Category: Parenting
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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…
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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 %…
Raising teens again! 