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Category: Family
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It rained today! Not just a sprinkling that left streaks in the dust on my van, but a real downpour that made Charly nervous and Max bark and Frankie want to come in the house. They had forgotten what this strange stuff was! It came down so hard that the tail-end of my van was washed clean!…
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A new week starts tomorrow – a week that is going to keep me running from 5 am Monday morning until 4:30 Friday afternoon. Not only do I have the normal weekly challenges, but we're going to go computer shopping (Kendall) and car shopping (me!) And on top of that, I've got the weekend's overflow…
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The Mosquito Man…the Pied Piper of my childhood. Why, oh why, was it so much fun to ride our bikes behind him, lost in the dense poisonous fog he sprayed throughout the neighborhood to kill the mosquitoes? But there's no doubt it was one of the highlights of summer…just the words "Mosquito Man" caught our…
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This day will come and go quickly, just like all the others this summer…this past year…the past eighteen years…but one thing is different: with the coming and going of this day, my baby will turn eighteen. I get to spend the day with her – we've spent more time together the last few weeks than…
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I've been floating along on a cloud the past two weeks, blissfully free of the normal structure in my life. My brain needed the break – it's good to shake up routine every now and then. The problem is I lost track of time and let a dear friend's birthday sneak up on me. I remembered…
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Two months after Tommy was born in 1985, my nephew Evan arrived. He's always been a bundle of energy…smart, inquisitive, restless….and at the same time family-oriented…devoted, loving, loyal. The restless part of his personality led him to Wyoming on a job; the loving part is going to keep him there. A day or two before the…
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Day 1 and Day 2 at the beach, I collected seashells and photographs. On Day 3, I collected thoughts… Tom is really just a little boy in a man's body… We were walking on the beach and a ghost crab dashed in front of us and plunged into a hole, trying to hide. Tom couldn't…
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When I was writing my last post, I wanted to link to video footage of my brother-in-law coaxing a confession from the murderer on the program “First 48.” I searched and searched without luck on the program’s website. Silly me..why didn’t I think of checking “You Tube”? My nieces and nephews had to tell me it…
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"Mas, mas!!" My sister-in-law Yadira was tickling her not-quite-three-year-old Kenny and every time she stopped, he begged for "mas" through his giggles. It amazes me to hear Kenny and his four-year-old sister Nicole switch from English to Spanish and back again in one breath. Nicole was playing a hopping game in the kitchen last…
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Sunday, I sat down in my in-law's sunroom, put my feet up, and finished reading a magazine I started two months ago. Four more are waiting their turn in my suitcase and I'm feeling really optimistic that I'll get through them this week, too. I'm also determined to read a book -or at…
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