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Category: Family
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"Where are you going, my little one, little one? Where are you going, my baby my own? Turn around and you're two, turn around and you're four, turn around and you're a young girl going out of the door." This song (originally sung by Harry Belafonte) is the background music to my life these days as…
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A new weekend is knocking on the door and I feel like I just said goodbye to the last one…it was a whole month's worth of faces, fun, and emotion packed into a few short days. It was a weekend of family and friends - Tom's brother Kenny and his wife Cathy drove in from Wichita, Kansas on Thursday. Their future…
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That's what we were all wondering when Daniel carried the baby squirrel home, curled up in a little ball in the palm of his hand. He had taken the dogs (and Frankie) for a walk. Near the curve, Frankie spotted something in the woods. Daniel and the dogs went to investigate, but before Daniel…
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I have been ALL over the world this month…virtually, anyway. First, my friend Rae tromped all over New Zealand with her husband for two weeks, sharing her experiences and photos with all of us on Facebook as much as she could. Here she is inside of a maoreki boulder. And of course,…
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After 26 years, just one look says a lot… "You're annoying the hell outa me, but I love you anyway…"
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Corned beef, potatoes, cabbage and carrots…Irish soda bread and pistachio cheesecake…St. Brendan's-spiked coffee…a deck hugged by green treetops at sunset…friends, new and old, all ages…Irish music drifting through the air…softly…magically. That's St. Patrick's Day at the Monahan's. In my Heinz 57 genetic make-up, there must be some Irish, because I sure feel lucky to be…
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Scenes from my parents' busy backyard this past weekend…it seems like THE place to be…at least for red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, 'possums, and squirrels…
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I kissed my baby goodbye outside of the Lufthansa terminal in Houston on Friday. A yucky cold rain fell on us all the way to the airport. I think it helped to subdue the girls' excitement, but couldn't wash it away completely. I could sense it bubbling in my van all the way there,…
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I love my family. I need to get that out there right away. I love having them around, love the chattering, the bickering, the company. That being said…I have REALLY been looking forward to today all week…Kendall in Spain, and Tom and Daniel backpacking in Big Bend National Park…to coming home from Houston and having the…
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More from this past weekend in Houston… First…my parents are kitten-sitting! Fifi is my nephew's kitten (his girlfriend named it.) While he's in Montana working, Fifi's hanging out with Mama and Daddy. It only took a few 'here kitty-kitty"s for her to venture from her hiding place and check me out. Before too long, I was scratching…
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