You’re part of the Sandwich Generation if you are actively involved in the lives/interests/activities/care of your children and elderly parents. Like… sandwiched in the middle. In a good way.
You’re part of the Club Sandwich Generation if you’re involved in the lives/interests/activities/care of aging parents, adult children and grandchildren. Kind of like adding [...]

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While Audrey (aka Mommy) is attending the BlissDom ‘10 Conference, I’ve been helping out with the kids.
And you know what happens while the cat’s away and the kiddies come to Grandma’s to play…

Let’s just say the kittens and I have been having a little bliss of our own. We’ll call it WhipDom ‘10 and [...]

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Yesterday morning, I stopped in at Audrey’s house before heading to visit my Mom at her rehab center.  (She is supposed to come home today… fingers crossed!)
What I didn’t expect, though, was… if all bets are on grandparents, the Comment Trifecta of Grandmotherhood.
First, while I helped 2-year old Benjamin spread cream cheese on his bagel, [...]

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My little grandson Benjamin, who is turning 3 in April, is the sweetest little guy imaginable.  He can be described as pure joy.  Through genetics, birth order (he’s the 3rd of 4 brothers) or sheer necessity, Benjamin sees the wonder in everything.  Benjamin often asks his Mommy to call me just so he can say, [...]

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I was up early this morning, just early enough to see the first rays of sunshine shimmering over the tops of the trees down the hill, across the railroad tracks and on the far side of our little harbor.  It was very still… this new morning.  I had decided to get up early to attempt [...]

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My mother-in-law’s greatest gifts were gifts from her kitchen.  She cooked with joy.  She baked with joy.  She gave with joy.  These were pure gifts, from both her hands and her heart… and now from heaven.
Last Saturday evening, I was skyping with my granddaughter Taylor and she asked if Grandpa and I could help her [...]

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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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I remember the days when I was a young Mommy with 4 young kids, and every once-in-a-while I got to spend an afternoon with one child… One-on-One. Most times this little time-gift wasn’t planned. It just happened because it just did. And that time-gift wasn’t about going somewhere and doing something, but [...]

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My husband Barry is a very athletic guy.  I will admit here that his athletic prowess is one of the things that initially caught my eye.  Well, that and his great legs in those shorts the first time I saw him.  But getting back on point, Barry can do just about anything when it comes [...]

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We all know, and we’ve all heard, the stories of grandparents and how they actually think they can “spoil” their grandchildren in any way, shape, time or fashion.
Who do they think they are, anyway?
(Oh, wait.  That’s right.  I am one.)
And I’m of the not-so-humble and categoric grandparent opinion that the rite of passage into grandparenthood [...]

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