The longest Beloved and I have lived in one place since our marriage nearly 24 years ago was 8 years in Urbana, IL while he was in grad school. Actually, that’s not totally true as we lived in Champaign, IL for one year before moving to the other side of “town” and being in Urbana. …
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A year ago today, I was at my in-laws’ home. We’d just finished dinner and were heading to the living room to watch something on television when my cell phone rang. I thought, Hmm, who could be calling me; everyone is here. Well obviously everyone wasn’t because it was my brother and as soon as …
My mother died on September 3, 2009, the day after the Girl celebrated her 20th birthday. It’s been about 6 weeks since she died, and you know, most of the time, I’m doing okay…sort of. I go about my daily life and things go along the way they did before 3 September. Beloved and the …
Life has been crazy around here lately. A little over a week ago, my mother-in-law called.They live in New Jersey and this was Friday, last week. The first words out of her mouth were, “Surprise. We’ll be there Sunday.” Now, a little context. I had my brother on the other line. He lives in Ohio …
The Triduum begins today. The Holiest days of the year and the end of Lent. How has your Lent been going? I started out with a whole bunch of things I was going to do, but ended up only doing the one thing – getting up every weekday morning at 5:45 and not hitting the …
I’ve just signed an agreement with TKO Scraps and will probably start selling stuff there next week. In the meantime, they’re having a sale today! Stop by and see what’s on sale! If you like blog trains, mark your calendar for 1 April. This is when Michelle’s Angels Easter Egg Hunt starts. And speaking of …
Lots of interesting stuff is going on. WRITING UPDATE: HeartLA has its monthly meeting today. It’s always fun to get together with other writers. We have a couple of members who are “characters” and one was in fine form today, which made for an interesting meeting, but otherwise, it was great. We had several visitors, …
Today is my 50th birthday and while a month or so ago, that number bothered me a lot, today I am probably one of the happiest women on the planet! My family threw a surprise party for me last night at a local steakhouse/buffet restaurant. And it was very sneaky the way they did it. …
Tomorrow is my 50th birthday but tonight is our celebration dinner because the Girl has a big test tomorrow night. I had planned to spend all tomorrow just goofing off and celebrating me, but I had a chiropractor appointment this morning, so I will still “play” tomorrow, after our dinner tonight. I don’t have any …
I’m really sorry. I meant to update this blog before now! Anyway, I’m designing still. I just uploaded this kit: to four stores: Bitchin’ Scraps Boutique Michelle’s Angels The Scrappin’ Divaz The Creativity Box Eventually, this blog is going to be redesigned to reflect my new “job.” I’m having a lot of fun with this. …