A Few Last Wedding Photos

Thanks so much for the thoughtful and kind and wise comments on my last post. I’m doing my best to answer each response, but it will take a while.  Meanwhile, today began with an 8…

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My Last Mother-of-the-Bride Dress, End of an Era. . . .

My daughter texted me from Rome yesterday to say “Gosh, what a nice postbut particularly nice are the comments!!!! I love your readers!” A great big Thank You from both Rhiannon and me for your…

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What She Wore — Word-less Wednesday Wedding Post

It was the sweetest little wedding, and before she flew back to Italy with her family, my daughter approved a few photos I could show you. They decided not to have professional photographs taken, and…

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Five Things Good Friday

We’ve been planting on the terrace — dreaming of it someday being festooned with fragrant honeysuckle so that we might be constantly pestered by hummingbirdds. . . .  1. The first thing I would have…

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How to Grandma — You Do You. . .

Little Girl’s Mama and Papa (that’s what she’s always called them, my DIL’s heritage being Italian, although the world around LG has her saying Mommy and Daddy more and more often) got home safely yesterday…

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