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Job Description: Mother

Heard this in church today, I just had to post it! MOM – JOB DESCRIPTION: POSITION : Mother, Mom, Mama, Mommy, Ma JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills! and be willing to...

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New Years Day

Something we used to do, but haven’t done in ages is have Uncle Arthur and Aunt Lynn over for New Years Day. We decided to change that in  2011. Their daughters Lois and Tracie came too with their families! I am sure Alex was just being polite, it’s hard to...

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Our Christmas Day

Christmas morning I was so fatigued from all the preparations made weeks beforehand and our late night on Christmas Eve, that I wondered how I was going to manage this day, and no matter how hard I tried, I was STILL in my pajamas when people started to arrive! At...

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Las Caravellas in 1992

The Santa Maria was a small nao, about 70 feet long, used as the flagship for the expedition for Christopher Columbus in 1492. She carried 40 men. Interest in reconstructing the Taylor Santa María started in the 1890s for the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. The 1892 reconstruction depicted the ship...

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Petra, Silas, and Chocolate Cake

Petra emailed me about a week ago that she would be coming in for a quick visit. I quickly informed mom on the news and suggested she make a chocolate cake, knowing Petra loves mom’s homemade cakes. Silas, who had never met Petra yet, was already considering  her a soul...

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Silas at Hopkins

Today Miranda and I took Silas into Baltimore to John Hopkins  Hospital for an exam. This was our second trip into the city this week, and our second hospital, the first was to take mom to Union Memorial for a stent procedure. We sure were amazed at Union Memorial, it...

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The Swing

Every year our yard turns into a carpet of yellow flowers. (Mom calls them weeds) Anyway it was a perfect day for Enric to make a tire swing for Silas… Silas waited patiently while he watched his daddy making a swing for him. Silas gives the swing a try… …but...

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It Was My Dad’s

Mom handed Cameron one day a car to play with. I wondered where it came from, as it was obviously old. She told me it was my dad’s. Since it was my dad’s, the very moment Cameron wasn’t interested in playing with it, I put it on my shelf, and...

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Christmas Eve 2008

Christmas Eve, to me, has always been a very special night of the holiday. As a child, it was filled with anticipation and magic. My parents and sister were great at convincing me that Santa was near. We left cookies for Santa, and I do believe Linda even made noises...

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Mom’s Birthday

Today is my mom’s birthday, so we filled the house with flowers… Happy Birthday Mom! Â

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Only You

Today is my mom and dad’s wedding anniversary. Since I love looking at their old courtship and early marriage photos, I thought to make a slide show for this occasion. I miss seeing them together now that dad is gone, but he sure is in our hearts in a big...

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Just a Mom

JUST A MoM? A woman, renewing her driver’s license at the Motor Registration office, was asked by the counter clerk to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. ‘What I mean is,’ explained the counter clerk, ‘do you have a job or are you just a ..?’...

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We Gather Together

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, with mom doing an outstanding job of making the house warm, cozy, inviting, and the food amazing. The weather was unusual, as the temperature hit nearly 80 degrees! Then clouds rolled in, the wind blew, and so many of the leaves that looked like they...

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Why I Love Mom!

This is one from my sister…Thanks, Linda! Mom and Dad were watching TV when Mom said, “I’m tired, and it’s getting late. I think I’ll go to bed.” She went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for the next day’s lunches. Rinsed out the popcorn bowls, took meat out of...

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An old memory…

“An old memory” that was the subject line from an email from my dearest and most long time friend ever, Myrna. I couldn’t imagine what it was going to be, except perhaps, something had happened to trigger a memory of times together so many years ago. Her dad was the...