A fragment of a grocery shopping list… this is probably about 25-30 years old. It’s her handwriting. The address label is her mother’s… also about 25-30 years old. I keep these fragments tucked into a drawer… too insignificant for a page in scrapbook, or it’s own “sleeve” in a photo album, but because her handwriting [...]
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So, you’re wondering what I got in my Altoids Tins? This particular one came from the one who loves green — which explains the green highlighter used to write my treasured “Gift Tag.” He even borrowed a little ingenuity from this Origami Master Brother to make an “envelope” that was a shirt — without a tie, because [...]
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Christmas break is over. Thank goodness for the pot of steel cut oats waiting on the stove this morning…warm oats, warm tea, to get us through this cold, cold transition day.
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And I’m sure you don’t even know it. I saw this picture on the internet… Source: modernhepburn.tumblr.com via SusieJ on Pinterest and for some reason, I thought of you. You smiling. You young. No, you don’t look like him…in a few ways you do. But this is your essence. I can still remember [...]
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Yes… it is days before Christmas, and there is another party is scheduled at my house in just a few days, and no, we cannot squeeze yet another event into our busy days. My husband was good enough to mail the stack of Christmas cards for his family – mine was not. Yet, despite all the [...]
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Would I still be able to dig out a treasure in our Superman Gratitude Journal? Now that the boys are getting older, would their little lists still have “melt-your-heart” treasures like “getting my brother out of the crib?” or “running through the dust when Dad blows the leaves with the leaf blower?” Yet, I found [...]
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I’m busy working on creating my Christmas gifts calendars and cards from the year, and I ran across this picture. Their faces are perfectly in-sync with whatever is secret is tumbling out of his mouth… and he, with that grin, seems to know exactly what’s going to be said before it even comes out. I [...]
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At the high school auditorium, we sit together, by ourselves, without our children. Well… one is at the front of the stage, violin in hand, tuning his instrument to get ready for the concert. The three of us are together, seperated by a sea of people, a stage and protocol. It’s just the 3 of [...]
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During our tour of Napa last summer, we thought it might nice to join a wine club so that we could receive brand new California wines on our doorstep. So that we could remember those Osyters we had, in the morning, as we were driving back to San Francisco, on dreary, blah days, just like [...]
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