Category: blog
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911
When my kids were little I never had to call 911, but instead of doing that one time when our youngest, Doug, got a compound fracture of his arm I raced to the hospital, breaking the speed limit. But that’s another story! Later when he had 2 little kids ( The teens now living with…
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Dejavu all over again! 😀
Ten years ago I took the now 17 & 19 year old granddaughters to Carl’s Jr. playland once a week when I watched them 3-5 days a week. They loved it. Back then I only had a flip phone so I visited with moms & dads & grandparents, read a book or wrote things. Now…
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Grandma, Do you have a job?
Oh boy! Where did I start? Well, first I told the 8 year old granddaughter that my mission right now, my job, is taxi driver. I’m blessed to drive the 17 year old back & forth 4 x a day to 3 different schools for classes & Volleyball & the 19 year old to her…
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Photo albums galore!
I’ve had a love of taking photos since I had a Brownie box camera 📸 in 3rd grade in 1960. I started making up albums around age 12, & I love chronicling our lives, so I have AT LEAST 50 albums. Today I was going through some for our 17 year old granddaughter’s Senior night…
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Insecurities
Way back when in 1969 when I was a Senior in High school, one day in a class we were supposed to be ready to say what we wanted to be in the future. Even back then, I felt pressure to say something awesome like get a college degree, but even though I was the…
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Grandma Geri, Graham cracker, Grams or Grandma. ☺️👵
When I first became a step grandma I was only 32 and our last child was born 6 months later, so I preferred to be called Grandma Geri! I just didn’t feel old. 😅 As time went on, finally after many years, some grandkids started calling me Graham cracker or Grams and I loved that!…
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I need 2 days notice, or do I?
Years ago, when parenting teens, when they came to us with last minute requests like spending the night at a friends, I always said “Hold on, I need at least 2 days notice.” And I see now that was because we had 6-7 kids at the time, with busy school, sports, dance, gymnastics, scouts etc,…
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The value of 20 year old towels!
So, after many years I found myself in a competition with no one; trying to see how long our original master bath towel set would last! Call me crazy if you want. I understand. Anyway, before long 20 years had gone by. Now certainly I had bought and used other towels, but I wanted to…
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Empty nest suddenly not empty. :)
If you would have told me 20 years ago that after having our empty nest for 20 years we would be having two teen granddaughters living with us I may have said “Let’s move to Costa Rica or anywhere!” But, let me tell you, it’s a tremendous blessing, or at least it is 98 %…
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Row your boat
At night the body of clouds advancing higher up the sky smothers the whole quiet gulf below with an impenetrable darkness, in which the sound of the falling showers can be heard beginning and ceasing abruptly—now here, now there. Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a…
Raising teens again! 