My Mom and Dad… and The American Dream inside the pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica – Back in 1965, my Dad had just retired from a 20-year career in the Navy and accepted a position as a salesman at a company that sold X-ray machinery.  He was still very young, having literally quit school at 16 and run away from [...]

The Christmas TIME “FLYER” December 15, 2010 by Sharon (Edit) Filed under Grandparenting, Sharon 3 Comments Barry and I have decorated our home for the holidays.  We’ve hung the stockings with care.  We’ve kissed little cheeks under the mistletoe.  We’ve decked the halls with boughs of holly.  And we’ve placed Flo’s little Christmas Tree, with the tinkling lights and little [...]

This morning, I began thumbing through my recipe books for my Thanksgiving feast ideas… and taking inventory of my Thanksgiving feast table and cooking stuff. I have beautiful gold table runners, all kinds of large serving bowls, platters and serving utensils, gravy boats, special holiday flatware and S & P shakers, humungous pots & pans, a roasting pan… And my [...]

I’m just saying… I’m so glad Matt’s mountain man phase is over. And I’m so glad I realized I looked better as a blonde.    

31 years ago this morning, just past midnight, I was pacing up and down the corridors of the “old” maternity hospital in Rhode Island. Barry had gone home… with the promise to return at the crack o’ dawn. These were the days when the Mom checked into the hospital the day before a C-section. These were the days when it [...]

I was over at one of my favorite blogs recently… and the post I was enjoying was about Halloween. And like a bat out of hello-1960′s… the Halloween memories came from their hiding places like ghosts from their graves. Halloween was the night of all nights when I was a kid.  I lived in New Hampshire when I was old [...]

I was trying to shoot a video a few days ago for Lifetime Moms, and I had to keep stopping because – well, the background in my house was a little loud. I couldn’t help but keep the camera rolling because this is a true slice of my life… and this was over broccoli. Oh, yes… over broccoli!

I was never worried about William and Alexander being together in preschool. Or actually, for that matter… Alexander and Benjamin together in preschool. I always just knew they’d be good together — call it a mother’s intuition. And I just knew my Benjamin and Henry would be just as good together, too (OK, I hoped…). Today was bittersweet. Henry’s my [...]

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. I began the task of [...]

Yesterday I was reading Audrey’s blog post What a difference 6 years makes… about how much has changed in the 6 years since her oldest little guy William was not quite one year old. This is true. But from my perspective as a Mom and a Grandma… well, just about nothing has changed. I see the same face in almost [...]