cultivating me

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

is hard.  i not quite sure i how i ever healed my broken hearts and i surely don’t know how to heal another’s.  especially when it is my daughters. today i saw her broken heart as she looked for her good friend to say one last goodbye.  C moved here with her parents over the [...]

Happy Birthday Luis I’ve started this post so many times over the past week and words have not seem to come to me.  Today you turned  13 – THIRTEEN LUIS!  – and I am still having a hard time wrapping my mind around this fact.  I don’t know why it is hard for me to [...]

I finally got around to downloading photos form my camera today and found some really great shots – many of which I had intended to include in a post.  However, we all know that good intentions are nice but don’t really amount to anything and the proof of that is the lack of writing that [...]

That’s me! and I have come to terms with the fact that no matter how old i get, I will always be his little girl. Happy Father’s day dad! I am so lucky to have had you as my father growing up. I know that we didn’t always agree – especially in my teens. Regardless, [...]

Just a week ago I married this man and I have come to the decision the I like being married. But, it’s not just about being married, it is about being married to Jerry. I really like being his wife. I love being able to introduce him as my husband – there is a joy [...]

all i can say is she’s my daughter and i think she is amazing! This is a from my daughter’s blog. My daughter – she’s 14 – but apparently much much wiser than her years at times.  After I read this and after I was able to get some of the tears under control, I [...]

I spent yesterday at The Americana at Brand yesterday with my sweetie.  It was such a fabulous day for so many reasons.  For starters, it was a gorgeous day: sunny near 80 with a slight breeze and just a few fluffly clouds in the sky.  This Americana place is an outdoor shopping center – and [...]