Tag: Family

• Fleeing For Our Lives…

  Mom and I enjoy walking. Thankfully we have gotten back up to a half an hour routine. Of course we do walk in the local cemetery. I have mentioned before it is where a lot of family and friends stones are standing tall. The reason we walk there is because it’s really just a nice…

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  July 2, 2024

  American Heritage, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  barking, calm, cemeteries, cemetery, Covid, death, dogs, Family, fleeing, Grandmas, grandpas, gravestones, highway, history, travel, unnerve, walkers, walking

• Fiery, Passionate Love

  Last year I wrote out my feelings about my nieces birthday and motherhood or lack of experience being a mother. Becoming an Aunt was an experience though and I went through all of that in this article from a year ago. Today is slightly different. Have you noticed something about recent crimes lately. The victims…

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  June 24, 2024

  American Heritage, Family, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  border-crisis, cherished, children, Christ, Christian, criminals, death, Family, fiery, girls, illegal migrants, immigration, joe-biden, love, neighborhood, news, Parents, passionate, politics, siblings, The Bronx Community, Trump authentic, victims, Women

• Wonderful and Unusual

  My summer has officially begun as of last Friday. Somehow my niece has shaken up our usual schedule and we don’t know what’s going on except for a couple of facts. One being that my Dad and brother head to work at nearly 4 and Selena knows she wants to be out if we are…

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  June 21, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  aunts, birthday, cake, conversation, elders, Family, genealogy, grandma, Grandmas, grandparents, history, intergenerational conversation, party, stories, time, uncles

• Summer Time

  This was Grandma Rosemary’s Welcome Swan Sign. The last few days have been busy. Who knew a preteen could have so many girls to follow her around all through our two weeks time with her. There are some other logistics that goes around with this too though! My niece has been reveling in her time…

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  June 20, 2024

  American Heritage, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  4 generations, anime, aunts, birthdays, conversation, experiences, Family, friends, grandma, grandpa-and-grandma-turn-young-again, Great Grandma’s, Irish, love, preteens, Roberts, siblings, special, summer time, Swans, traits, uncles

• Father’s Day Sunday

  Last night I was kind of thinking about the day’s events and it hit me how blessed I am. I have 3 church families who are so vastly interconnected through interactions of family and movement of friends going to different places. I would never have thought that last week I would be talking to a…

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  June 17, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  cards, Christian, church, Family, Father’s Day, genealogy, Grandmas, grilling, hamburgers, homemade cards, memories, mental-health, messages, receptions, religion, Sunday School, writing

• A Surreal 48 Hours

  Sunday was such a blessing and much more slow paced than today was for certain. I got to revel in my expanded church family for the morning service with Grandma and the evening service at another church with family and friends who are also very much like family. It was a soul-soothing day for me.…

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  June 10, 2024

  Spontaneity At It’s Best

  24 hours, Family, friends, ineligible, Monday morning, niece, seamstress, Sunday, surreal, talking, time

• A Prayer of Gratefulness

  Heavenly Gracious Father, sometimes I forget how big You are day to day. I let the daily grind gnaw me down. Stress has been intrusive as well as physically with my allergies. Just in the last couple of days I have been sneezing more although I am pretty certain why and it has to do…

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  June 7, 2024

  Unique Prayers

  allergies, bible, brother, Family, grandma, Grandma’s, gratefulness, guidance, love, Mothers Day, Pfaff, prayer, process, sewing machines, stitches

• Remembering

  Last night I had to came to a decision. After posting my one article of the day I thought I would have another one. Still I promised I would get to bed earlier than the previous two nights. I wanted to post my thoughts for these big anniversaries today. For 84 years Rosemary Alsman was…

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  June 6, 2024

  American Heritage, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  aircraft, birthday, birthdays, celebrations, college, D-Day, faith, Family, flood of 2008, floods, grandma, Grandpa, historic events, life, love, McKinleys, memories, projects, Red Lobster, restaurant, safety, sewing machines

• The Day Before

  Today was a nice day. It was good for our walk this morning and then this afternoon it turned. A front came in and it has been raining since, whether lightly or somewhat harder. I know it’s not completely the same, but I think about 1944 and what that day was like. It was a…

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  June 5, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Modern American History

  ancestry, D-Day, England, Family, grandparents, history, hope, July, June, military, Parents, passionate, Pearl Harbor, privilege, proud, replacement, storm fronts, Veterans, World War II

• Miracles

  Yesterday I alluded to a miracle. I should have used the word in plural form. The first miracle of the weekend was getting a weekend with my niece in the first place. We have been pushed aside not necessarily by my niece, but by circumstances being manipulated. Thursday evening was a pretty perfect evening having…

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  June 4, 2024

  God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  Amish Buffet, birthday, celebrations, church, cupcake, dinner, emotional, Family, food, friends, lasagna, life, mental-health, migraines, miracles, personal, reception, soul sister, weddings