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8 months ago my 82 year old grandmother - and dearest friend and confidant - was rope sliding in Costa Rica (she was tied to a rope and was sliding from tree to tree) while taking what was to be her last vacation with my brother (1 month after finding out she had liver cancer) […]

This is just a quick post on Esther’s behalf to let you know that she will be AWOL for awhile. Her grandmother, Titi, passed away this week, losing the battle with cancer.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
My husband and I don’t do much other than exchange cards on this day because money tends to be “tight” - but the little things mean so much sometimes….when I got home last night (after two grueling hours in traffic, and beyond tired) I found this waiting for me:

Nothing out of this […]

My dad’s results came back from the biopsy and he is CANCER FREE!!! The overwhelming feeling of joy and relief is more than I could muster writing about at first so it took me a couple of days - we’ve all been enjoying the relief and happiness and thank God every moment.
On the […]

My dad had his prostate surgery - he’s home recuperating and we’re all waiting for his pathology report to come back so we can take that ‘deep breath’…since the surgery we’ve all gotten horrible chest colds and my son now has strep and an ear infection so we’re all just a big ol’ mess to […]

We just got back from our yearly trip to Disney/Universal/Islands of Adventure and this time we included Sea World - it was great - kids had fun but now I’m back at work and under the gun with only a handful of days to get it all done before the Christmas holidays.
I’ll be off until […]

So turkey day is over..the long weekend was nice. Great to actually have some time to sleep seems like I never get enough of that anymore.
We finished putting up the tree. Usually we put up about four different Christmas village collections, animated figures, music boxes, you name it, however this year we […]

I whipped up another hat for Titi - she wanted a plain “big” black hat. Something stretchy and “BIG” because she says without hair her head is TOO TINY for her body..lol. So, I whipped up this simple garter stitch plain hat (I promise to post pattern details later forgot to bring the info). […]