FREE Book

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You may not need this book, but maybe someone you know does.  I haven’t read it, but I did watch the Oprah show today and liked what I heard from Gary Neuman. You can download this book FREE until 7:00 pm on Thursday night (CST). Even if you don’t need to read this book…you might … Read More

Interview #1

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An interview with our Wild One.  Cara. Hopefully the other two children will cooperate for Interviews #2 and #3. Me:  What’s your favorite website? Wild One:  Facebook.  Your blog and Ryan’s blog Me:  Who are some people who in your life (not family members) that you have learned from over the years. Wild One:  Beth N., G’ma … Read More

Alone again

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The plight of a “first stage” empty nester is that the nest is not permanently empty.  Stage One empty nesters are those with children away at college — who leave – return – leave – return – leave – return for months – leave…..you get the idea.  They are gone, but not really.  We like … Read More

Puzzling?

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What do you call it when people are engaged in “putting together a puzzle”? “Doing a puzzle”? awkward “Putting a puzzle together”? obvious I call it “puzzling” — Puzzling, verb.  The act of putting together a puzzle. For years it has been tradition for our family to puzzle during the Christmas season.  Last year we didn’t for … Read More

It was fun while it lasted

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It was fun.  Christmas “break” time that is.  Having the week off to be with the family has been like a breath of fresh air.  So has sleeping in til 9 or dare I say….10 am on one morning! I feel like I used my time pretty well, inspite of some sleeping in.  Managing to … Read More

Delayed Christmas

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Ours was a delayed Christmas this year.  Since we all decided to wait until we could all be together, that meant that our “virtual” Christmas Eve was the 26th (last night) and our Christmas morning was this morning. We started our ‘Christmas Eve’ by watching Danae dance with former dance team members at her HS alumni BB … Read More

The “olden days”

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These (and many other) –shall we say “nostalgic” photos are causing quite a stir on Facebook since Danae posted them on her facebook. . .            Over 200 comments have been made on various photos in her photo albums on facebook.  There is one problem I have with her posting all these … Read More

Oh the Banter….

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And the beat list goes on . . . but Team Dietzman made some serious dents in the list tonight!  I was amazingly productive tonight.  Maybe because I got on the 4:35 bus, so I was home by 5 pm…..it really does make a difference.  While I fixed Turkey A’la King (thanks for the recipe Wendy!), the … Read More

Don’t go it alone . . .

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Last week DIY Guy (a.k.a drummer boy) received an email from a, shall we say, “younger dad”.  It said:   “As you know, I’m raising girls. As you also know, you’ve raised a couple girls yourself. Not that I think it ends when they leave home, but I figured that since you’ve gone through the middle and … Read More

Cousins

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Pre-school to post-college. That’s the age difference of the 18 cousins.  The group that converged for Thanksgiving. We tend to be a rowdie group…ok, the women and children are rowdie.  The men (all “outlaws”) sit back and wonder what in tarnation they married into (many years earlier)! The offspring not only get along well with … Read More