I found my parents' wedding announcement in Jet magazine (Jul 10, 1969) and I feel quite proud, even though this is how my dad's second wife found out he had remarried.

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As of 7:57 this morning, my girl's have a new cousin. First pic of Lucas's little brother:

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The hubby and I made good use of Earth Hour last night, turning off lights and appliances, having a little quality time with each other before falling asleep. I only slept for three hours, though, until June wanted her midnight snack. Falling back asleep was hard, so I lay reading the Algebraist by Ian Banks until three or four a.m.
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I awoke this (late) morning to the smell of freshly baked bread. My husband had made breakfast rolls from scratch. The other day, it was cinnamon buns.

This afternoon, my husband observed our 2½-year-old strolling across the yard, out the back gate, through the vegetable patch and out across the adjoining field, accompanied by Simba-the-cat. Hubby ( Read more... )

I am beginning to admit to myself that I internalize my anxieties. I seem to have lost the ability to go to bed before I am completely exhausted. This has been going on pretty much since my grandmother died, which happened to coincide with my latest visit to the unemployment agency. They wanted some clarification regarding my doctor's assessment of ( Read more... )

My grandmother passed away a week and a half ago. I pretty much knew it was over when my mother called a few days earlier to tell me that my grandmother was in some sort of vegetative state - she couldn't move, but her eyes could open and she winced when the nurses turned her to prevent bedsores, so she was given a morphine drip and kept ( Read more... )