I recently made a visit to Ottawa Hills Cemetery to see the graves for mom and dad. I had contacted the cemetery and they emailed me maps to help in locating their graves. Their graves are in section EE and plot 84. Map of Ottawa Hills Cemetery Bear in mind this comes from someone who […]
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Dueling cartoons I was the first to stick this one on the refrigerator door. When I read it in the paper I thought it was the perfect cartoon to describe the mental state of my son at the age of 14 or 15 or any other teenager for that matter. I thought it was terribly […]
It was easy to recognize the house at 5723 Yermo even though the lilac bushes along both side of the back yard were gone, and the poplar trees along the back of the lot were gone. What had been new construction when mom and dad built is now a street lined with huge trees. Amazing […]
Josh wasn’t quite 1 and Erik was days short of being 2 when the blizzard hit in 1978. Stacey wasn’t going to be born until that April so that meant Sandi was pregnant at the time of the blizzard. We were living out in the country and were snowed in with an 18 foot drift […]
I’ve been going through all the things I saved when Josh was a baby and will be posting those as I get them scanned. I found this cartoon I saved when Josh was only 3 months old because the truth of it struck me so deeply. Children look up at adults and think they are […]