We celebrated a very special birthday in our family yesterday. My dad turned 85! My siblings and I and our spouses (minus my sister who was out of town), celebrated Daddy with dinner out, birthday cake, and a movie my dad wanted to see—The Darkest Hour—because, as he said, "I remember those days!" There are a lot of wonderful men in my life—my husband, our sons and sons-in-law, my brother, and … [Read more...]

So, last week my husband and I spent the better part of an entire week either in bed sleeping or shivering by the fire under a blanket. Sadly, we had that awful 2018 flu that's making the rounds. I know a lot of you have had it too, and it is NO FUN! After sleeping, literally 90 out of 96 hours at one point, we started to feel like we might be back in the land of the living. It's been a slow climb … [Read more...]