Tag: grandparents
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Saying Goodbye… A House of Memories
Now that a dumpster is on the premises makes this phase even more stark. No one knows what will happen and who will get the house yet. Before we get to that step we need to clean up the house and find the little treasures of our grandparents that have trinkled down through the family…
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Wow… My 500th Article
One of my Feature Series has been on Church and how essential my Church Community has been specifically to my family and on my youth and growth. There have been a lot of Seasons in my life although, yes many think I am still a teenager a blessing from genetics given to me from both…
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Family Growing Together
Just as my Dad’s family was ingrained into a local congregation so was my Mom’s family. In fact there was an old building right beside the Church which was the one-room school house. My mom remembers when it was torn down and wishes they had done more to stop that from happening. Life happens though…
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Family Reunion: A Prayer of Thanks For Family Time
Thank you Lord, for our annual Bishop Family Sunday Afternoon gathering yesterday. Sometimes these feel stressful and exhausting. On Saturday I looked through some of my grandma’s photo albums. There were two old articles about both sides of the family the Lesters and the Bishops having Reunions for 44 years one on side and just…
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Lessons Learned From “S” Events
You never know how tough you can be until a trial brings you through something unimaginable. This was an ordinary day for me and ended up being an extraordinarily draining afternoon to bedtime. There are times we simply cannot prepare for what’s to come into our lives… yet we have to face them head on.…
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Marty
Time is amazing and ongoing. On a pace that everyone has to catch up to regardless of a person’s circumstances. Marty was my mom’s cousin and two years ago the Lord took him home. Like I said, it doesn’t seem like it has already been 2 years… time has just ticked onward. He was a…
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Walking Through History In Letters
Dates are always going off in my head. July 23, 1944 is one of those ‘days of infamy’ in my mind. So this year as usual dates of the letters come to mind when the dates circle round. Today Monday, 17, 2023 is on a Monday like it was in 1944 when Grandpa penciled two…
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The Last 24 Hours
The last week has been a whirlwind so it seems. From the thunderstorm to playing catch up and then church. Yet I was all caught up until yesterday. I wasn’t prepared for my hairdo on top of July 3rd family festivities. The original articles set for the past two days have been shanghaied due to…
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A Deep Love… His Legacy
February 6th, 2020 Again these are the articles I wrote from three years ago Grandpa died on February 6th, 2005. It took me 15 years to write out my thoughts, feelings and a timeline of the events. If you don’t write things down the fuzziness and confusion of mourning does set in and the facts…
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Embraced and Loved
A day or two ago I heard a comment from Dana Perino on the Five. She became even more relatable to me. She talked about how her beloved Grandfather influenced her life. Hearing those words took me to Grandpa Freddy, myself. To hear her give that personal statement was comforting in a way to know…
Jewells of Thought 