Tag: family
group name: childgrowup
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May 27, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
I saw someone else do this, so thought I would give it a try.
1) I remember that we sat down and ate dinner together each evening as a family...NO exceptions.
2) On Sundays my dad would kill one of our . . .
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May 30, 2007 12:15 AM EDT --
I grew up on a farm and wanted to share a few things that happened during those years. One time my car slid into the ditch, but there was nobody home to help me get it out. I called the neighbor, . . .
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March 27, 2007 10:11 PM EDT --
I was reading an article by Julie J., Why Are Role Models For Girls So Different Than For Boys? and I started thinking about the role models I have had in my life. I have to say that at this point . . .
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June 06, 2008 05:57 PM EDT --
We have central air, so I had no idea that it was as hot as a raging inferno outside. The kids got done with school and then my husband came home.
" Come swimming ," they said. . . .
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November 14, 2006 12:25 PM EST --
There doesn't seem to be a really "hot" toy this year...well, maybe PSP 3. I'm curious to know what children want this year. My nieces haven't told me. I know the older one usually . . .
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March 03, 2008 05:06 PM EST --
(Fictional story, yet based on my own experience. How easily the prejudicial hateful words of a parent can affect a young girl's self esteem)
Hannah sat on the sofa looking . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:24 PM EDT --
When we were children growing up in the fifties everyone went to visit their Grandmother. Our Grandmother lived in St Petersburg Florida. Every year we would take two weeks vacation and spend . . .
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January 01, 2007 07:34 PM EST --
When I was 15 my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. My family was devastated. She had a radical mastectomy, where she had one breast removed. We (my older brothers, and one older . . .
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April 16, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
I really need some help. I don't feel like I'm a good stay at home mom. I enjoy spending time with my kids, but I also enjoy working. I currently work in manufacturing, but due . . .
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June 06, 2007 10:37 AM EDT --
We were eight month twins and born in a small hospital, delivered by an old country doctor who had never delivered twins. Our Mother was having problems and the doctor thought she was going to die. . . .
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August 27, 2008 02:02 PM EDT --
Our youngest son turned 2 at the end of July so we had a small birthday party for him. Here are the shots from his party.
You'll see Rylan, my mom & dad, my mother in law & father in . . .
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January 04, 2007 10:35 AM EST --
My ex husband is in love with a man just barely 21, which is about 20 years younger than him. They live together. I have suspected that he was gay for a long time, but he has never . . .
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December 04, 2008 03:39 PM EST --
I got a nice invitation in the mail from a friend of my cousin Kelly. I think I mentioned something on here a while back about her and her husband expecting a baby in February. I mentioned something about . . .
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July 05, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
When my twin sister and I were in the third grade in school our parents decided to build a cabin on the Lake. We always spent our summers at the lake and we learned to swim like fish just by . . .
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November 27, 2006 01:55 AM EST --
You'll be pleased to know that my Annie Oakley impersonating days are long over.
Born August 13, 1860 in Patterson Township, Ohio, in a log cabin, Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee was dealt a tough hand in . . .
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November 16, 2006 10:26 PM EST --
She was livid when she found out I was no longer home she told them to keep me and hung up on them. They made several attempts to get her back on the line and even went to my house to talk to her. She . . .
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October 18, 2006 03:06 PM EDT --
Every summer a man leading a pony would come to our neighborhood to give pony rides and snap photographs for a modest fee. Such joy!
Here you see effort number two for me, summer 1958, age nine. . . .
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November 11, 2006 12:15 PM EST --
Have a goal. Strive through blood, sweat, and tears to reach the peak of your desire. Practice for perfection and never stop trying, even if think you reach a dead end. There is always . . .
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September 26, 2008 08:12 PM EDT --
Growing up, monopoly was "the" game in my neighborhood. We would leave a board set up at one of our houses and play the same game for days. It was a lot of fun. Now, I'm rediscovering the . . .
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November 26, 2008 10:39 PM EST --
Maybe you were stuck in an airport. Maybe someone inadvertantly invited your ex with the kind thought of giving you the chance to rekindle that young love. Maybe your sweetpotato casserole had a bad ingredient . . .
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