I am not a jealous person. Never have been. I often tell people they are beautiful and compliment them. If you went on a fun vacation, I am so happy for you. If you won the lottery, had a baby, or bought a house I would be the first person to tell you congratulations! I…
Catching up.
So much has happened in my life since my last posting. B and I are grandparents now. We have a handful of grandbabies who call us Mimi and Pa. They are literally the light of our lives. Both B and I had such wonderful memories of our own grandparents and we try our best to…
What I Remember About My Grandparent’s House
My Granny and Pa M’s little white house in the middle of Springfield, Mo. The whole backyard was garden, every kind of vegetable, dill, mint for tea, marigolds planted at the corners to keep the bugs out. All colors of roses planted down the side of the house. Pa built me a swing in one…
My sweetie
We stopped at the small DG store on the way home to get dog food for our pups and an older gentleman was in line ahead of us with a heart shaped box of candy and some chocolates . He told us he was getting valentines for his sweetie and they’d been married 68 years!…
That’s What Neighbors Do
A pillar of the community in our small town passed away this week. Mr. J. He is someone I’ve known my whole life and what we in the hills fondly refer to as a squirrel cousin. Which means somewhere in a round about way we are related by marriage. He ran a gas station here…
Holiday Nostalgia: “The Good Old Days”
Ah the “good old days”. Christmas and the holiday season certainly brings me many thoughts of nostalgia. I don’t recall many of the presents that I received as a child but remember vividly sitting in the backseat of my Dad’s station wagon while he walked inside the bank on the downtown square. The snow was…