Posted in Family, Genealogy, Life Skills, Uncategorized, tagged Austria, Carteret, Death, depression, Einstein, Ellis Island, Family, genealogist, grandfather, Model T, Ned Wayburn, New York City, NJ, nursing home, Penicillin, Singer Sewing Company, stroke, tap dancing, Ukraine, vaudeville on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been one year now since my Grandfather died at the age of 102.
This is the eulogy I wrote for him and read at his funeral.
What is a life? It’s not just an accumulation of seconds, hours, days, weeks, months and years but what we do with the time we’re given. No one who knew [...]
Posted in Education, Family, Life Skills, Moms, Parenting, tagged Family, Fourth of July, multiplication, multiplication trick, times tables on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had a great fourth of July weekend with my husband’s brother and his family. When our families co-mingle it’s like all of us being with our best friends. They went out of their way to make our stay a memorable one with good times, good food, good company. We are truly blessed – even [...]
Posted in Family, Life Skills, Moms, Parenting, tagged college, day care, employment, Family, gas, generation, infants, information age, jobs, kids, skills, Sunday drive, toddlers, traditions on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As the information age has unfolded, more and more kids go away to college and stay in the area where they went to school as opposed to settling in back home. Jobs and seekers of employment are not limited to a few areas; the world is our marketplace. My own family, since our last move, is [...]
Posted in Family, Health, Life Skills, tagged bi-polar disorder, BPD, faith, Family, God, mental illness, OCD, physical illness, prayer, trust, unknown on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sitting in an uncomfortable seat on the plane home, figuring I’ll pay for this flight with back pain for days, I’m desperate for something to engage my racing brain. In my frantic state to board with 10 minutes to spare, I left my books in the overhead compartment which I could not access for quite [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amniocentesis, aorta, birth, blessings, c-section, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, CHOP, faith, Family, fetal echocardiogram, God, grief, heart, holopros-encephaly, hope, husband, loss of a baby, loss of a child, miscarriage, mom, mother, prayer, pregnancy, tragedy, ultrasound on March 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I were married only few months when I had a miscarriage. With my second pregnancy everything appeared fine until I went for my checkup at 28 weeks. The nurse doing the ultrasound kept asking me questions…too many. What started out as my usual one hour appointment ended up taking [...]
Posted in Acadian ancestry, Family, Genealogy, Life Skills, tagged Acadian, anchor, comfort, cultural, cutoms, Family, Genealogy, grandfather, grandmother, holidays, Louisiana, mother, rituals, security, tradition on March 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Traditions are the carrying on of our social and cultural customs and religious practices. Traditions are the ribbons that tie one generation to another. They give us the comfort of familiarity, a sense of history, identity and belonging, be it through familiar objects, meals, rituals or beliefs.
Traditions don’t have to be just for [...]
Posted in Genealogy, tagged Acadian ancestry, Canada, descendant, Determination, Family, France, Genealogy, heroism, history, survival on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Genealogy is one of my passions. I am of Acadian descent on my father’s, fathers side and have, mostly in the last year or so, delved into that line of my ancestry. Few facts and records have survived the past 400 years to tell us, their descendants, the story of ‘from whence we came’. But [...]
