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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Family reunions- Bunkersdown style.
This weekend we traveled to Iowa for a family reunion. Despite not living in Iowa for almost thirty years, it still feels like home whenever I visit. My family thought we were being so smart by having the reunion on … Continue reading
Posted in family, outings and trips
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Undiscovered gems.
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” The Little Prince Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery Tonight when all my … Continue reading
Posted in musings, The Little Girl
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Why I will forever and always be a cat person. And hate poison ivy.
Trinity has poison ivy. AGAIN. My daughter knows after last year’s infestation, she shouldn’t be at the edge of our property along the fence line because that’s where the poison ivy hangs out. But the lure of ripe mulberries was … Continue reading
Posted in parenting, The Big Girl
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Stephen King motivates me to be a better gardener.
My spring garden has hit maximum overload this week. (Notice how it is the week when I am juggling a million items and my husband is hospitalized overnight for pneumonia. This is always my life.) The lettuce and spinach are … Continue reading
Posted in books, gardening
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Pneumonia update.
Whew. May has been a whirlwind of craziness and we only halfway through this month. I’m decidedly nervous for what the rest of May holds for me and my family. First things first, thank you so much for the thoughts, … Continue reading
Posted in musings, my husband
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The same and different.
I drove my husband to the hospital today and he ended up being admitted. He has pneumonia, which isn’t a life threatening condition for a normally healthy man like my husband. But I’m still scared. A little over a year … Continue reading
Posted in My Dad, my husband
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This is how phobias are born.
The other day I opened my front door to find a turtle on my doorstep. Seriously. A freaking turtle the size of a football was just hanging out and seeing the sights over here at Bunkersdown. As you can imagine, all … Continue reading
Posted in just everyday life
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American history, as it should have been.
Gentle reader, you know how sometimes you get a thought in your head and while you know it is not possible nor feasible the thought stays in your head, tantalizing you ever so slyly because you want to believe it’s … Continue reading
Posted in books
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My favorite “Will-isms”
It’s come to my attention that perhaps I’m not blogging enough about my older children. Let me remedy this immediately. This is my son. The best way to describe my first born child is that he is 70% Howard Cosell, … Continue reading
Posted in The Boy
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Five years old.
It’s still birthday season around here at Bunkersdown. Today my youngest daughter is celebrating her fifth birthday. (Yes, Eden’s birthday is the day after my birthday. And the reason her birthday is the day after mine? Because I refused to … Continue reading
Posted in The Little Girl
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