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Last One to Leave, Bring in the Dock
We are selling the family cabin this week, the last thing my father left us. He built it in 1968, with the same independence and drive he showed in everything else. He pored over plans for vacation homes, contracted the … Continue reading
Posted in Keeping Things Real
Tagged ambition, cabin, Catholic, dad, death, dock, family, grandkids, immigrants, lake, lifestyle, memories, mom, Northeast Minneapolis, Northern Minnesota, parents, school, tragedy, work
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All Together Now…
So, long time no post. I feel guilty. I do. It wouldn’t bother me except that I’m supposed to be chronicling my grandchildren’s formative years. If I don’t do it, who will? Nobody, that’s who. It’s January, so obviously I … Continue reading
Just a Little Christmas Horror Story
Such a busy weekend I had. I shopped for toys and gifts, baked bread and made soup, played Christmas music and danced around the kitchen. I did all these happy things so that I wouldn’t have to think. I haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Keeping Things Real
Tagged Christmas, Connecticut, family, first graders, grandchildren, grandkids, grandma, grandparents, gun control, gun lobby, kids, life, lifestyle, mass killings, NRA, school, school Christmas program
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Shades of Christmas Programs Past
Dec. 20, 2006 If I hadn’t had to work yesterday, I wouldn’t have been exhausted at my granddaughter’s Christmas program, even if it did go on and on…and on. Because why settle for one rendition of “Jingle Bells” when there … Continue reading
Posted in Because Holidays Happen
Tagged boomer, boomers, Christmas, funny, grandchildren, grandkids, grandma, humor, program, school
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“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” –Ogden Nash
It was Grandparents Day at Maria and Christian’s school on Wednesday. I like Grandparents Day. Everyone is just so doggone happy to be there. Every grandparent is beaming. Every kid is proud as punch. “This is my grandpa!” they’ll say, … Continue reading
Posted in Grand Central
Tagged funny, grandkids, grandma, grandparents day, humor, school
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