Category: Parenting
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My Christmas List
Every year untold parents face one of the more difficult questions a child can ask. Is Santa Claus real? There is plenty of evidence that the jolly old guy is toiling away at the North Pole, updating lists, tending reindeer and supervising the elves. Despite the overwhelming evidence, children everywhere, paying closer attention to us…
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Bookworm
One day when I was four years-old, I said to my Mom, “Will you teach me to read?” Mom sat down in the chair pictured, with me on her lap, and taught me to read about Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff and all their friends. At that time the chair looked a little different with…
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Punkin
Many of my earliest memories center around my sister. She was nearly ten years old when I made my debut and according to family stories, she was elated to have a second real baby to care for. In many ways she was a second mother to me through those formative years. It was her prickly…
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Help!
I am a Type I Diabetic. Some of you may already know this, but there are plenty just getting to know me who did not know before now. In my many years of dealing with Diabetes I’ve found that many friends and acquaintances don’t know a whole lot about the disease and are reticent to…
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Grandma’s Doilies – Part III
I wish I could tell you more about Grandma Sophie, but the truth is, I know very little in the whole scheme of things. I am a little jealous of people that have the pleasure of knowing their grandparents, especially if they know them as adults. One of my grandfathers died shortly before I was…
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Grandma’s Doilies – Part II
August 16, 2022 I’ve been sucked down the rabbit hole that is Ancestry.com again. This time I was surprised with a 100 year-old picture that has whispers of my mother’s and my faces. Before today I had never seen what Grandma Sophie looked like as a young lady. I have an old photograph of her…
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Friends
I made a new friend a couple of weeks ago! I never would’ve expected to find someone so familiar in the dog food aisle, but I’m so glad I did. The dog food aisle? How does that happen? To be frank, I can’t remember exactly . . . It may have been me that made…
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Responsibility
June 28, 2022 Off the top of your head, can you remember what happened five weeks ago today? How about the name of the person responsible? Many of you may remember the date of the Uvalde, TX Massacre but I doubt more than a handful of you know the name of the young man that…
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Discipline That Counts
When I was little, my brother and I were disciplined by our mom quite often. She was a staunch believer in the tenet “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” I’ve had my mouth washed out with soap, spanked by hand, wooden spoon and belt, whatever was convenient. Each time I would cry and say I…