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Category Archives: Family
Thursday Doors
Over the past week, I collected this set of doors which led us to culinary delights. 🙂 My husband and I celebrated an anniversary this week, and I took an idea from my Maine blogging friend, Laurie, Hinterlands. We celebrated all … Continue reading
Ancestry DNA
When I was growing up and able to watch TV, I saw families depicted as the characters on Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, or Leave it to Beaver. Dad went off to work every day in his suit and … Continue reading
MIA
Missing in Action can mean a lot of things. In this case, it refers to my Uncle John, the youngest of my Mother’s four brothers. John was 19 years of age when he entered the service in the spring of 1943. … Continue reading
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead: Short days ago, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, … Continue reading
Ma Bell
Just writing Ma Bell makes me smile. My husband spent his entire corporate career working for her and has the watch to prove it. 🙂 He put in a good day’s work, and she paid him with cash and benefits. … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged AT&T, Cell phone, Land line, Ma Bell, Smart Phone, Southwestern Bell, Telephone service, Telephones
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Happy Thanksgiving
Whether your house is overflowing with family and friends, a few have gathered together, or you are enjoying the day by yourself, have a good one. Remember, some families are like the Waltons or the Reagans, but most of us have … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged Charles Schultz, Charlie Brown, Happy Thanksgiving, Snoopy, Thanksgiving
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Veterans Day
Today is a day on the calendar that you either feel deep in your soul or it is just another Friday. To me it allows a day of reflection on the sacrifice that our armed forces volunteers and their families have made … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged Air Force, Armed Services, Army, Marines, Navy, Patriotism, Sacrifice, Veteran's Day
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In-Laws
There are a lot of jokes about in-laws, but I’ve never needed the humor because I married into the absolute best family ever. For an only child from the Northeast to marry a young man from Kansas who had eight living siblings … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged Cancer survivor, Circle of life, Family, Feel good story, Life, Loved ones, Open heart surgery, Relationships
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It’s the Sugar
For a woman who grew up next door to a candy store, sugar has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember including when I’d return a glass soda bottle for 2 cents and could pick out … Continue reading
Posted in Boomers, Family
Tagged Aspartame, Equal, Karen Bentley, NutraSweet, Pyure, Splenda, Stevia, Sugar, Sugar in the diet, Sugar-free institute, Sugar-free miracle diet, SweetNLow, Trivia
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Ice Skating
One of the items on my bucket list was to go ice skating. I spent a lot of Sundays skating when I was growing up. I would take the bus to skate on a local pond or I’d go to a … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Quilting
Tagged Bucket List, Ice skating, Portsmouth NH, Puddle Dock, Quilting, Sewing, Strawbery Banke
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