Category: Family
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A Hell of a Lot of Work
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m not gonna lie. Moving from a place you’ve lived in for 13 years is a hell of a lot of work. And when you’re going to be 91 in a few weeks, it’s completely overwhelming and discombobulating. The good news for my mom is that she has 6 kids, 5 of… Read more
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When It’s Time for a Senior Living Community
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we get to retirement age, if we’re lucky enough to have parents who are still living, often times there begins a role reversal that is quite interesting for all involved. I wrote about it 18 months ago in a post linked here. Six months after that when I went to Wisconsin… Read more
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Road Trip to Wisconsin, Again
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRandy and I arrived in Manitowoc, Wisconsin yesterday after a very pleasant 3-day road trip. We’ll be here for nearly a month. It’s a nice time of the year to be up in Wisconsin, though it’s still colder than we’d like. But we’re here to help move my mom to a… Read more
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Grandkids Rule…
Reading Time: 5 minutesNow here’s a topic we don’t talk about much in this blog. Randy and I don’t have kids, so it follows, logically, that we’re completely devoid of and inexperienced with grandkids. My mom once had a T-shirt that said, “If I’d known grandkids were so much fun, I would have had them… Read more
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It’s a REALLY Small World, After All!
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy and I drove down to Naples last Friday to attend the weekly Happy Hour at my sister Lisa’s condo complex. There are only 82 units, about half are full-time residents, but it’s “season” in Florida so Happy Hour included a lot of snowbirds. We wouldn’t normally drive down to Naples for… Read more
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Oh, What a Night
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 1975 song by the Four Seasons starts out… Oh, what a nightLate December back in sixty threeWhat a very special time for meI remember, what a night My night was in mid-March back in sixty-five, but oh my, the memory of that night is vivid. And the night was, for me,… Read more
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Time For a Short Break
Reading Time: 3 minutesMom’s here. As I suspected and wrote about in last week’s blog, from the moment she arrived, she’s been much more relaxed. She vocalized at least 10 times today, as she lay in the sun, how she just couldn’t believe she was here. It was a beautiful day. She put on her… Read more
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My Mother is Coming
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve written often in this blog about my mother, how she and dad were so instrumental in shaping the woman I’ve become, how much I admire her, how she’s aging. It’s interesting to watch your parents age, isn’t it? Typically, at some point there is a gradual role reversal in terms of… Read more
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Don’t Look Back!
Reading Time: 4 minutesI know it’s Christmas Eve. I know readers might expect me to write something Christmasy. But the truth of the matter is that I’m just not feeling it. And when I’m not feeling it, nothing worth reading flows through my fingers to the keyboard. Just so no one thinks I’m a complete… Read more
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The Best Dad A Girl Could Have
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy dad made his permanent move to heaven (at least that’s the direction I think he went) 7 years ago. Dad worked hard, could fix anything, was tough on but loved his 6 kids, taught us right from wrong, was often as goofy as a big kid, and had a wicked,… Read more