Tag: celebrate

  • Happy 64th Anniversary, Mom and Dad!!

         Regular readers know I celebrate special days. A week ago today, June 5, 2018, the special day was my mom’s 87th birthday. Today’s feature is both my parents as they celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary.      One week after my mom’s 23rd birthday, she and my dad, a not-yet-ordained minister, married in Rhode…

  • HAPPY 63rd Anniversary, Mom and Dad !! 2017

           Regular readers know I celebrate special days. A week ago today, our family noted  my mom’s 86th birthday, which wasn’t posted as usual,  due to site updating.        Today we celebrate both my parents in honor of their 63rd wedding anniversary. Yep, one week after my mom’s 23rd birthday, she and my…

  • Happy Anniversary to Me!! 2016 Update

    Yes, indeed, I am one fortunate woman, sharing my story and my joy with y’all. Ten years ago today, Easter Sunday that year, my visiting daughters stuffed me into my truck and headed to the small, local hospital, where doctors were stunned by what they found.  A fairly large mass in my head, so big…

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGHAN LEE, 2015

    Having begun what is becoming the annual birthday post in 2011, it is time for the new round of my daughters’ birthday posts. I have fun with them and hope you and the honoree do, as well.      Thirty years ago this evening, I met my younger daughter, Meghan Lee, for the first time. Weighing in…

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!! 2015 EDITION

    Regular readers know I favor Special Days. Often they are birthdays of people important to me.  And that is the subject of this day – the fourth edition of a birthday blog about my mom, a woman about whom I have rarely posted, other than teasing about the habits I believe I inherited from her. Today, my mom, Carola…

  • HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME!! 2015 UPDATE

     Yes, indeed, I am one fortunate woman, sharing my story and my joy with y’all. Nine years ago today was Easter Sunday 2006; my visiting daughters stuffed me into my truck and headed to the small, local hospital, where doctors were stunned by what they found. A fairly large mass in my head, so big that the…

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN LEE, 2014!!

    Today we celebrate Erin Lee, my elder daughter born 30 years ago tonight, just shy of midnight, changing my world forever. I knew she was going to be Erin Lee, no ultrasound needed. When I told my obstetrician that I was embroidering her Christmas stocking and already had her name across the top, he reminded me…

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGHAN LEE, 2014!

    It’s time for what is becoming the annual birthday post. Twenty-nine years ago this evening, I met my younger daughter, Meghan Lee, for the first time. Weighing in at just six pounds, she showed early signs of being her own person, struggling to be released from the hospital swaddling that her sister, a year earlier, had found…

  • HAPPY 60th ANNIVERSARY TO MY PARENTS!

         Regular readers know I celebrate special days.  Last week we celebrated my mom’s 83rd birthday. Today we celebrate both my parents in honor of their 60th wedding anniversary. Yep, one week after my mom’s 23rd birthday, she and my dad, a not-yet-ordained minister, married in Rhode Island, a long way from a farm in Shawano County.…

  • Happy Birthday, Mom – 2014 Edition!!

      Regular readers know I favor Special Days. Often they are birthdays of people important to me.  And that is the subject of this  day – the third version of a birthday blog about my mom, a woman about whom I have rarely posted, other than teasing about the habits I believe I inherited from her. Today, my…