Archive for January, 2010
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Feathers That Delight
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
In my original post on “The Sandwich Generation” I mentioned that one of the things Kip and I provided for Mom’s amusement were birdfeeders attached to the windows near her recliner. There are also other types of feeders near those to attract as many varieties of birds as possible. I learned from a friend that [...]
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Trains – Now and Then
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
My son Jacob and his lovely wife Becky, with their adorable two-year old Sofie settled into our home to watch Mom for four days. They had a little help from our beautiful 17 year old grand-daughter Tia as Kip and I boarded the Amtrack from Glenwood Springs to Denver. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center, downtown. Aaron and [...]
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Walls Closing In
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Ten months ago, the idea of having Mom live with me looked a lot different than it does now. I’m still committed, but I’ve had a major attack of “cabin fever”. Certainly it has a lot to do with being cooped up for days on end with Mom repeating the same things over and over [...]
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Trying to Get it Right
Friday, January 8th, 2010
How many of us have thought longingly “if only”. “If only I’d bought that property, invested in Microsoft early on, hadn’t put money into Enron, bought a larger life insurance policy for my spouse, been nicer to my mother-in-law who left it all to the other in-law, etc. etc.”
One of Kip’s “if only’s” is “I’d [...] -
Mom and a World Class Artist
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Last night, Dec. 26 2009, one of my boys (the one married to the beautiful Sandra introduced in “What About In-Laws?”.) took his wife, Mom and I and our friend Diana to Aspen. Our first stop was a quaint little coffee shop called Victorias. It was hardly a coffee shop – all the yummie-looking goodies made [...]