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My kids and I just got back from the first trip of the summer.  Up at Grandma’s, there’s a store that we regularly visit that has the most unique and weird stuff, that it’s always like finding treasure- stuff we don’t strictly need but covet with all our hearts.  And sometimes, we even splurge and [...]

It’s been two weeks since my Mom was Copy Cat and Pack Rat’s nanny. It’s been one week since my Mom moved back to her home, Colorado. I had expected teary eye girls, temper tantrums and overall sadness to overcome my daughters. But to my surprise, this has not happened. That’s not to say they [...]

My husband works with computers for a living, and I’m a blogger. You would think that with all the time we spend on our computers that surely our kids must be playing computer games. The answer is no. It’s not that we have strong opinions against kids playing computers games. It’s [...]

My family is pretty small. I only have four cousins on my mom’s side and one cousin on my father’s side. I’ve only met that cousin a couple times and she’s also a lot older than me. Because our family is so small, if someone doesn’t go to a family event, [...]

I reached back to tickle Pack Rat and she laughed. Then I reached back to tickle Copy Cat only to notice she had her head down and she was pouting. No amount of tickling got her to smile. I asked Copy Cat, “Why are you sad?” She said, “Because I wanted you to tickle me [...]

I have observed that there is a direct correlation between aging, and the number of prescription drugs that a person uses.
Simply put, the older you are, the more prescriptions you have.
We won’t even talk about the vagaries of Medicare Part D – and especially the dreaded “donut hole“, which is one of the most patently [...]

I went to visit my Mom recently – I can’t say “home” because while I grew up in the same town, my Mom now lives somewhere else other than in the house where I grew up, and somehow, this has made my house my home now, more than ever before.
Anyway, being back in [...]

When Mom or Dad begins to “decline” – either due to age or disease – it’s time for you to get to know their physician.
Regardless of where they live, it is important for at least one other family member to be on your parent’s medical “team”.  This person (for the purposes of this article, we [...]

For the past few months I’ve been attending almost weekly counseling sessions to deal with some issues from my childhood. Issues that I didn’t even realize existed until I became a mother. There have been times over the past 3 months that I have considered stopping the counseling because it didn’t seem to be helping. [...]

All of you single parents out there; my heart goes out to how challenging your life can be. A few times each year I get a glimpse of how hectic it might be to be a single parent. Yet, I know these short experiences do not compare to being a single parent every single day.
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