Tag: family
member name: Gisela S.
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March 15, 2006 07:56 PM EST --
This article was written in response to the Two Words Group Weekly Challenge "Night's Revenge."
I am by nature, a caretaker of books. They line our shelves, stand in what I can only hope . . .
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July 30, 2007 11:20 PM EDT --
Yesterday was a bit of an anomaly for me. You see, I had it all to myself....
Fred, Dani and Alex left at 6 am for a Phoenix - San Bernardino - Phoenix turn around trip in order to get my . . .
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March 17, 2006 03:03 PM EST --
Just when I thought it was safe to segue to next week's Two Word Challenge – two of my family men decided to re-open the topic by making VERY BAD CHOICES last night.
Now, I should preface this . . .
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May 08, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
Sunday May 7th - 9:12 PM
"Mom?"
"Yeah sweetie, what is it?"
"We have to talk."
"Hmmm?"
"Stop typing Mom..... Mom....MOM!!"
"Yes? I'm . . .
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February 25, 2007 08:33 PM EST --
All last week, I knew she was out there, waiting for someone - anyone - to find a place where she could be put to good use again. Other than adjusting the sheets and blankets that we'd draped over . . .
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April 25, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
Sixteen years ago today, I awoke at 2:45 am from a sound sleep to a ruptured amniotic surprise. An hour and a half, and some serious hard work later, I was handed a small bundle.
Who . . .
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August 09, 2006 01:30 PM EDT --
Logan Seth - quite possibly the most laid-back baby in the world, and our very first grand child was born yesterday morning at 10:54 am.
He weighed in at 8 pounds 2 oz, and stretched out to 21 inches . . .
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February 08, 2009 06:01 PM EST --
Hello Gatherers!
My husband, 12 year old and I are planning a trip to San Francisco mid March. It’s been years since I’ve been there, and I’ve never embarked to that particular destination with . . .
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March 23, 2006 02:11 PM EST --
I have been a parent for over two decades. For the majority of that time I was working outside the home, and I admit, placed dutiful meal planning rather low on the totem pole of my priorities.
Inevitably, . . .
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June 29, 2006 03:15 PM EDT --
It arrived yesterday with little fanfare. In fact, it very nearly DIDN'T make it across the livingroom. Good thing my eye-hand coordination was actually functional when Fred casually lobbed . . .
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February 06, 2006 12:18 PM EST --
Some families are renown for their dedication to the preservation of artisan skills – wine making, the crafting of fine musical instruments, or perhaps simply a sour dough starter that has been . . .
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January 18, 2009 04:02 PM EST --
I realized earlier today that like so many other things I've recently come to take for granted, expecting my husband to come to my rescue in the midst of a household emergency is probably NOT something . . .
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June 01, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
"I just know I'm forgetting something...."
"There's a hole in your pants."
"I know dear."
"Well, aren't you going to change them?"
"No dear." . . .
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March 31, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
In the summer of 2006, my husband's Aunt Tillie and Uncle Ed celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. To commemorate the event, their children, spouses/partners as well as Fred, Danielle . . .
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July 29, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
I had something of an epiphany yesterday afternoon.
I was kneeling over the flower bed just off the patio, pulling migrating grass and muttering under my breath. How the heck had this happened? . . .
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February 14, 2006 03:38 PM EST --
I found myself really struggling with an idea for this week's choice "fuzzy edges." My first instinct was to rattle off another chuckle or two about the "fuzzy edges" of my logic . . .
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February 03, 2006 12:19 PM EST --
Inside our wine cellar mini-fridge, four shelves down, reside two bottles of Perrier Jouët champagne. Exotic stuff this bubbly – far more expensive than the usual toasting material we break . . .
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February 17, 2006 11:14 PM EST --
A few years back, when my eldest was just about to head into High School, certain vocabulary components had to be formally verboten. (We had a toddler in the house who loved to repeat things.) . . .
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February 11, 2007 09:44 AM EST --
As many of you know, I lost my grandmother (Yup - that's her picture smiling down at you) to Alzheimer's Disease in 1994. Since that time, I've read extensively on brain . . .
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March 03, 2006 01:04 PM EST --
More than one person has asked me why I agreed to put myself and our finances through the drama of trying to plan and execute a full-scale formal wedding in less than two months. While in the throes of . . .
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