cultivating me

I just couldn’t resist the alliteration My boys and I are traveling on a train and are currently just north of San Luis Obispo. I can tell you this because I am sitting here typing while connected to a Sprint MiFi card. And while I often complain about technology in terms of our constant connection [...]

We have a small room out behind the garage This room has been many many things throughout the history of this house.  My great grandfather was a dentist and he used to use that little room to see patients and pulled many teeth back there.  (I will always find that amusing) My grandmother used it [...]

This week, my two oldest kids were on Spring break. My youngest? His Spring break was during the two weeks prior. And mine? two weeks before that – how is it possible to have 4 weeks of Spring break between the 4 of us and yet, none of them overlapped. I don’t know. I do [...]

my sweet baby girl i know this is a few days late – okay almost a week! but you know, i think i still need time to properly come to terms with how grown up you are.  sixteen! wow – you are so grown.  almost a woman and yet i can clearly remember the day [...]

After about a year of contemplating blogging in general, if I still wanted to do it and if so, what exactly do I want my focus to be and if there should be a focus at all…..I finally moved into these fancy new digs.  Like with any other move in my life,  moving in was [...]

Six Flags Magic Mountain to be exact and I spent Saturday there with Jerry, our 3 kids, my brother his girlfriend and her 2 kids.  It was a great day.  I’m not really sure what I liked most about the day because there were a great many things to like. First of all, I got [...]

There were many things I looked forward to when it came to Christmas but one of the things I looked forward to the most was baking cookies.  Both my mom and my aunt baked cookies for the holiday and each had their specialties.  My aunt would bake a whole assortment of cookies including rum balls, [...]

do you ever wish you could do that?  turn back time?  maybe to make a different choice or to erase a mistake?  what about just for the chance to relive a day or a moment?  these days i’ve been awfully nostalgic and sentimental.  i don’t know what it is that has brought this on.  maybe [...]

how excited all 3 kids were about not just the wedding but about the fact that jerry and i were making ‘it official’ – they helped me count the hours and the minutes the completely relaxed feeling i had leading up to the wedding days before and the day of – it was a good [...]

this post has been sitting in my drafts folder for a long time. i found it hard to write but even harder to post. in some ways, i guess it has to do with the part of me that finds it hard to believe that she is really gone. i am profoundly sad and i [...]