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Spring Cleaning
Wednesday morning I woke up at 5:30 am in a panic. I had to get up and write because I had just one year left of this decade. I needed to start now. Of course, I didn’t get up. I … Continue reading
O’Christmas Tree, O’Christmas Tree
I love Christmas trees. Christmas trees not only symbolize all the beauty and hope of the season but are reminders of Christmases past. I have three trees this year. Maybe more if I have to count the tiny tabletop trees. … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, childhood memories, everyday life, life, relationships, transitions
Tagged Christmas, life, love, memories, ornaments
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Part 9: Road Trip!
After the movers came and went, after we said our good byes to neighbors and friends, after we spent one last night in the house where we had lived for twenty-one years, we put the dogs in the truck, secured … Continue reading
Posted in childhood memories, Family, marriage, moving, relationships, transitions, travel
Tagged family, marriage, memories, relationships, transitions, travel
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Part 8: A Truly Empty Nest
A note: I wrote this before we closed on the house but never got to posting it. The next few posts should bring us up-to date. Stay tuned. Leaving home is what young people do. Children become teenagers, dreaming of … Continue reading
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Tagged family relationships, friends, memories, moving, transitioning households
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In a drawer of the handmade spice rack that Sis in Law gave us for a wedding present is a bird nest that my girls found almost twenty years after a Santa Ana (wind storm). The nest had blown from … Continue reading