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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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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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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The sweets and baking arts are not my calling, though I enjoy  baking a wedding cake  for a crowd  because of  the challenge.   But through the years, I have latched on to a few, and I mean a few, recipes which have become known as “Family Favorites.”
One is Fruit Pizza.
Please do not mistake this [...]

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Read Tristan’s birthday post from last year here.   I bawled when I wrote it and he may have sniffled a bit when he read it.   We’ll keep it cool this year.
Today Tristan, my first son-in-law ever, turns 28!
Happy Birthday, Tristan, superb son-in-law and waaaaay above average husband to my daughter, Stephanie.   Happy [...]

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Guini is three!
Last night we celebrated Guini-poo.   She was in ponytails wearing a Little Mermaid dress with sparkly pink shoes when she graciously opened all her presents, layed the clothes aside without much thought, oohed and aahed over the fun stuff and then got the pink, shimmery bike with the glittery festooning and [...]

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Dave, on his blog, talks about the 27 years of movies, but the very first movie, the one we watched at a place he was housesitting on May 26, 1981, the movie he invited me over to view on TBS - while I  was unaware it was a “date, but was without a doubt, retrospectively, [...]

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Dave’s birthday post from last year can be seen here.
Happy Birthday, Dave, son-of-my-heart.   Happy birthday to a man who is both steady, worthy of trust and wildly abandoned and pliable and in the hands of God.   Happy day to some one who is youthful and adventurous, with ears to hear the Spirit [...]

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