A year ago yesterday, I said my “unofficial” good bye to my grandma. The circumstances were a bit of a fluke. I had mindlessly forgotten my bag at my parents’ house after a chaotic Christmas day spent with family. I left my son’s hockey tournament to retrieve it with my daughter by my side. She
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One of my favorite traditions in December occurs one week prior to Christmas and has little to do with the holiday. In fact it is a celebration of a different birth. One that occurred 94 years ago in 1922. It is the celebration of Sophie. Sophie is mother of three, grandmother of six, great-grandmother of
My husband and I spent the first two years of parenthood over a thousand miles away from everyone and everything we grew up with. We were on our own during those years and I think it’s given us a real appreciation of how much help we have today. After my dad retired, my parents starting
Randi is the newest blogger to join CTWM’s and her first piece delves right into some great parenting confessions! 1. I love picking at my children, and now at my grandchild. – I used to pay my younger son to let me squeeze his juicy blackheads. I had an entire kit of tools for this