The Button Tin ~ I wrote this post about my late Mom-in-law, Flo, 4 or so years ago. Yesterday would…
Grandmothers
A story of Apples & Autumn, a Grandma with dementia and more love than is imaginable… This morning is cool…
November 20, 2013
Caregiving #Thanks Project – “Out of the mouths of babes”…
November is National Family Caregivers Month and AARP is sponsoring the #ThanksProject to thank an estimated 42 million Caregivers in…
July 6, 2012
8 Days and Wedding Counting!
Wedding Countdown: 8 days ’til Jane & Brian’s Wedding… “Something blue”… NanaFlo loved the traditional Old English Wedding Rhyme about…
November 2, 2011
Great-Grandma Rita is back in action!
3 weeks ago this morning, I sat for hours in the “family room” of my local hospital, waiting for the…
August 13, 2011
Grandma and a Bit of Bling!
Yesterday, I had a hair appointment. You know the kind… a few days overdue and get me in that chair…
July 24, 2011
The Im-perfect Bathing Suit
We’re having a heat wave, A tropical heat wave, The temperature’s rising… Ah, the truth of the lyrics of Irving…
June 15, 2011
2 Weddings from a Grandma’s Perspective
Ten years ago this month, on June 30, 2001, my daughter Audrey married the man of her dreams, Matthew. Ten…
Yesterday, I rolled my tuned-up Cannondale out of my shed. I put on my bike helmet and gloves. The day…
This Grandma not only knows NASTY. This Grandma loves NASTY. There. I said it. I can’t remember a time in…
A Today Show segment caught my eye a couple of days ago. It was about Boomer grandmothers who are rejecting…
October 22, 2010
Bushels of Apples in the back of an old pick-up truck…
I love Fall. I used to not love Fall so much. When I was young, I dreaded the darker days…
May 27, 2010
Lovely Rita
My Mom is not a tea-totaler. But she doesn’t actually drink, either. She’ll have a glass of wine maybe once…
April 28, 2010
My Beautiful Granddaughter Maddie Is Nine
My beautiful Maddie turns 9 today… and I wrap my heart around all the wonder and beauty and kindness and…
April 14, 2010
On turning 85.
Not me… my grandmother. Last night we celebrated my Grandmother’s 85th Birthday! This is my mom’s mother… and she was…
March 22, 2010
2 Tonka Dump Trucks, 3 Boys and 1 Grandma
Take a peek at this photograph. Can you see the tranquility of a lovely little New England town, with its…
March 17, 2010
Mashed Potatoes
I’m a bad, bad Grandma. It involves mashed potatoes. I know this because I got “the eye” from Audrey today.…
February 22, 2010
Half Marathon at the Hamptons
From the inception of the idea that I could possibly try to train for a Half Marathon… until the moment…
February 12, 2010
These boots are made for…
Some twelve or thirteen years ago, my girls bought me a pair of Ugg boots for my birthday. In velvety…
January 8, 2010
"Second only to watching my Mom open lingerie…"
Mom Lingerie is ONE thing you don’t want to see your mom opening on the holidays. Am I right? (Please…

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Audrey McClelland has been a digital influencer since 2005. She’s a mom of 5 and shares tips on her three favorite things: parenting, fashion and beauty. She’s also a Contemporary Romance Author.