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Happy Anniversary!
My parents have been married 44 years today. I don’t have a picture from 1965 on my computer, so I’ll share this one from 1985. It was my own wedding day… and it startles me to realize that I’m within a few months of being as old as my mother was when I got married! How could 23 years have…
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Sweet 16
Has it really been 16 years since I first held her in my arms that snowy January evening? It seemed we had waited so long… we had been married 7 years. That was a long time? Then tell me how 16 years could possibly have gone by so fast? When I was about 16 I discovered this poem that stuck…
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Happy Birthday, Dad!
As I was looking through some old pictures, I came across this one of my dad when he was a teenager. He was probably 17 or 18 in this picture, and it was obviously taken in December. It was probably not too long before he went away to Bible college. (Or maybe he was home from college for Christmas break.)What…
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My Calendar Plate
My mother always uses her “good china” for special occasions — Thanksgiving, Christmas, company dinners — and when I was a little girl, any time the table was set with Mother’s good china, I had the privilege of eating from this “special” plate. See? It’s a calendar of my birth year!I have four siblings and none of them had a…
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Turkey for Thanksgiving
I’ll be roasting a Thanksgiving turkey breast this year, rather than a full-size turkey. My family plans to spend the holiday weekend at the Oregon coast, and as there are only 4 of us I decided just a breast would be plenty. My daughter and I plan to do most of the cooking ahead of time. We can just reheat…
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The Great Depression
I wonder what it was really like to live through the Great Depression. Oh, yes, I’ve read about it… seen movies about it… heard my grandparents talk about it… but truthfully, I have no concept of what that would be like. As I’ve been going about my daily routine the last few days I’ve been wondering… Would it save money…
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Baby Shoes
Earlier this week, when I showed you my pioneer nook I had a comment about the “little black shoes” that I have tucked in on one of the shelves. So for today’s Vintage Thingy Thursday, I thought I’d tell you about the little black shoes! The shoes are definitely “vintage”… but they don’t go as far back as pioneer days!…
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The Wedding Prayer
The first Monday of the month is Marriage Monday at Chrysalis. Since June is the most popular month for weddings, the topic this month is Our Wedding Day… even for those of us who didn’t get married in June! The guidelines asked us to share anything we wanted about our wedding day, so I am choosing to share the lyrics…
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Heritage
I’ve been reading recently in the book of Joshua, and this past week the story of Rahab caught my attention. It’s a familiar story… of how the harlot Rahab protected the Israelite spies and then was spared when the city of Jericho was destroyed. She went on to become a respected member of Israelite society, marrying a man named Salmon.…
