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  • Recipe Saturday Stories: Stories I Found Out Along the Way
    Saturday Stories: Stories I Found Out Along the Way
    When I started out to record the stories of my family, I mainly wanted to get down the stories of my direct ancestors.  I suppose it's a natural thing to do; to concentrate on your line and let of the branches of the family slide.[...]
  • Recipe Saturday Stories: B-52 Stories
    Saturday Stories: B-52 Stories
    Flying in an airplane may be safer than driving in a car, but I think those statistics depend on how often you are in an airplane. When your job is to fly in an Air Force bomber during wartime, you may find yourself wishing for the[...]
  • Recipe Search Stories
    Search Stories
    My bad! I thought my pool was 50 meters in length, but it turns out it?s only 25 meters. Ooppss? I guess that goes to show how very little I know about swimming, right?!?! Just as an FYI: I?ve already gone back and changed the originally[...]
  • Recipe Success Stories
    Success Stories
    Since April is child abuse prevention and awareness month, I have been reading blogs that are participating. One of these blogs is linking stories of success of foster/former foster children. I have hesitated in writing this, for many reasons, but I[...]
  • Recipe Doodles & Stories
    Doodles & Stories
    Today, my awesome friend Krysta , who also has a creative blog about her artistic talents has made me a paper doll. I find her doodle super cute and I just had to post it as my face book picture and here on my blog,especially when you[...]
  • Recipe Stories in Cake
    Stories in Cake
    I though it might be nice to share some of the stories behind the cakes I have made. I made this cake for my sister and her husband four years ago. The cake ended up published in Australia Sugar Craft magazine.  Here is a copy[...]
  • Recipe More Bear Stories
    More Bear Stories
    They seem to be all over the place.  It's a little too many bear stories in a short period of time for my liking. Jack Hanna, the famous zookeeper, while hiking with his wife and a few other people in Montana's Glacier National Park,[...]
  • Recipe Good News Stories
    Good News Stories
    News Item #1 - in case you don't read our other blog, Nibblet News, the blog about my son, Nate; I became his official second parent/mother on Tuesday.  Liz and I had our adoption finalized at Family Court, tying us together in the eyes[...]
  • Recipe Saturday Stories: Letters
    Saturday Stories: Letters
    Along with old pictures, legal documents and stories from old memories, I have saved letters written to me from my grandparents and some from my dad when he was flying bombing raids over Vietnam.  Today, I dug out a couple from Bumpa to[...]
  • Recipe Saturday Stories: Swimming
    Saturday Stories: Swimming
    My mom was not allowed to swim when she was a child.   Because her brothers and sisters had died by the time she was eleven, her parents clamped down on all "dangerous" activities.  Mom wasn't allowed to hike, camp, ride horses or[...]