Four Untitled Posts

My mind has been a mish mash of random thoughts every time I’ve come to my site to write.      I have four saved drafts  that I’ve never finished.   Here they are: #1:    Of all the beautiful Christmas traditions passed down through the years, Christmas carols have definitely got to be at the top of my [...]

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Hallelujah Chorus at a food court

Treat yourself to a wonderful five minutes that will put chills up and down your spine from a flash mob event that took place in a food court at a large shopping mall. I don’t know where this powerful event took place, but oh how I wish I would have been there to hear this [...]

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Happiness Comes In All Sizes

                                             I won’t need to narrate these pictures much … They show happy cousins at the beach.  I wish there were seven more here.    What a perfect day it was!   I was finally able to take off my stocking cap and yellow sweatshirt!    My blood is used to the hot desert.     There were some dare [...]

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Go Karts Never Lose Their Fun

  The Nordquists enjoy one last bit of fun on the Go Karts before heading home for the 4th of July celebration at Warren’s.  The pictures are self explanatory.   Luca barely qualified to go alone and I love how she is stretching her legs to reach the pedals.   She did a pretty good job; only [...]

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Ready for the 4th of July!

In spite of the rain, or maybe because of it,  we went to the Walmart in Aberdeen.     We took our shopping list: turkey slices (check), ham slices (check), eggs (check), milk (uh oh, don’t check), hot dogs (check), buns (check), potato salad (check), grated cheese (check) tortilla chips (check), black beans (check), produce (uh oh [...]

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Will You Be My Valentine?

The last two nights I have been making Valentine’s with two of my grand daughters.     It has been two nights full of giggles, glue, scissors, stickers, and paper and I think they have turned out remarkably well! Don’t tell a certain someone that this is his … I want it to be a surprise! I [...]

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Roughly 200,000 Stitches later … we now return to our scheduled programming

I made it!     I finished the last of the Christmas stockings (which was mine) at 1:00 am Christmas morning … just in time for the old man to fill it. My children all knew the joy of having a crocheted Christmas stocking that stretches and stretches on Christmas Eve and it was fun to hear [...]

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Thirty-Nine minus Twenty …

                   

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Thirty-Six Days ’til Christmas!

I wish I would have started sooner … I didn’t think about it until I was at my daughter’s in Auburn, Washington … towards the END of our trip!   She mentioned she wanted to make some “Things” for her family for Christmas so I helped her.   Then I started thinking of others in the family [...]

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Celebration Time …. Come on!

This is our celebration week … Our 43rd anniversary and Lynn’s 66th birthday.    I can tell we are older by how we celebrated.    Year’s ago our anniversaries included a huge vase of beautiful roses and a quiet, romantic dinner.    This year allergies have called a halt to the beautiful roses and heartburn has taken away [...]

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