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Today

Posted on April 18, 2006 | Leave a comment

So the inevitable day arrived. I helped my son Greg pack up all his belongings and get his car ready for his big adventure.

I was “o.k.”, emotion-wise, just up to the moment I had to say good-bye and then I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I feel so bad about that because I know what it feels like when my dad does this each time I leave from a visit with my folks in Maryland (where my son is headed). I’m still weepy as I write this, but I’m trying to keep myself occupied with other activities.

After getting his dog Sokrateez groomed Greg will head out towards Wyoming and has promised to call me this evening when he stops for the night. I’m guessing he’ll have to stop somewhere between Cheyenne and Denver.

It’s spring – and changes

Posted on April 16, 2006 | 1 comment

Wow, I haven’t written here in a really long time. I’ve been so busy with school and other activities that I haven’t taken the time to blog about important personal things.

So here’s an update:

School has had me very busy with organizing service-learning projects and activities for the school. Not to mention all the end of the year “stuff” that accompanies teaching. Additionally, we have to move our school and still have not secured a location (but we are close!).

I’ve been extremely busy with green party activities and have become more active with the national party, taking on important roles at that level

I decided to run for office – something I think everyone should do at least once in their lives. I’m running for Salt Lake Couunty Council.

It’s the beginning of tabling season, meaning that there will be lots of fairs and festivals where I will be helping table with the green party and the peace organization in which I participate.

It’s spring, so that means gardening. We have our back garden almost all the way tilled. We still need to get our contracted plow guy to come plow and till our front field. We’ve planted lettuces, spinach, carrots outside and inside we have about 6 varieties of tomoatoes coming up, as well as basil and cauliflower. We are still waiting for peppers to come up. I’m just about finished using everything up I froze and stored from last summer. I still have some corn and squash and chard in the freezer and some winter squash on shelves. Today I’m making a vegetable lasgna using tomatoes, squash and corn from last summer.

We are planning our summer travels. So far, we have committed to traveling to Tuscon for the national meeting of the green party of the U.S. July 27 – 30. After that we will head to Maryland to visit my family.

It’s hiking and almost mushroom hunting season. We all know what that means! 🙂

Sadly, my 21-year old son, Greg, is leaving Tuesday for his trip to Maryland to live. He is having a lot of his items sent by pallet (his stuff will be shrink-wrapped) on truck tomorrow, which is a lot cheaper than shipping his stuff. He will be driving, so he is likely to roll into Maryland Friday or Saturday. Needless to say, I’m nervous about him doing this by himself, but that comes with the “mom territory”. I am making him take my cell phone and have turned on the “share with network” feature so that we can track the phone if we need to. Today and tomorrow we are helping him pack all his belongings.

I haven’t menstruated since around Christmas time. I wonder if this is “it”. My mother was 45 when she stopped. I’m 46. Still having hot flashes – some extreme at times – and palpitations,etc. But…..I’m still medicine-free! Taking tinctures and eating right and exercising. So far, so good.

So that’s about it in a nutshell. I’m going to try to blog more here on a regular basis.

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Skin Cancer

Posted on January 28, 2006 | 2 comments

My dad scared me today.

I called him as I always do on Saturdays at 9am. He answered the phone as usual and after we exchanged greetings, he said “Well, my surgery was a success!”

Uh……what????

Shocked, I said “What surgery?”
“Didn’t I tell you?” Dad replied.
“No you didn’t!”

He proceeded to tell me that he had had a malignant basal cell carcinoma (BCC) removed from his ear. He had complained about it when I was there at Christmas, but never mentioned it to me after. They had to graft skin from his thigh to place on the part of his ear where the cancer was removed.

The good news: They got it all.

My dad has had issues with skin cancer ever since I was a child. One of my earliest memories was when I was 6 years old and my dad had a cancer removed from his head, which he had to keep bandaged for weeks.

Dad said he feels guilty for not wanting to go out into public with the way his ear looks at the moment.
“I should just focus on the good part…..they got it all.” I chuckled. At 76 my dad is healthy and just as cute as ever.

I’m sure that my dad’s absent-mindedness had him forget to tell me about the procedure (he’s always been like that) because he usually tells me of these things.

Needless to say, I have promptly written to my siblings with the request to please inform me of any surgeries or procedures anyone in the family has scheduled……just in case my dad forgets!

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Also today in history….

Posted on December 2, 2005 | Leave a comment

…I gave birth to my beautiful daughter, Emily, 16 years ago. Out of my three wonderful children, Emily is the “baby”.

Happy birthday, Em.

Christmas gifts

Posted on November 30, 2005 | Leave a comment

I wanted to do something special and unique for my family this year for Christmas. This past summer I took as many digital photos as I could of my mom’s photo albums of all our family members – from my grandmother on up and all around. I am taking those photos and making calendars with photos of family members – on the months of their birthdays and anniversaries and also collages, etc. on the other pages.

Fortunately I have one of those machine-thingys with which you can put calendars together with the plastic spiral spines.

One challenge is fitting in photos on months with multiple birthdays – There are 3 birthdays and 1 anniversary in October, for example!

Here are some photos of me that I took from my mom’s albums: