Dear Mom, Happy Mother’s Day 2011! I tried to write another sappy “You’re the Best!” Mother’s Day letter but I think I’ve told you every year about how much I love you. You really are the best and, as much as people think it’s a joke, I’m very proud to tell people, “I’m my Mother’s [...]
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A Mother’s Day Letter to my Mom
Posted in Family, Mom, Mother's Day on May 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Officially a Golden Girl – July 6, 2007
Posted in Birthday, Insurance, Mom, Work on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While others were lighting fireworks, watching fireworks, or creating fireworks, we were celebrating my Mom turning the page on a new chapter of her life. On July 4 my Mom turned the big five-oh. That’s right 50 and one of the hippest 50-year-old Mom of three boys in the West. Unfortunately, we didn’t celebrate her [...]
More Anniversary Stuff – August 16, 2006
Posted in Anniversary, Family, Grandparents, Mom on August 16, 2006 | 4 Comments »
My parent’s anniversary on Monday went well. They went out to dinner then we went up to their house for some cake that Lis made. Mom and Lis picked blueberries and Dad, Lukas, Erik and I hung out and played frisbee with an ice cream bucket lid. Today my Grandparent’s were the featured “Love Story” [...]
Thirtysomething – August 14, 2006
Posted in Anniversary, Dad, Erik, Family, Mom, UJ on August 14, 2006 | 5 Comments »
This week our family celebrates two milestone wedding anniversaries. On Monday, August 14, my parents will celebrate 30 years of marriage. On Friday, August 18, my Grandparents will celebrate their 50th anniversary. Thus the video of “Remember When” by Alan Jackson, perhaps the best anniversary song ever written and recorded. Today I will share my [...]
Happy Birthday Ma! – July 4, 2006
Posted in Birthday, Mom, UJ on July 5, 2006 | 10 Comments »
It’s so nice of everyone to celebrate my mom’s birthday with family get togethers, barbecues and fireworks. She really appreciates it. This morning we went to my Grandparent’s house and had breakfast then in the afternoon we went to a park nearby and hung out, had a barbeque and did nothing. Just what I like! [...]
All About the Moms – May 15, 2006
Posted in Grandparents, Lis, Mom, Mother's Day on May 16, 2006 | 3 Comments »
A year ago we celebrated perhaps our best Mother’s Day ever! Lis was released from the hospital a day before her first Mother’s Day, and who was there to celebrate with us, but her Mom, who had flown in from Brazil two days earlier and her Mother-in-law (my mom), who had spent the past 30 [...]
Sorry Mama! – May 26, 2005
Posted in Mom on May 26, 2005 | 7 Comments »
Okay, this is just a quick entry to apologize to my Mom about what I wrote in the previous blog. She was very upset – emotionally – about what I had written. I didn’t mean to hurt her feelings, just to vent my own feelings. She does understand that my mother-in-law is only here for [...]
Sweating the Small Stuff – May 25, 2005
Posted in In-Laws, Mom, Nonsense on May 26, 2005 | 12 Comments »
I told myself I wouldn’t do it. I’m a changed man now. I’m not going to get upset over the little stuff after what has happened with Lis. I mean going through this was supposed to make me put things in perspective. And what do I go and do? Get upset over the small stuff. [...]
A Trip to Lynden – May 21, 2005
Posted in Cancer, Dad, In-Laws, Inspiration, Lis, Mom, MSN's What's Your Story, Randy, Support on May 22, 2005 | 25 Comments »
A few weeks ago I decided to share our story online and put my journal I had been writing on Word, on the internet. Friday, I went to show my Mom my blog and noticed that I had 17 comments under one of the topics. I was surprised. I had gotten two comments in the [...]
Mentally Exhausted – May 3, 2005 – Day 26
Posted in Cancer, Chemo, Hospital, Lis, Mom on May 5, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I’m spent. Mentally exhausted. The weekend brought so much promise and now its back to the usual. Monday Lis was tired and I spent maybe two hours there cause she was asleep the entire time. Today, she was sleeping for most of the night. She woke up around 8pm though and showed flashes of the [...]
