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Category: Family
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We’re back from our family trek to the other side of the country – we traveled to Montana with stops in Kansas, Colorado, and Yellowstone along the way. As much as I love Texas, I have to admit that driving for miles and miles through other parts of our country, watching the changing…
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"We cannot live only for ourselves; a thousand fibers connect us to those who are present and those throughout the generations." -Violet George I think we are all related. Not just connected, but actually related. Family. A few years after I started researching my genealogy, I wrote a speech…
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I’m going to see my Daddy this weekend. He’s a little older now than when this article was written – he’s the cute highway patrolman standing on the left. My sister Brenda found this a few months ago in some of our grandmother’s things. By the time I was born, he…
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"Happy Anniversary," Tom told me this morning. I had to stop and think – what anniversary? It’s not August or September. Then I realized it was the 13th – a Friday the 13th. We got married on a Friday the 13th. It was supposed to be on September 25th,1982, the one-year…
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TG is sleeping. She had her wisdom teeth removed this morning. I have the kitchen timer set so that every twenty minutes, I pull a frozen gelpack from the freezer and wrap it in a towel. I gently lift her head to remove the warm one, then rest the coldest one on the opposite side…
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Here are pictures of my kids. The first is of my oldest son Tommy, newly graduated from college, and my ‘baby’, Kendall. The next is of Tommy, his best friend, and my younger son, Daniel (in the middle, appropriately since he is the middle child.) Daniel just finished his first year of college.…
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