Tag: family
member name: Elizabeth S.
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October 19, 2008 06:52 PM EDT --
My son is a genius, my daughter is a jock. That was how I thought of them. In 8th grade my daughter was unhappy about having to take algebra. She was the dumbest kid in the class. Her teacher said she . . .
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November 08, 2008 06:29 PM EST --
I love the title of this group. My mother is now a Jones, so there is a lot of keeping up to do.
Two years after my mother became a widow, she was talking about dying in the next year and a half. . . .
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December 01, 2008 05:56 AM EST --
My father's brother and my mother's sister got married about five weeks after I was born. Now my aunt may have thought my uncle was a good catch since he graduated from college at a time when . . .
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December 27, 2008 03:38 PM EST --
I think Gather has gotten mixed up with my life. It seems like any event makes me wonder about the story on Gather.
I live on a block off a busy street. We're not a through street to anywhere as . . .
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December 30, 2008 06:39 PM EST --
My ex lost his father this last year and his mother passed away years ago. This Christmas he had planned to go visit his adult retarded sister who is living with their aunt. Initially he planned on visiting . . .
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May 23, 2009 03:19 PM EDT --
With Memorial Day celebrated Monday, it's a good time for remembering not only military personnel, but also our ancestors. This year it falls on my grandfather's birthday, so family is foremost on my . . .
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May 30, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
After posting my rant about some of the Freecyclers I've had come by the last week, I couldn't wait to tell you about the great experience I had today.
The lady arrived without calling, but she had . . .
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August 09, 2009 10:42 PM EDT --
I ran into someone's post today that I had taken off my friends' list because she depressed me so much. Now, I must enjoying complaining, since I do so much of it, but there is a point where it's too . . .
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September 17, 2009 08:17 PM EDT --
My daughter called me today. That's unusual because she's part of the IM generation. (I don't text) She was excited about my mother giving her the family china. My mother had asked if I wanted it, but . . .
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January 21, 2009 03:28 PM EST --
We have no cable and an online rental service for DVDs, so we have been renting some popular cable series. I've been appalled that plot and character development in three of these series have little . . .
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January 10, 2009 04:45 PM EST --
My mother announced Christmas that she and my stepfather were looking into retirement villages. This was a surprise on many levels. Since they got married almost 33 months ago, neither wanted to give . . .
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November 19, 2008 09:11 PM EST --
I used to cook everything from scratch. My 2 year old daughter and I would go to the produce stand many mornings to get farm fresh eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes for her breakfast. As the years passed, . . .
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November 25, 2008 02:25 PM EST --
Heaven must have a special place for the ignorant. Either I thought that I had the genes to be a good cook since all the women in both sides of my family were or I was so dumb I thought it was just a . . .
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December 08, 2008 02:05 PM EST --
There's something about sharing birthdays that is special. In my family it started with my parents. Both parents were born on Jan 28, although 3 years apart. No way either could forget the spouse's . . .
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December 22, 2008 03:48 PM EST --
This has been a good Christmas time. I've spiritually been in a good place to celebrate Jesus' birthday. I'm not a big shopper though, and I'm tired, cold and hungry.
Til today. Yesterday . . .
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February 08, 2009 03:03 PM EST --
With all the advertisements everywhere about Valentine's Day, our attention is constantly being drawn to love. Love seems to be something we define differently. We hear the man who killed his wife . . .
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August 08, 2009 06:19 PM EDT --
Today I picked up about 20 t-shirts from a freecycle offer. As I'm going through the t-shirts, it's strange how much I'm learning about this family. One child, probably a girl, played clarinet in a local . . .
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November 25, 2009 09:33 PM EST --
Are you ready? No problem getting ready, since I only have to take one dish. We're having it at my brother's house this year. It's a little bittersweet since the last time we had Thanksgiving at his house . . .
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December 10, 2009 09:16 PM EST --
This year I've been fixated on Heifer International. The organization finds families in need and supply a source of food and profit for both the family and the community. For a small amount of money the . . .
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May 30, 2009 05:53 PM EDT --
After posting my rant about some of the Freecyclers I've had come by the last week, I couldn't wait to tell you about the great experience I had today.
The lady arrived without calling, but she had . . .
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