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The story of her purse

Grama never let her purse out of her sight. She also never left the house. She always kept her purse next to her in her lap. Whenever I would visit, she would want to come into the family room from … Continue reading

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Grama Lanter Februrary 10, 1919 to February 7, 2012

Mom called me on Sunday to chat and mentioned that grama quit eating and drinking, sleeping erratic and fidgety; they were going to take her to the doctor on Monday. Monday I didn’t hear anything but thought they would probably … Continue reading

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The mother-in-law

Shortly after that last post with the photo of Dorothy’s mother, RAW went down for his regular visit taking that photo with him. A couple days later she asks RAW to call 911 because she didn’t feel very good. I … Continue reading

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Testing out the new WordPress changes.

  This is a picture of my mother-in-law’s mother. I think she died when Dorothy was 18. Or maybe it was after that, I guess I should go check on that. This is the only picture Dorothy has of her … Continue reading

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her first formal

Tonight Hollace went to her first formal dance at school. Acquiring a dress proved to be a bit of a challenge. Before I even knew there was a dance and she wanted to go, she already found a dress at … Continue reading

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Columbus Day camping

Over Columbus Day weekend we went camping to Mississippi Palasades SP. JoAnne from work as well as the neighbors (Jim and Barb) and their friends (Mike and Ivy) all camped as well. Since it was my idea I was in … Continue reading

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the last hurrah before school

I was looking for something fun for Hollace to do before school starts next week. I went about a web search for ideas. I zeroed on to things relating to anime. I was thrilled to find that they had an … Continue reading

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Finally on a roll

I am finally on a roll  with a design for nancysward.com and now I risk halting that roll by coming here to write. This last week RAW and Hollace went to Fort Wayne for their weekly visit to grama. We … Continue reading

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Vacation 2011

Warren Dunes State Park, Michigan Sunday, July 10 We started our journey to the south west corner of Michigan on Sunday at 1:00. Three hours later we were here. Hollace wanted to go to the Dunes. We have been to … Continue reading

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It was Memorial Day weekend in Manitowoc. It was nice to see the sisters and all the kids, not as nice getting home with the husband.  Probably 20 minutes into our trip back we get stuck in traffic. Yes, it … Continue reading

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