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Book Lovers Anonymous
At the risk of showing my age, Dick and Jane is where my reading career began. Shortly thereafter my love affair with all things books blossomed and when libraries entered the picture, well, lets just say that my life was complete!
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Hope Springs Eternal
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering "it will be happier"... thought the above quote fit rather well given that our word of the month is "hope", and if you ask my family they will tell you that I am always ready with a good quote for any situation. I felt this quote was particularly applicable given that we are entering year two of a pandemic that has seen us riding a roller coaster of emotions, making hope more important than ever.
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The Colonel and I
Yes, it is that Colonel…… Recently I had KFC (or Kentucky Fried Chicken as we of the boomer generation knew it) for the first time in over 10 years. To say that this was accompanied by a boat load of guilt over eating all that fatty, deep fried meat is an understatement. Being the responsible health conscious person that I am, I felt the need to confess my dietary transgression to my family and decided to turn it into a learning experience, by conducting a survey among family members. In doing so an interesting thing happened. Almost everyone I talked to, with little prompting, had surprisingly distinct memories about having…
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We’re Baaack!
Well, we made it through one of the most difficult holiday seasons in memory and cheered extra hard for the arrival of 2021, with hope in our hearts that better days are ahead. Rested and refreshed, the Sisterhood is ready once again to share our thoughts on all and sundry topics. To Resolve Or Not To Resolve, That Is the Question Overall, there seems to be a variety of opinions on the value of making New Year resolutions. We three sisters are of a mind that they are of limited usefulness and often end up making you feel worse than when you started. That said, with this year continuing to…
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Where is Clark Griswold When You Need Him?
The movie Christmas Vacation is a holiday favorite in our house. The adventures of Clark Griswold and his family never seem to get old. With COVID making family Christmas gatherings impossible this year, I have been thinking a lot about Christmas in our house growing up and realized that we had more than a few things in common with the Griswold family.
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Bad Haircut Hall of Fame
If you follow our blog, you will know that of the five children in our family, four are redheads. I am the lone brunette with poker straight hair in contrast to my sisters’ naturally curly locks. So perhaps I could be excused for having just a teensy weensy obsession with hair. With that in mind, when I was looking for pictures to use in our blog I did notice some questionable hair themes which I feel I must address. Betty Set the Tone In her younger years mom had beautiful brunette hair. But, she went prematurely grey and so I don’t really remember her with anything but grey and eventually…
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Sing, Sing A Song
Based on the title and picture above, you could be forgiven if you thought that this post was about the Von Trapp family and the Sound of Music movie. This post does involve a family with a lot of kids (ours) and singing, but not the big screen production musical sort. Perhaps it had something to do with our Irish heritage and certainly the times were very different. This was back when the internet and smartphones were the stuff of sci-fi, and TV consisted of three channels and watching it was pretty much confined to the Wide World of Sports on Saturday and the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday.…
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Mom Always Liked You Best
When one of my siblings recently said to me that they thought I was mom’s favorite, my first thought was who has time to have a favorite when you have five kids to raise?? But, when I thought about it, I wondered if it wasn’t that I was her favorite, but that she and I had many things in common. This was true from the moment I was born. Mom and I were both born in the month of October, in fact I was just a couple of hours from being born on her birthday. More than once mom said that she wished we had the same birthday. but alas,…
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A Woman’s Place is in the Home?
Like most women of her generation mom did not work outside the home. With five children to raise I'm sure she had days where going to work might have seemed like a holiday compared to the mountains of laundry to do, meals to cook and a house to keep clean! Once we five children were older and self-sufficient and, being the friendly people person that she was, mom wanted to work outside the home.
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I Married a Vegan
Well, it didn't start out that way. Forty plus years ago when we first met, my husband was your typical meat and potatoes guy. He has always been health conscious and works hard to stay in shape.
