We began our fall ’08 road trip late Thursday morning. First stop: Crystal Lake, IL for some pizza at Lou Malnati’s with 2 of my sister’s and their families. We were there for a couple hours and I think were the loudest bunch there. We’re just like that. Kale. The youngest cousin (nephew) Amy, my … Read More
Teacher’s pet
Shortly after Kirk and I started dating, we were driving by an elementary school. As we passed by the school he said, “that’s where I went to elementary school”. I responded to his comment with a question. “Who was your 1st grade teacher?” He said, “Mrs. Reiff”. I said, “that’s my grandma!” Kirk replied with: “no way!” When … Read More
Squished Pennies
You can call them pressed pennies, elongated pennies, pressed cents, copper souvenirs, squeezed pennies, souvenir pennies, pressed coins, squashed cents, collector pennies, rolled pennies, flattened pennies, pressed coppers, squashed pennies, or squished pennies. Maybe you’ve seen these “Press-A-Penny” machines at the zoo, amusement parks, national landmarks. They are everywhere! In fact, they are a LOT … Read More
Wasn’t this our goal?
When people find out (or finally realize) that our nest is empty they usually have one of two responses: 1. How are you doing (handling) having an empty nest? 2. So, how is it? (What’s it like?) To which I respond: 1. We are doing great! 2. It’s awesome! The truth is….sometimes it feels very weird having the (quiet) house … Read More
Back in the day . . .
As long as we are walking down memory lane, we might as well take a peek into another memory . . . Drummer boy and I started dating as juniors in high school. Though we attended different high schools and lived in different towns, we managed to see each other a couple times a week….and talked nearly … Read More
Still Reminiscing – On this day, August 19th in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six (1976) these two people started dating. They were a very young (yet mature), seventeen years old, heading into their senior year of high school. Earlier that year they had dated for a few months before “she” decided … Read More
A Glimpse into our wild and crazy life . . .Not a normal day here….1. I rarely get up before 9am on Saturday. 2. Because I don’t get up til 9 on Saturday, I don’t usually garage sale…but Cara and I went today.3. Then we picked up Nate and went to Kohl’s to buy wedding … Read More
Special placesAs a child I always thought I’d live in the same house, on the same street, and go to all the familiar places I’d always gone to. One of those special places was my grandparent’s “cottage” (lake home) on Lake of the Woods, in Decatur, Michigan. For the last year or so I’ve had … Read More
I’ll have some more please. So today was just a “little” windy….but it was still a good day. We slept til 9am (perfect) had breakfast, then Cara joined Kirk and I for a cup of coffee on the back patio. That’s when some friends stopped by (we hadn’t showered, and some of us were in … Read More