Tag: Family
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The Weekends & Soup
For a long time we had a routine with my niece. Then it seemed overnight someone else started making decisions leaving us out of my nieces, every other weekend time, with her. She likes being with Daddy so Friday was our night with her and then Saturday’s were and most of Sundays were with Daddy.…
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Time & Christmas
Although I am no longer that young naive girl so excited to get presents on Christmas; I love making a Christmas atmosphere. The anticipation is most of the fun of Christmas. I don’t expect much in that way as much as I do the looks on everyone else’s looks from the stocking stuffers I am…
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Movie Memories
Tonight is the debut of “The Biltmore Christmas.” For weeks this show has been on commercials for the Christmas Hallmark season. As much as I have a love and hate relationship with Hallmark I love this show already. About two months ago I was invited after church to a friends house with other church friends;…
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Giving Thanks For Family
The holidays bring about some difficult truths for some of us. Everyone in this life suffers and everyone suffers loss of a friend and family member. Over the years we see holes in our family gatherings. This year it’s still fresh… September wasn’t that far ago. Although, I am certain my Dad, his sisters and…
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The Day After Veterans Day
Veterans Day may be over, but our servicemen and women live with the memories and the pain every day. The cards I received from Uncle Tom all those years ago brought back my own memories. The men I have had the honor to interview their stories are in my head the context in which our…
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Uncle Tom in Germany
“As soon as I got to the states they said everybody’s orders have been flagged. So you go home and about 2 weeks later almost time up for my leave time and I had received a package with my new orders. They sent me to Fort Riley Kansas which was still close to home and…
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A Girl’s Default Dreams
Most little girls have dreams of their future wedding. We all do! The dreams change throughout the years depending on various events and just what life brings to our lives. Yet we still have our ideas that we saw growing up in other family and friends weddings over the years. Some ideas can be changed,…
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College Memories
I began college at Oakland City University in the Spring Semester. Which means I started in the middle of winter. My first big winter weather storm didn’t take long to happen. In fact I was afraid I wouldn’t get home that week at all. We had a lot of snowfall down south. During this week…
Jewells of Thought 