Category Archive:Family

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I love hearts in nature – this is a beautiful shot – not taken by me (proper attributes beneath the pic).

Hubbymoose and I do not, as a rule, celebrate what he calls a hallmark holiday. We have been together a very long time. Thinking back, I don’t think we ever made a very big deal of the day . . . several reasons: he is not a flower person (doesn’t like cut flowers he says, because they too soon die); he doesn’t like chocolate (never mind that I do – haha – just ask my hips); he “can’t remember” dates.

That last one is probably the closest to being true. In Alaska, especially in the depths of winter, we all too often go day to day, go to work, go to the gym, go to church, without thinking of DATES, but only days. This is one reason I have a work calendar so I can remember where I am supposed to be and when.

So, dates like February 14th slip by us.

Except that it is our youngest grandson’s birthday. We remember that!!!

Happy birthday buddy. We love you.


Mama. Mommie. MOM!
What is it, kiddo?
I love you.
I love you, too.

Mama. Mommie. MOM!
What?
Give me kiss.
One for me, too.

Mama.
What, sweetie?
Thank you.
Oh, thank you!
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Those thrifty Trifecta editors have asked for a 33 word (only) dialogue. This conversation happened many times over the years of raising my two daughters . . . and many times it has come back to them as they raise my grandchildren. I know you’ve been there, too . . . if you are raising kiddos.

He was a crusty old curmudgeon
Set in his ways
Happy was not a word to describe
How he spent his days
Until
The first grandbaby
Softened his core
Love at first sight
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Pic is of hubbymoose – taken this past summer on one of our take the grands fishing days. Love him and love the way he loves them.

the Trifecta challenge this week is . . . well, open to interpretation. 33 words using a diagram of the earth’s core, mantel and crust.

Thanks muchly to the Trifecta editors for making me their first Featured Trifectan. I am honored.

I wish you all a blessed Christmas and a future bright with hope and joy.

Christmas Eve with the grandchilluns . . . almost ALL taller than I am.
🙂


and a surprise for Christmas morn . . . 10-12 inches of new snow . . . and a loving group of grands to shovel us out. Love

Longest flight ever. Our first. I sat sandwiched in between an 8 year old bubbling with excitement and a 3 year old sobbing because she’d left her beloved blankie behind. Long day ahead.
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for the Trifecta weekend challenge: This weekend we are giving you three variations on a prompt. We need you to give us 33 words back, and 2 of those words must be either “cheap flights,” “sandwiched in” or “spectacularly clean.” This weekend, your piece must also be non-fiction (poetry or prose). And yes, we reserve the right to call your mothers and former lovers to ask for verification on your tales.

True story – first plane ride for all three of us – coming to Alaska to join hubbymoose/daddymoose who had come ahead by 2 weeks. There have been better flights since.