Category: blog
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A true melting pot
It’s amazing to reflect on how many nationalities are represented in my birth family, my family, grandkids & great grandkids! My mom’s side is Norwegian & German & my dad’s side is Scottish & Irish. A British Customs agent once rolled his eyes at me when I stated this due to his question. He said-“Ma’am,…
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Elderly Schmelderly
Yes, I know that’s not a word, but it fits perfectly here. ☺️ You see, last week hubby went to a wonderful doctor, and when he came home & handed me the discharge pages I almost choked/laughed, fainted and called the clinic! Why? Because TWICE in those 2 pages, this guy had written “ELDERLY wife”…
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Three generations in the house. ❤️
There’s a new little 5# baby in our home, but really there are 5 generations in her line! My mom is 94, I’m 72, our youngest son is 39, ( Can you say first time Grandpa Doug?) the new mom is 20 and baby Aria is 6 days old. Aria is # 55 of my…
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Teens, 20s & 30 somethings
I’ve been VERY busy the past few weeks, but it’s mostly fulfilling! We, along with excellent party planner daughter visiting from Cal hosted a baby shower for the 20 year old. It’s getting exciting! July will be a very busy month. She’s due July 8 but I thought it would be awesome to have a…
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Go go go stop!
Ok. Since August of 2022 my mission was to get the two older teens to 3 different schools, 5 different jobs, dozens of High school volleyball practices, games and events, special errands, numerous friends and a few miscellaneous things. I was more than happy to do it, in between enjoying my other activity, 2 other…
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Food, food & more food.
Soo, as I have mentioned, our two resident teen granddaughters love to be in the kitchen cooking up innovative dishes. But now they both work two part time jobs involving, you guessed it, food! One has the coffee hut gig, which has many food options, then at night she is a server at a brand…
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Water water everywhere!
I don’t think about water much, but after one of our hot water heaters started leaking last week I’ve had lots of “Interactions” with it! (Think about mopping up every few hours even after the restoration company extracted it from carpets, because there is a pinhole leak in a pipe and new heaters won’t be…
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Kitchen chaos
When I was raising kids, my kitchen was kinda small, so we only had 2-3 people cooking at the same time, max. But the past 20 years I’m blessed with a large chef’s kitchen! One of the best parts is being able to visit with people while I’m cooking. Now I can do my thing…
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Live in chefs!
Oh my. In my 50 years of being an adult, I’ve never had 2 awesome chefs in residence but that’s what happens when you are blessed to have sweet granddaughters living with you! I have loved cooking and baking and all things related to being a homemaker, and have cooked every cuisine you can imagine,…
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Oops, the turkey thawed!
Living in Alaska means that every November I put the frozen Thanksgiving turkey on the deck, because, as you can guess, it’s COLD out there! BUT, this year, after 2 weeks, I realized that it had been thawing for 3-4 days because we had a “Heat wave” of 34-37 degrees F.. Sooo, Monday I put…
Raising teens again! 