeks and months.
But back to Taylor’s special day.  She [...]

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Today is my Dad’s birthday.  This photograph was taken in July 1975… my Dad navigating his boat… one of the things he most loved to do.
He would have been 81 years old today.
He died in August 1975 at age 47, just weeks after this priceless photograph was taken.
There is not one moment of those 34 [...]

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31 years ago today, my world was blessed beyond blessed with the arrival of my little girl.  We would call her Audrey.
Audrey was a name that both her Dad and I loved, but there were some who tried to convince me that she would grow up to hate her name. I almost caved to these [...]

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Today is my mom’s birthday.  She is 84 years young!  I picked her up at around noon and Jane and I took her to a cute little restaurant for lunch… just the 3 of us.  She ordered a burger, which is unusual for her because she is the original picture of health.  You know, chicken [...]

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Today is my mother-in-law’s birthday. She would have been 90.
Flo looked forward to birthdays more than anyone else I’ve ever known. And not just her birthday. She loved to celebrate everyone’s special day with the joy that a birthday brings. Flo loved to throw a good birthday pah-ty (there was [...]

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Dawg and Libragirl both gave me this nifty award.  I love them both so very much (even without the award!).  And today… even more special… it’s Libragirl’s birthday. Head on over and give her a BIG birthday shout-out!
Now it’s my turn to award 7 bloggers whose blogs I, well… love. There are so many of [...]

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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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