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Category: Family
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"What do you want to be for Halloween, Daniel?" "A snow leopard." A snow leopard? What the heck is a snow leopard? Daniel found me a picture. I gathered materials and stayed up until 3 am the night before his pre-school Halloween party hot-gluing black strips of felt (and occasionally my fingers) onto a white sweat suit,…
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BUSY! That's how today felt, but looking back on it from this end, it wasn't any more full than other days – I certainly didn't get any more accomplished. It was the same old Wednesday routine – work at home, exercise, shuttle Kendall to school, take care of dogs and guinea, job #1, lunch, shuttle…
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When I was little, it was horse books and statues, rocks, shells, and Liddle Kiddles. A few years later, I was drawn to Nancy Drew books, candles, shot glasses, spoons,and all things related to cats. I also have more than a person needs of Texas, Civil War, and old Tarzan books. I have crosses, nutcrackers, beer steins, pewter wizards, and…
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Sunday afternoons are made for soccer – hours and hours of glorious sunshine. It felt like summer again today. My umbrella and cherry snowcone helped me cool off a little, but I was still sweating on the sidelines watching TG and the Cosmos whoop up on the other team (6-1…TG scored one and almost scored two others.) …
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Okay, I admit Charly's eyes look a little creepy in this picture…I don't have a good photo editing program yet. But his intense look – the watching, waiting, full of hope and faith that I'll head to the front door any minute to go on our walk – is irresistible. This is…
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It's only Wednesday, but these last few days have been so long and hectic that Sunday seems like years ago. That's when I took my own advice about slowing down… I spent a few hours with Daniel doing nothing but laugh at his new Flight of the Conchords Season 1 DVD (his birthday present)…
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What a weekend! Daniel was home AND I went to my first University of Texas football game, courtesy of our friends Mary Kay and Joe, whose son Ryan is part of the UT Band. What an experience…Texas Memorial Stadium was a sea of burnt orange (except for a few splashes of yellow…the brave University…
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Here's a rare picture of me with all of my siblings – Brenda's holding me, Donnie is lying behind us, and Buster, the big brother of us all, is on the right. Yesterday was Buster's birthday – it's hard for me to imagine he would have been sixty-one. It's hard for me to imagine I'm now older by…
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I attended my first rock concert in about 1965…I was six when I saw the Herman's Hermits rocking the stage at the Houston Coliseum. Aunt Peggy took me, my sister Brenda who was fourteen, and another teenage girl, a co-worker's daughter. I was in love with Peter Noone (Herman) at the time. Brenda noticed…
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Tommy went to the University of North Texas in Denton. It was only four hours away but that was too far…I never got to see him, never really spent much time up there…although there was one year I drove him back on his birthday, treated him to dinner, and got a quick tour of the…
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