friday night

When I was growing up and young I remember Friday night was fun. No school the next day,dinner out and sometimes family would be over to watch tv together or to play cards. I’d stay up as late as I could, then fall asleep in my grandmothers bed. When I was older, Friday night was [...]

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a love story

It seems several times a year you hear of an old couple passing away with each other, or within hours of each other.  Then there’s the Notebook, which I think most of the popularity was the fact that they were so in love, nothing separated them, not even passing away.  He really really loved her. [...]

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early pets

I have loved animals since I was a child.  I would always pick the stuffed animal missing an eye or a limb, I always wanted to take the unwanted things and just love and play with them.  Growing up I had cats and fish, while I still lived with my parents.  My parents had a [...]

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Holidays- when your parents are divorced

I wish I could say I was super excited about Christmas, but I can’t and I haven’t been for almost a decade, since I started coming home for Christmas again.  My parents divorced when I was 10.  After that Christmas was with all of us still, but at my grandparents house.  Then they both remarried [...]

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missing you

Does it ever get easier when you lose a loved one?  I ask myself this as it is about to come to 7 months since I lost my grandparents, the people who raised me. Is it harder or easier that they both passed within 11 days of each other?  Is it better to take all [...]

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One good thing out of the bad

When my grandparents passed a few months ago, I had not seen or talked to my uncle in over 5 years and before that it was probably 10 years.  When I was growing up and first remember being at my grandparents house all the time I used to love to hang out with him.  He [...]

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Giving-my lesson

When I was about six, my parents bought me this awesome puffy light pink Strawberry Shortcake winter coat.  I loved it.  I think this was around the same time as freaky freeze gloves- but I’m probably off on my years, because I’m bad about things running together.  Anyway, I was so proud of this coat [...]

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Where in the world

Back in the day before kids, when my husband and I were both employed full time, when I lived overseas and I had lots of extra spending money, I decided to surprise my grandparents for their 50th anniversary.  I booked the plane tickets, I rented a car and my husband and I were off.   It [...]

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incomplete

I had it all planned.  I plan everything.  I would take care of my grandparents forever and if anything happened to one of them, the other one would come and live in my home.  That’s what I always wanted to do, it’s what my husband also wanted me to do.  It seemed to me like [...]

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Here there and everywhere

Continuing on with some family history for my kids to some day read, today I’m talking travel, on both sides of the family. My side is not a bunch of travels, I sometimes wonder how our ancestors even made it here.  My mom has maybe been to 2 states besides her own, my dad has [...]

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