Recently we marked the milestone of having lived in this house for ten years. For most people this would likely not be of note, but having moved 13 times over the 34 years of my husband’s career, this is the longest we have lived in any community (or house for that matter). All this moving brought us many challenges, trials and tribulations but what I also realized recently was that moving also brought some important life lessons. Not wanting to waste all this hard earned knowledge and experience, I present my list of “things you never knew you needed to know about moving.” Marie Kondo Is Right One of the…

If you know that this sentence contains all the letters of the alphabet, you are probably Baby Boomer age or older and may have spent time in elementary school writing it to practice your handwriting skills. Fast forward to today when school aged kids can find their way around a computer keyboard at lightning speed and can type a text in record time using only their thumbs, but find handwriting a bit of a mystery. As someone who prefers good old pen and paper for getting thoughts across, this idea strikes horror in my heart and has moved me to start a crusade to Bring Back Handwriting! Putting Pen To…

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Shoes decided their March Word of the Month would be "Why Not?" In keeping with the guidelines for the Word of the Month Challenge , each sister is free to interpret and incorporate the word(s) in whatever way they choose, which as you will see led to some interesting activities....

At the risk of showing my age, Dick and Jane is where my reading career began. Shortly thereafter my love affair with all things books blossomed and when libraries entered the picture, well, lets just say that my life was complete!

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering "it will be happier"... thought the above quote fit rather well given that our word of the month is "hope", and if you ask my family they will tell you that I am always ready with a good quote for any situation. I felt this quote was particularly applicable given that we are entering year two of a pandemic that has seen us riding a roller coaster of emotions, making hope more important than ever.

Yes, it is that Colonel…… Recently I had KFC (or Kentucky Fried Chicken as we of the boomer generation knew it) for the first time in over 10 years. To say that this was accompanied by a boat load of guilt over eating all that fatty, deep fried meat is an understatement. Being the responsible health conscious person that I am, I felt the need to confess my dietary transgression to my family and decided to turn it into a learning experience, by conducting a survey among family members. In doing so an interesting thing happened. Almost everyone I talked to, with little prompting, had surprisingly distinct memories about having…

If you follow our blog, you will know that of the five children in our family, four are redheads. I am the lone brunette with poker straight hair in contrast to my sisters’ naturally curly locks. So perhaps I could be excused for having just a teensy weensy obsession with hair. With that in mind, when I was looking for pictures to use in our blog I did notice some questionable hair themes which I feel I must address. Betty Set the Tone In her younger years mom had beautiful brunette hair. But, she went prematurely grey and so I don’t really remember her with anything but grey and eventually…