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***I know I’m a day late with this, but we were having computer issues yesterday.  Besides, it’s still the 15th in the U.S.*** Happy 15th Birthday to my son Ben!  When Ben was a baby, he was like a little roly-poly potato bug.  I immediately fell in love with his funny little personality. As aContinue reading “15 on the 15th”

This is a picture my photographer extraordinaire sister-in-law Julie (of http://www.julieparkerphotography.com) recently took of my Aunt Janet.  Janet turns 81 this summer. Yep, I got those genes!

Seventeen years ago today, I gave birth to an adorable little penguin. That little penguin grew . . . And grew . . . And grew . . . And grew . . . And grew . . . And eventually became this beautiful swan. Happy 17th Birthday to my Cecily who is just asContinue reading “My Adorable Penguin Who Became a Beautiful Swan”

Yesterday my heart stopped beating for a few seconds.  I was in the midst of doing my weekly hundred loads of laundry.  I was moving a load from the washer into the dryer when I saw (it was so horrible!) my daughter’s iPod lying, face down, at the bottom of the washer. NOOOO! You see,Continue reading “One Heck of a Product”