where did my boys go?

I was looking through my photos from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, and I literally started to cry. I know, I’m a doofus .  It’s like, for the first time I really saw my sons …
They are growing into men. Even little Keigan Michael, isn’t really “little” Keigan Michael, anymore – he’s 11 now, and [...]

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A story

In loving memory of my Mumsie, Judith Lynne, June 23rd, 1943 – November 2nd, 2002.

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Mem’ries of Mumsie

I was sitting down here today, to write you a poem. The poem would not come. This is what came instead.
Mem’ries,
Light the corners of [...]

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vacation 2008 – day 7

Another beautiful day to wake up to.
We all got up, dressed and ate. As we were about 15 minutes from heading off up the field to church, my Denver and Izaac and their recent simmering hostilities, boiled over. I sent the littles on ahead with big brother and the Hodders to the 10am [...]

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vacation 2006 – day 6

Day 6.
The day dawned beautiful, warm and bright.
All the older children seemed to pair off or get up in groups with the Hodder’s children. This left Keara, Keigan Michael and I to spend some time with my dear friend Eva. Eva and I chatted, at their place, for quite a while, then decided [...]

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vacation 2008 – day 5

Back to our story.
Day 5 began beautiful bright and warm. I lovely day, after a string of rainy wet days. We rose a bit late, just about 9:30am. Denver and Izaac had already headed off with Mitchell, Hodder’s 16yr old son, for a day at the Transfer Station – a.k.a. the dump. [...]

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vacation 2008 – day 4

We had a wonderful sleep in the comfort of our friends’ home.
Our plans for this day were simple. Denver and Izaac wanted to stay at the Hodder’s and enjoy their flat screen TV with satellite connection. Corbin and Blake spent the day with one another, and then the evening with Blake’s fiancee as [...]

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vacation 2008 – day 3

We woke up to a nice sunny day, after the torrential rains of last night. We were heading down to Upper Stewiacke later today, so we broke camp. The tents, clothes and stuffies were all packed back in their assigned places. The children were gathered up from the play ground where they [...]

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vacation 2008 – day 2

This morning found us waking up at a busy truck stop, where we had taken shelter for the night and slept in our cars. We still had a good 4.5 hours or more, of driving to do, to reach our first destination of Amherst, NS.
We woke, sorted our cars back out, repacked the pillows [...]

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vacation 2008 – day 1

August 11th, 2008.
Well, as the old saying goes, “The best laid plans of mice and men . . .” the day did not start well. We all had had a day-before-we-leave-on-our-much-anticipated-road-trip melt down the previous Sunday night. It was a very busy weekend leading up to our day of departure on our vacation.
1st [...]

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gone camping … visiting … driving … crazy … whatever

I’ll write about it when I get back. See you soon.
Pray for safe travel for us, please.
Lisa

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