Families, Gatherings, Changes…Ah, Life, You Keep Me on my Toes!

 We’ve had a golden year of having all four of our kids’s families living in one city. Not so golden that they’re all in our city, but we do have a tiny apartment in theirs, and…

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Is Nana Wearing out her Welcome?

  It’s definitely been all about the grandmas round here, whether mine or my children’s or my own doting Nana self sharing photos and anecdotes. I did offer up a little What I Wore the…

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Throwback Thursday …. Grandmas and Granny Dresses

My English grandma and I, the summer my dad flew her out to visit us, 1966, something like nine years since we’d seen her, four or five, I think, since she’d been widowed. My Dad…

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Little Wonders. . .

We came to Vancouver for this little one’s birthday, and my, was she happy! What a delight it is to have a wee girl’s face light up at the very sight of you…Nana! Granddad! I…

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Great-Grandmothers and Grandmothers and Mothers, Remembering and Forgetting

Lisa’s eloquent post on her thoughts, as a mother, on her own mother’s decline, prompted me to begin articulating some of my thoughts about the passing of the generational torch, as I’m observing it in…

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