Category: family
-
10 Things I’ve Been Wanting to Say to ADK
10. Thank you for the escape! We were surrounded by all of your natural gifts from morning to night and never even thought of turning on the TV. Also, having our wifi and cellphone connection wavering allowed us to put that aside as well. No news for a week! This allowed a sense of peace…
-
Finding Joy in Presence: A Poetic Reflection
Let me be lulled by the melody of your voice- the rises and falls, the acceleration, repetition and easing. Let me be infected with the joy of your smile and laughter so each cell of my body retains this energy once you depart. Let me be awed by the ideas, creativity and humor developed in…
-
Navigating Christmas Emotions: From Sadness to Joy
“Deck the halls”…with tearful smiles “Just like the ones I used to know”…. bittersweet memories of Christmases past “I’ll be home for Christmas”… oh Dad how I wish you could be “My lights on the tree, I wish you could see”… hanging ornaments from my mom “Through the years we’ll be together, if the fates…
-
A Table Teaches What It Means to Be Human
Each evening. exactly at 5:00 the family of 6 encircled a table- bumping elbows, knocking knees. horseplaying, laughing until the moment the food made by loving hands filled the table. Colored bowls filled with passed down recipes only known in the cook’s mind scattered across the surface, nearly fitting in the diameter. Squeezed in, around,…
-
10 Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to My Family Vacation This Year
Smoky Mountains National Park Bowling Green, KY Fork in the Road Mammoth Cave National Park Cuyahoga National Park
-
Freeze that Frame, Fill My Heart- Day 23 SOLSC
For years, I have been wanting to have my family videos that were on VHS C cassettes transferred over to video. Those were the very little video tapes that used to be used in video cameras in the early 2000s. These videos held the precious moments of my children’s infancy, toddlerhood and young childhood (about…
-
What Did I just Hear? Day 14 SOLSC
“You have been wearing the wrong glasses all year!” My husband went to his annual appointment with his eye doctor today. It began with discovering the exam might not be covered by insurance. While waiting for an answer from the insurance company, the doctor started looking at my husband’s glasses. He walked out of the…
-
Paczki Day- YUM!
(Pronounced puhnch-kee) ( Polish donut) Approaching the side door with my final steps from school, the sweet aroma of homemade fried dough mixed with cinnamon and sugar and the tartness of raspberry jelly inhales into my senses- a smile spreads across my face as my stomach rumbles with joy, IT’S PACZKI DAY! My mom had…
-
My Heart has Flipped
#VerseLove Day 9 Breaking the Rules Write a poem where you break writing rules. I wrote in my journal to get the format. I “broke the rules” by writing upside down and not in traditional lines across the page.
-
Traditions Tether Us Forever
One generation tethered to the next strengthening, cementing cherished customs and values so a precious heritage does not fade into nothingness as family members one by one are pulled away from the world. As I was getting out my Easter decorations, I was struck by how I am still doing things done by my mother…
Doodads and Doodles 