I will be 62 years old this year. This shouldn’t be a momentous occasion. It’s not 67 – when one is eligible for your full share of the Social Security you’ve been paying into for 50 years. It’s not 65 – when you can get on Medicare. It’s not 60 – when you’ve crossed into…
Read MoreThe Humiliation Never Ends…
Does anyone else every lie in bed reliving your most humiliating moments? The memories don’t plague me often, but when they do, I can really question how I ended up in charge of a nursing program and owning my own business. On a positive note, the memories definitely keep me humble which I found encourages…
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Surrounded by Stuff
It all started when we asked a friend to come pick up his things from our garage. We had no idea that this would remove our convenient excuse for why the garage was a mess…that had someone spilled into every corner of the house. But there it was…this newly clean corner in the garage, that…
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My Father’s Voice and My Mother’s Legs
Genetics…love them or hate them…they play a part in who you are. Some people are blessed by heredity, born of beautiful people with beautiful genes (which most likely translates to beautiful jeans also.) Some of us were not blessed with genetics, sensing that while we may have picked up some of our parents best traits,…
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“Have I handed you your balls yet?” and other inappropriate questions to ask at church
2018 is a wrap. We have put away the Christmas tree and deflated our yard full of minions. The only reminders left of the Christmas season is my wealth of holiday-themed hand soaps, a few remaining candles and a freezer half full of homemade candy. We have few traditions in our family but one has…
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And that’s why we can’t have nice things…
We raised three boys. That should be enough of an explanation for the title but I feel like I should probably give you a little more than that. I’ve already written about our house fire (Read Here) spurred on by a candle, a stack of newspaper and an emotional girlfriend. I don’t believe I have…
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What Does Depression Look Like?
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about Suicidal Ideation. I had someone ask me what my depression looked like when I was at my worst. I had to stop and think because I’m not sure what it looked like from the outside since I was experiencing it on the inside. Here is as…
Read MoreOur Day at Juvenile Court
Juvenile Court – the mear mention makes most of us think – “not my kid!” Yep…I thought so too. I never expected to raise a law-breaker. I expected that all of my boys would make mistakes, but none that would drag us before a judge…especially by the time they were 8 years-old. Life doesn’t always…
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5 reasons I’m glad I was done raising kids before Instagram
I raised three boys…before social media became the norm. Facebook was around when the kids were teens but it was primarily used to hold my pictures…as I seemed to have missed the Scrapbooking craze. I have one. It’s not finished. I started it fifteen years ago. There are many positives I see in utilizing social…
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Memories of our Feline Foe
Eric and I toy around occasionally with getting a cat. We’ve had several cats during our marriage but have been a catless home for about the last five years. After I read this old blog post, I’m rethinking the whole cat idea… The Connection between Lack of Sleep, Weight Loss and my Cat Let me…
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Mothering, Marriage and Menopause 