Category Archive: Family

Oct
13

Watching the parade of life

“If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.”  Mike Ditka People watching is one of my all-time favorite pursuits. It is just like watching a parade. On a recent long and rather uninteresting road trip, my husband and I stopped at a diner where I got to watch a virtual smorgasbord …

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May
12

Motherly advice on Mother’s Day

Kids may actually listen to moms one day a year, on Mother’s Day, but who is counting? Well, every mom that is who, and for the record, we moms have memories like elephants. So listen up offspring. Number one, just because your mother said you do not need to get her a card, flowers, or …

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Apr
07

Jokester gene runs in the family

On April Fool’s Day, I foolishly assumed that I would survive the day unscathed because the offspring who used to play the practical jokes around here have ‘flown the nest’.   Not to be. Grandson Halen came running across the yard to tell me there was a big red fox at the edge of the …

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