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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2011

To my blog readers who celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas!  May your day be filled with love, peace and joy.  May we never forget the reason we celebrate Christmas — the birth of Christ! To my blog readers who do not celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a good day and I hope you cooked because [...]

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Anticipation

December 23, 2011

Every evening Vince and I stand around the door to watch for deer.  Speck has picked up on it and now he’s watching too! He doesn’t have a clue what he’s looking for but every time one of us goes to the door to look out, Speck goes too.  He does bark at the deer [...]

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Skewed Conversations

December 20, 2011

Vince and I figured that when mom and dad saw our property, they’d want to move here.  Dad loves it .. loves the wildlife and the open spaces with no restrictions.  Mom, on the other hand, loves the city life.  She loves going to town often, going out to eat often, visiting with her friends.  [...]

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My Husband, The Hypochondriac!

December 15, 2011

Without fail, when someone else has something wrong with them, Vince thinks he has it.  If someone at work has a sore throat or cold, within minutes of hearing about it, Vince is experiencing symptoms.  If anyone mentions a disease around Vince, within days, he’s sure he has the same thing.  Remember when our friend [...]

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Dog in the Closet

December 13, 2011

Speck rarely lets me out of his sight.  If it’s just the two of us here and I’m in the bedroom sewing, he’s pretty content to sleep on the sofa.  There’s one way out of the bedroom and that’s through the family room so he knows I’m not going anywhere without him knowing it.  If [...]

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Finishing One Another’s Sentences

November 28, 2011

You know how people who have been married a long time or even good friends can often finish one another’s sentences?  That doesn’t happen at our house.  I’m so glad I read the Men are from Mars book.  This weekend we had two conversations, back to back, that made me wonder how we make it [...]

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