Tag: family
group name: slicesoflife
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December 25, 2009 12:21 PM EST --
Today is Christmas Eve. In my circle of friends and family, this marks the last turn into the home stretch of the season's Holiday parties. This year was more hectic than usual because I had readings . . .
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July 27, 2006 03:56 PM EDT --
You don't show the world the real you. . . .
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February 07, 2007 01:21 PM EST --
I would like to recommend two excellent articles. I just read both of these this morning and feel that they speak to many women. Please take the time to read these two articles and several . . .
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April 12, 2006 01:51 AM EDT --
"Hi, Mom!" - Fiftyworder
Phone rings.
"Hello."
"Hi, Mom!"
"Hi, Handsome! How's school?"
"Fine. Just thought I would call and say hey."
"What's . . .
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June 13, 2006 12:26 AM EDT --
When I was growing up, my father and I didn't see eye to eye. Maybe it was because of my distrust for men. Maybe it was because, even at a tender age, I didn't want to be controlled by anyone and . . .
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April 21, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
I Wonder
Another sleepless night has fallen upon my restless soul. I listen to the rumbling of distant thunder amidst the silence I sit in. I wait for my mesmeric Anna to come home at her 2am curfew . . .
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June 02, 2006 09:35 PM EDT --
It was Christmas 1977 and after midnight mass a young towhead girl runs excitedly towards the living room. She knows Santa has brought her wonderful gifts. What she didn't know was that . . .
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June 26, 2008 01:42 AM EDT --
It was not until my mid 30's that I discovered I could cook. There were a few dishes that I would prepare, recipes that had come to me from my father, but I'd had enough disastrous experiences . . .
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August 08, 2006 11:42 AM EDT --
When I met my siblings in 1982, I learned that I had three brothers and two sisters. It was a wonderful reunion for them, but rather different for me, since I didn't remember any of them. I was the . . .
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May 25, 2006 07:25 AM EDT --
Good Morning, Gather!
Good morning, Gather! It's now five am in North Alabama. Well, I'm sure in all of Alabama for that matter unless someone changed the rules on me during the last week. That . . .
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August 22, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
Amidst all the challenges that we have faced these past few months there has come a beautiful gift. A few weeks ago my son called and asked if I was sitting down. He then gave me the news that I have a . . .
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January 02, 2007 11:05 PM EST --
Today we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. I got married in Las Vegas on January 2, 1982. We chose the Candlelight Wedding Chapel and a non-denominational minister. When our turn . . .
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October 13, 2006 12:22 PM EDT --
One of the great stages in raising orphan animals is the weaning stage. The babies we got would be fed Esbilac Puppy Weaning Formula from a regular infant bottle with an increasingly larger hole (X) in . . .
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May 21, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
On Friday when we decided to have a yard sale on Saturday and Sunday, we never thought about it being the long weekend in Canada. Yes, this is the Victoria Day weekend and it's always cold and rainy. . . .
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October 18, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Something within my gut recoils as I hear the flippant response . . . again. My words, thoughts, ideas are dismissed as a husband no longer consultsthe once esteemed mental checklist of "verbal offenses." . . .
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April 08, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
Recently someone asked me this question and quite frankly I'm not sure how to answer it. Why was anyone born where they were born? Of course, it's where your mother happened to . . .
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February 12, 2007 03:16 AM EST --
The door slammed open; a door-stop bent and still vibrating, open. "It's gone, it's gone!" screamed Trevor with dilated eyes, outstretched, shaking hands and anxious . . .
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August 05, 2006 05:52 PM EDT --
We live in a neighbourhood with lots of children. The other day as I was coming home from work we drove down one of the side crescents and I noticed a group of children playing in one of the yards. . . .
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September 06, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
My favorite skirt ripped last night as my son, 11, helped me take the clothes off the twisted rope hanging across my backyard. It caught on the rough tin edge of the garden shed as I swung it from line . . .
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