Dear Ma, Happy birthday! If you were still here on earth, you’d be 97. Let me give you a run-down of the past year. Maybe you already know all of this, but I’ll tell you anyway. Lowell & I are as fine as good wine! We love living in our tiny home and traveling about… [Read More]
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Five Minute Friday: BEFORE
Kate said before. Not quite sure where to go with this word but I’ll wing it. We are just about to flip a calendar page and slide into March. Typically, I don’t like March but since my mom passed away in 2012 I’ve changed my thoughts about it. You see she was born on March… [Read More]
Five Minute Friday: NEED
Kate Motaung, hostess with the mostest, said NEED last night at the Five Minute Friday twitter party. I was falling asleep when the charge was given. I am one who NEEDs her sleep! Five minutes, go: We put our house up for sale last month – for sale by owner. My daughter came and we… [Read More]
Five Minute Friday: MOM
No partying for me last night! Kate Motaung and the Five Minute Friday crew gathered while I crashed! I find out she said… 00:00 This week I have honored some of the women in my life: my daughter, my sister, and my own mum on Quietude this Sonday. So today I am going to do… [Read More]
Quietude: May 7 2017
May, the month for all women to be celebrated! Growing up I was blessed to have a godly Mom and Grandma who continually poured good and Godly things into me. I wasn’t always appreciative! My Grandma Emily prayed John 17.15-17 over my sister and I every single day, when we began having children she prayed… [Read More]
so now arise and [take her place]*
The days of weeping and mourning … were ended. Deuteronomy 34.8c Hard to believe 30 days have passed since my mother entered the gates of heaven. So much has transpired since October 27th. My sister, daughter, and I cleaned out her small one-bedroom apartment; special things were shared with special people. Hand-written recipe cards are… [Read More]
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Teresa Marie Veronica Savard Chamberlain, “Terry” to her friends and family. Daughter Sister, both older and younger! Cousin Sister-in-law Wife Daughter-in-law Aunt Mother Mother-in-law Grandma “Ga” Great Grandma Great-Great Grandma Friend Born March 7, 1926, entered the Gates of Heaven at 7:29 a.m. on October 27, 2012 And the children of Israel wept for Moses… [Read More]