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At last! I am so happy to announce that my book about my daughter, "Raising Jennica", is now available for sale on Amazon. Yippee!

I recently wrote about my husband having this device installed in his chest but I don't believe I wrote many details. It's about the size of a cell phone and can be seen under the skin on the left side of the chest. There are wires that go from it throu

I remember the first time I saw you thirteen years ago. My sweet grandson. You were tiny. So tiny that I remember thinking your sweet little head, covered with dark curls, was no bigger than an orange. Your legs and arms were thin and your feet were ex

Just a note saying that's my hubby's surgery is tomorrow at 6AM. They are putting in a heart defibrillator. Mr. tough guy is worried this time and so I am too. Not so much because of this surgery itself but because of how weak his heart is. That's all.

I haven't posted a thing here forever so here goes. EXCITING Well it was very exciting for my grandchildren! President Obama spoke at the local community college today and because my daughter lives in that area she brought the children out to th

It snowed last night. It's been a gift of a winter so far. Little snow, warmer temperatures. No ice to give you a free and thrilling ride. Most of us in Ohio have been delighted with our winter of 2012. This day was for those who missed a winter wonderl

Doesn't it feel fabulous when you begin to feel better after an illness? It's an almost giddy feeling of appreciation when energy returns! I caught a virus over the holiday and it stopped my life for a few days. Tonight I am beginning to feel better and

Take 15 people who are no more or less alike than the crayons in a box. Add too much food, extended anticipation by the children, an exhausted me (mom and gma), one Christmas tree with presents surrounding it (the amount led Uni to tell me I'm out of c

My kitchen smells delicious with baked goods coming out of the oven and filling the house with anticipation. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to focus on the positive and appreciate all of our blessings. We all have them. They may not be as easy to iden

Can you believe it? Here I am over sixty and heading to a fitness center! Oh I've been there before, for yoga classes and to use the walking track in bad weather, but now I'm in a foreign land with strange machines of torture. Metal twisted into odd and

Isn't that what they always say? I'm not sure it's true but I am sure that I haven't been posting and sharing any news at all. Nothing earth shattering happening but I'm showing up to say I'm still on the right side of the grass. The weather,until

I was ready for a little fun today and I found a way to have some. My daughter and I planned a movie picnic. What?? YOU haven't had a movie picnic? Well this is how it's done. First find a movie being shown around lunchtime at a local theater. Then break

Life is wonderful and I never think anything else but sometimes I crawl into a little hole and think about things that disappoint me in life. Those things are actually people and I am fully aware that it is my expectations that are really the issue but

Tonight my husband suddenly became very quiet and started typing like a mad man. I noticed it was on a FB page and I was surprised by two things. The first is that he was writing so much on FB and the other was that with his two finger method of typing

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