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You’re the Greatest!

Vintage Mom — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:39:13 +0000

To all the great moms on this site. You create, nurture and transform with your love in ways your children will always remember. Being a mom isn’t always easy – and some of our posts attest to that, but it is the most important job in the world. You, my dears are the molders of greatness! I hope your Mother’s Day was filled with love, as was mine.

Cold Hearts and PT

Vintage Mom — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:40:57 +0000

Last week I rounded up a couple of buds and we went to a falls prevention and how to get our decrepit bodies up off the floor if we do fall. I have to confess I am a complete failure at it. The presentation was terrific. Don Rapp, 81 years old, got down on the floor, sprang up from the floor over and over, like a 25 year-old.

Searching for a Potluck

Vintage Mom — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:08:31 +0000

My lima beans are in search of a Potluck!

Up to Spring!

Vintage Mom — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:44:12 +0000

When I moved to Tallahassee, intending to stay for two years, now stretching to 22, I missed the festivals we could go to almost every weekend in Central Florida. There was Springtime Tallahassee, but really little else.

Follow Up

Vintage Mom — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:16:08 +0000

The repairman arrived, I apologized for the piles in the great room, but I had managed to clear the table of paperwork, stacking it under the appointment calendar I keep on the counter by the phone. Stuck a tablecloth and a couple of little wooden ducks in the center and ya’ know, it didn’t look half bad. I had washed dishes and wiped down counters, so it wasn’t as bad as it could be if you were seeing it for the first time.

Silly, but True

Vintage Mom — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:31:38 +0000

I feel so silly. Here I am racing about my little place, straightening, clearing, scrubbing. Why? Because a new handyman is coming over. It’s like when you hire housecleaning help and spend the night before cleaning the house “so you shouldn’t be embarrassed.”

Spring is a Fickle Vixen

Vintage Mom — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:54:27 +0000

Ah Spring, but is it really? My instincts say “wait, don’t be lulled by the first days of warm weather we’ve had all winter,” but the yearning to get my hands in soil and plant is in a tug of war with my practical self. Then the temperature plummets to below freezing and I know we’re still in winter, dadgummit.

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Technocrazy

Vintage Mom — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:23:11 +0000

Yesterday the camel’s back broke. A mysterious package awaited me at the post office. Curious to see if I had forgotten something I had ordered, I opened the box. Nestled within was a new webcam I had earned from participating in dozens of on-line surveys from a market research firm.

Patience Needed and Make it Snappy!

Vintage Mom — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:15:11 +0000

Okay, I confess. Patience is not my virtue. There’s a Catholic joke about some saint, maybe St. Francis praying for patience, “and give it to me now!” That would be me.

Wednesday, Wednesday

Vintage Mom — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:06:54 +0000

Wednesday, Wednesday, so good to me. Should have been the title of the Mamas and Papas song to Monday, Monday. Wednesday means I’m halfway there. There is the weekend and the place working people like to go.