Very Useful Websites

Posted on April 9, 2018     2 Comments

I have not been here in ages, but today seemed like a good day to come back. My favorite artifacts from my mom were here journals, in particular, “Articles of Importance – 2007”. I often open it to a random page, not unlike a Magic 8 Ball. Today this gem came up. Let’s face it… […]

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MOM. In caps.

Posted on May 13, 2017     1 Comment

I am a mom. And a daughter. And everything that I have learned about being a mom, I learned from being her daughter.

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Positive things

Posted on January 31, 2016     1 Comment

   The ultimate gardener. One more from the bulletin board. 

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The Original Latergram

Posted on January 29, 2016     1 Comment

   I always loved the  hashtag #latergram. Post something you forgot to earlier that means enough to share. Two and a half years after she left us, Elaine still finds a way to impart the wisdom that meant the most to her.  I found this on the little bulletin board by the phone in the […]

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Happy Birthday Elaine

Posted on August 15, 2014     Leave a Comment

Originally posted on i could cry but i don't have time:
Today would have been my mom’s 83rd birthday. Now that she is gone I guess it’s OK to let her real age out of the bag, right? I always wrote her a birthday blog post, some of which she had framed, I might…

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WWED (What Would Elaine Do?)

Posted on February 9, 2014     2 Comments

Found this little clipping on the edge of the refrigerator door (front is too crowded with pictures of every baby ever born)

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Posted on July 16, 2013     1 Comment

And lower your blood pressure! You mean to tell me I just did an 8 month med roller coaster only to find out that I could have just been eating pistachio nuts? (unsalted, of course). Somehow I think Elaine cut this out because she was such a lover of pistachios. How many people do you […]

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