It was my job to buy the present! 🙂  My daughter Kelly, her mother-in-law Ruth Ann, and I went together on a gift for a mutual friend.  And although the decision was made on their end, I was closest to the…

Life is what happens while you’re making other plans!  I worked late tonight, then had all intention of catching up on all the things I didn’t accomplish during the week:  laundry, paying bills, groceries, cooking real food (!!!), online orders,…

It’s incredible how time flies.  Just last Wednesday I was celebrating Autmn and her 12th birthday.  Now today we celebrate Kelly. My daughter – my firstborn – came home from the hospital on a snowy day, so bright and sunny…

Some people are born into families, some become part of your family.  Some are just simply FAMILY.  Ruth Ann is family. And today, we celebrate the anniversary of her birth. In 2002 my daughter Kelly married her son Matt.  They…

Autmn and I had a great time last night at the theater!  She was all dressed up in her new dress from Jen, and had her earrings and ‘faith’ necklace on that Miss Dianne gave her for her birthday.  …

    Twelve years ago today a little lady named Autmn Rose Stairs-Burke entered our world in the afternoon.  I had just got to the hospital when they told me she had arrived.  She is my first-born grandchild and that…

This weekend Kathy and I went to Albion to visit Mom, John, and Sparky.  This cat – notice the half-missing ear! – at one point would not even come near the house when we visited.  Now he sits on our…

Over the past few weeks I have been longing to make a trip to Colonial Williamsburg.  The entire city fascinates me, full of history and life, present and past. I have never been there when it snowed, although I was…

Well here it is, the middle of the day on Saturday.  If the weather hadn’t turned horrid this week, my sister and I would be enjoying our Christmas visit with Mom and John (far left and center).  Kathy and I…

Well, I can offer no excuse.  I kept telling myself that once the holidays were behind me, and the house and schedule back to its pre-Christmas status, I would have so much more time. I never before realized how delusional…