Amor, Dinero, Salud…

…y mucho tiempo para gozarlo.
Although many of us see it as the end of one year, I’m looking at this time as the beginning of a new year.  There’s so much waiting for us out there amidst the pages of the 2009 calendar.
Right now I am feeling that life is a journey and I’m eager [...]

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Thoughts Of Friends and Customs

One of my friends, when I lived in the Los Angeles area, was Italian. Agnes lived near me. She worked as a Teacher’s Aide in the elementary school where my kids attended and later she worked in the attendance office at the high school where my two older kids attended.
When I got [...]

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New Year’s Eve Memories

When I was growing up, New Year’s Eve was spent at home with the whole family.  My parents would sometimes have company but it was always people with kids and they would all come.  There would be food and drink and dancing for the grownups.  When we were very young, my dad would put us [...]

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New Year’s Eve, 1991

One year when the kids were little, we booked a trip to Disney World in Orlando.  We left the day after Christmas.  It was the three kids and my ex-husband and me.  We had a great trip staying at one of the Disney hotels and going to the theme parks every day.   The two older [...]

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The Lull

The week between Christmas and New Years Eve has always been a slow time in my time.  There’s always been a lull as we finish up all the business of Christmas and the old year and start to get ready for the new year.  That’s how I feel right now.  Christmas is over.  Everyone is [...]

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It’s Over

Well, it’s over.
Chirstmas. The kids’ visits. The snow (or at least I hope that is over!). And not being able to get out of the mobile home park that I live in.
Today I got out. It was rough going. The mobile home park I live in doesn’t plow the roads. [...]

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December 25, 1955

This is my favorite Christmas story. It’s about the night that I was born. I have posted this elsewhere over the years.
DECEMBER 25, 1955
María lay in bed exhausted, yet unable to sleep. She’d had an endless day and had just finished putting out the gifts for her four children. Tomorrow would be filled with [...]

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They’re Here!

For a while it did not look like the kids would get home for Christmas but they’re here!  Flight delays had them arriving, one at 11:30 last night and one at 12:45 this morning.   Then my daughter picked them up to drive them here and it took them almost two hours to get here from [...]

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Three Strike Christmas

For some reason my ex-husband always chose wither the start of the school year when I had school clothes to buy for three kids or Christmas when I had gifts to get for the kids, to file for a Modification of Support.  When he filed such an order, he did not have to pay me [...]

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The Mighty Mo

I grew up in a large family.  There were seven kids plus my mom and dad.  My dad was the only one who worked, as was the norm in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.  My dad drove a fork lift at one of the local canneries.  The only way there would ever be any [...]

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