The Miracle in The Birthday Egg
January 12, 2012 by Sharon
Filed under Grandparenting, Sharon
This is The Story of the Birthday Egg. The Little Birthday Egg is a gift from our oldest granddaughter, Taylor. I wrote about it almost 2 years ago as my family celebrated the Birthday of our beloved NanaFlo. Taylor gave this special gift to Barry and me on the day NanaFlo would have celebrated her [...]
“Good nite darling daughter – - – - xxxxxx”
This past Thursday was a drenching rainy day. I awoke to thunderously pounding rain… relentlessly pounding rain. I pulled back my bedroom curtain and saw what I heard. I mumbled, “Oh, man,” (or maybe something else). We were having a new mattress delivered that morning between hours of 8:30 and 11:30… and oh, THE RAIN. [...]
NanaFlo’s Clam Dip Recipe… for this Grandma
June 16, 2011 by Sharon
Filed under Family Recipes, Sharon
I had a hunkerin’ today for Clam Dip. It was a lovely summer day, and Clam Dip was what my mother-in-law Flo would have made for me today if I wanted it. I had a bad hunkerin’. Problem is, I’ve never made Clam Dip. Clam Dip was my mother-in-law’s specialty… her recipe… her domain. There’s [...]
A New Year Necklace… from heaven
My mother-in-law loved necklaces. Long, short, bold, elegant, colorful, interesting, subdued. Flo loved them all and could wear them with wonderful confidence. When Flo died, Barry and I carefully removed her necklace holder from behind her bedroom door and we took it to our home… necklaces and all. Barry carefully attached it with its two [...]
One heavenly gift…
December 10, 2009 by Sharon
Filed under Sharon, Uncategorized
Just before Thanksgiving, when still in the food shopping, preparation and house cleaning mode, I wrote about being drawn to the special drawer where I still keep many of my late mother-in-law’s special things. This drawer is the bottom right drawer of a white wicker 7-drawer bureau that belonged to Flo. Barry and I bought [...]
Who needs girls?
I wrote in my previous post that Flo, my mother-in-law, loved boys. This is the proverbial understatement. But I always suspected that somewhere in her psyche was lurking the mother of a daughter. I often teased her about this. “Come on, Mom, you know you would’ve loved a daughter,” I would say to her. But [...]
Happy 1st Birthday, Dylan!
Our youngest grandchild, Dylan Joseph, turns ONE today. It seems impossible that all those moments, all those days, all those seasons have turned into one whole year. Dylan is our 9th grandchild and our 7th grandson. Yes, there are 2 girls (each 8 years old), and then 7 boys in a row… and the boys [...]
The Keeper of the Goods
Barry’s birthday was one of the nights that Barry and I enjoy most of all. A celebration. All the kids. All the grandkids. And an angel. It has been rainy and unseasonably cool in New England this week, but Barry’s “back deck” birthday party went beautifully well. It didn’t rain. It was warm enough for [...]
A Purple Balloon
I believe in angels. I always have. I believe that when a person or animal passes… the aura or spirit of that being remains even as the body and soul head onward to the place where that being’s deity or divinity exists. And I believe that angels do have the energy to make us feel [...]
Love to infinity and beyond…
I know it’s not Wordless Wednesday yet… But I just had to post this photo of my 9 grandchildren sitting outside my mother-in-law’s (their great-grandmother’s) favorite restaurant, Jack’s, in Warren, Rhode Island. It was taken this past Sunday evening, the night before Flo’s 90th birthday. Barry and I first went to Jack’s more than 33 [...]
