Where were you

Major events bring us together as a family, as a nation, as a world.We know they carry over through generations, since I know about the end of WWII and how my grandparents felt,or where my aunt was when JFK was assassinated. I’m new to close loss and since I lost both of my grandparents within [...]

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E & PB

Today I am thankful for peanut butter. I know that’s not profound or anything, but I just love peanut butter. My favorite right now is Skippy Natural with honey. I just love it. I toast an English muffin (a loaded fiber one) and then put the pb on and have it as a snack or [...]

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gone

Dear Nan, It’s been 10 months, 10 months since the ground dropped out from under me. 10 months since you left this world for a better place. I know you are happy and healthy and not in pain. Hopefully you don’t even think about the post-polio issues you spent so many years fighting. I just [...]

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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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2011 recap

I read this on Rage Against the Minivan blog and she read it on All & Sundry’s blog, it’s always good for some retrospect, so here we go: 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Flew overseas with my kids, volunteered at my oldest child’s school. I also went through [...]

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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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Longevity

I am thankful this year that I was able to know and love my grandparents for as long as I did and that both of my kids knew them.  I had many years with them and for that I am very happy and thankful.  I do get sad from time to time because I miss [...]

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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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Some more of my big (Pa)Dutch Irish family memories

I’m sitting here watching a dvr’ed my big fat gypsy wedding and eating some honey turkey ring bologna, drinking my nan’s lemon orange-ade and missing my grandparents like crazy.  You know I don’t ever know where to start, I want to record my memories and some family memories, so someday in case I forget (I’ve [...]

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Home Again

They say you can not go home again.  I went home again. When I went to college, I hated the place I was, so I ended up transferring and commuting to a school I liked.  So the first time I left home I moved to another country.  I was out of the country for 10 [...]

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