Yesterday, October 9, on Hunter’s actual turning-four-years-old birthday, I was once again explaining how his mommy had been my baby and I remembered her turning four and how now he was her baby.  The concept is still mystifying to him in some ways, but he pondered, “So that’s why you love us both so much?”  Yes, [...]

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People born in 1959:
Jason Alexander
Tom Arnold
Marie Osmond
Simon Cowell
John McEnroe
Richie Sambora
Weird Al Yankovich
Val Kilmer
Lorri Morgan
Judd Nelson
Sherri Cramer
Lorri Teufal
Kevin Spacey
Clint Howard
and me

October the 8th birthdays
Matt Damon
Sigourney Weaver
R.L. Stine
Jesse Jackson
Chevy Chase
Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan)
Stephanie Zimbalist
and me

pictured: me at maybe 14 or 15 months old with my young, beautiful parents and brother Joe on the way…

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While I was in Missouri, Stormie-the-baby was in a serious, car-totaling accident.  Yes-her beloved Toyota Camry (which was getting about 38 miles per gallon in the city!!) got majorly crunched when she t-boned some crazy driver who decided to shoot out of a parking lot on a whim. 
Because there was very little reaction time, she really [...]

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Twenty-four years ago today, my one and only male-child-by-birth arrived.  Twenty-four years ago today, the baby whose birth caused me to both laugh and cry and kept me up all night long looking at him and loving him and breathing him in was born.  (See last year’s post here)
Today is Rocky’s birthday.
Happy Birthday, Rocky, intense [...]

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I have 8 nephews and 2 nieces among my siblings.  For the most part, we’ve never lived in the same city, so they are just these far-off adorables you get to see growing up through Christmas card photos and the every-other-year family gatherings.  They are a pretty likeable bunch!

Until March, we have never lived closer [...]

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I am visiting the parents where they retired 4 months ago in Springfield, MO.
Springfield is…interesting.   I have never seen so many junk stores, resale shops and on-going home rummage sales in my life.   This could be an antiquer’s haven - or perhaps just the biggest pile of junk in the heartland!
They also have [...]

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Here is what we learned today, just Guini and I having a little time to ourselves: gardening trumps Play-Doh time.   We  harvested 3 different types of peppers,  4  varieties of tomatoes, some cukes, some zucchini and handfuls of green beans.   Oh - and some wayward okra that seeded itself this year.   We [...]

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Happy Day to Dave and Tara who just celebrated 5 years of love and marriage on Saturday.   And to Rocky and Jovan who are celebrating 2 years tonight.
My kids have married so well.   It is their anniversaries, but I feel so blessed!
 

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Hey - check out a feature from today’s newspaper in Aberdeen, SD.   It’s all about my little brother, Joe who pastors there.   There is even an online clip of the building his congregation is renovating right now.  
They did a front page spread on him a few years ago with a big picture [...]

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I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck yesterday.   I’ve been, as they say, around the block a few times and here are a  some things I know:

If it is going to rain only one day this week-it will be the day they throw the Penny Saver in the driveway.
You spend a lot [...]

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