How I almost died for cooking oil….

I spent this week in Tennessee with my kids, my brother and his daughter at my grandmother’s house. There are so many stories that I almost couldn’t decide which one to tell you first but thought the one where I was near […]

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Reward for solving mystery

For the past couple of weeks our beloved dog Hoosier has been stalking something in our backyard. It is obviously something nocturnal since he only barks between 3:30 and 5:00 a.m. No matter how fast I leap out of bed and run […]

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For the love of pete I’ll give you the five dollars!!!

Yesterday Ashley and I went to see Julie and Julia. Great movie. Loved it. Almost didn’t make it in time. And here is why: There was a very sweet old lady in line in front of us. She had apparently been so […]

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I love summer…

now but that was not always the case. When the kids were little my friend Tara and I would count down the days until school was out….to see how many more days of freedom we had left. We would make glorious plans […]

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Anonymous Wussies….

make me angry. Apparently my previous blog offended some people. For those of you that know me you know that I am a physical therapist assistant and have devoted the last fifteen years of my life to rehabilitating folks with all manners […]

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Mom, please stand by…

just in case I need you. As you know Ashley is away at Performing Arts Camp at MaDonna University. Michael was excited that he would be an only child for an entire week. He said he and I could spend lots of […]

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So much happening … how can I blog about it all. I guess the most traumatic experience I had this summer was the air going out on my van….three times. Having your air goes out is a lot like your ass getting […]

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Happy Birthday Ashley

Tomorrow my baby girl turns sixteen. Where has all the time gone? Sixteen years ago tonight I was oblivious to just how much I would love her. I was a 28 year old woman who had all the answers. I didn’t need […]

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Hit the road..Jack and Jill.

So I guess by now everyone has heard about he woman in Florida or wherever that put her two girls aged ten and twelve out on the street. They were apparently bickering and she put them out on a main street downtown […]

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First things first…I have been a very bad blogger. I have been very busy and for so long I only felt like writing about my dad that I didn’t write for fear of making everyone cry on a daily basis. So here […]

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