Water retention is an ongoing problem with me and I often take my rings and watch off, put my watch band through the rings, then shut the clasp and put them in my travel jewelry box for safe keeping. So I didn’t think anything of it when I was shopping and subconsciously ran my [...]
Being just a hop, skip and a jump away from May is just unreal. Time doesn’t seem to keep a steady pace; it either speeds or crawls … or both. It crawls when you are waiting for something, speeds when you have a deadline. Most of my winter was spent waiting; waiting for appointments, waiting [...]
My writing these days has been to the diary of a support group I’ve found that has been set up for people with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. It seems like that (that being the disease) has been on my mind a lot the last four months (I wonder why) and I haven’t felt it was appropriate [...]
I doubt it has even crossed your mind to wonder what was wrong with the van … but you still get to hear “the rest of the story”. The van had a little doohickey that needed adjusted. The man called us and said we could either get a new part that would be around $200 [...]
I’ve been hearing some of the words of the following poem in my mind today. It’s been one of my favorite poems since I was just a little girl. The other thing that has been in my mind is a picture of Albrecht Durer’s Praying Hands. Mother gave me a small copy of this the [...]
I was honored to be highlighted today on Grandma’s Brief’s, an awesome blog by Lisa, a grandmother with a successful blog full of information to do with being grandparents. Actually, it is full of information for everyone and has links to just about anything you can imagine to do with a family. I love blogs [...]
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My poor man says this whole experience of getting a total knee replacement is “Less than fun” and he’s not looking forward to having the other leg done in two weeks. The link to total knee replacement is a virtual surgery and gives you the role of being the surgeon. It’s kind of interesting. It [...]
Dear Sherry, I sat in the car looking at this beautiful view of the ocean last week while baby Kai napped and the rest of the group went for a tour of a light house. It gave me a quiet moment to think of you, my dear friend for the past 30 years. I wanted [...]
This is the beautiful bouquet of flowers sent to me by www.spotamom.com . I love them and as you can see, they have really brightened my day. We took this picture of them on the table of our motor home. Remember … you get a 15% discount if you want to send flowers to [...]
My dad had a lot of physical discomforts throughout his life which, for the most part, he suffered in silence with … except for one which I apparently have in common with him: The Itch. It starts out with one aggravating spot that I try to ignore … but I eventually give in to the [...]
