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Creating an advance directive aka living will is something most of us put off until later in life. My parents created their advance directive in their sixties. Charlie and I created ours in our forties. Why so early? Because of the growing health care needs of my parents and other elderly relatives, starting when I was in my late forties, I…
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As Carole says, I often have ten balls in the air at once and try very hard not to drop even one. Well, this past week my balls came crashing down! Tuesday was intended to be one last day at the beach with my girls before school starts. Both girls will be in school this year; Princess P is starting kindergarten and Princess Sweetie…
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My garden is a continual source of surprise. Especially, since I don’t have time to tend it. Weeds abound, gophers over run it creating veritable mine fields of mounds wrecking destruction of plants in their way. And, rabbits eat all the tender young morsels of new shoots I dare to plant in the hopes of having some new varieties. So,…
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When I last shared all 3 versions of my family’s collected Swedish Pancake recipes, I had 28 pancakes leftover from my 3 hour pancake-making, picture-taking, post-creating exercise that I dubbed The Casa Bella Swedish Pancake Factory. So, I froze them and included pictures of that process, as well. The original intent was to defrost them a few at a time…
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“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney Related Posts: Disneyland on a Dime Earning Your Mouse Ears
Learning to create a blog is like driving in Ireland. Everybody says, “It’s so easy. You just pick a host, click the button on the host page that says ‘start here’, follow the instructions and BAMM-O, you have a blog site and now you just starting posting.” (Side note: the above picture is typical Irish signage in both English and Gaelic [Irish]. …
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