What the.….?? Few things irri­tate me more than either the TV or radio telling me there is break­ing news and then they go on to have 3 or 4 com­mer­cials. This hap­pened again this morn­ing. Watch­ing the weather chan­nel, know­ing severe storms are headed through Min­nesota where my chil­dren live, the weather chan­nel announc­ers come […]

There are rites of pas­sages our chil­dren go thru that we antic­i­pate, then par­tic­i­pate in, that we take for granted even though they are momen­tous events. Smil­ing, rolling over, crawl­ing, stand­ing, walk­ing, talk­ing, feed­ing ourselves,the pains and joys of grow­ing up, lov­ing and hurt­ing then all the edu­ca­tion to grad­u­a­tion and choos­ing of life careers. […]

Hello read­ers. I have been away from here for a while but I have a very good rea­son. His name is Eli­jah and he was born a week ago today. I have tried to come down here a few times in the last few days to write about him but emo­tions tend to get in […]

Just checked my daughter-in-laws preg­nancy wid­get and 6 more days until the due date. Wow!!I am so excited, anx­ious, excited, ner­vous, excited… I think they are ready. As ready as they can be, espe­cially this first time fac­ing so many unknowns. Who is ever com­pletely ready for a new baby??I was think­ing today about the […]

Today we just got home from spend­ing the morn­ing with friends who, last night, lost a hus­band, father, grand­fa­ther, uncle, brother and friend when he sim­ply fell over dead while play­ing with his grand­kids. He had an EKG Wednes­day that showed every­thing nor­mal. In spend­ing time with his griev­ing widow and fam­ily today, all she […]