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It is a wondrous thing to watch a child grow into adulthood. Last year, we had the pleasure of spending time with our granddaughter at her very first apartment. This year, we were able to enjoy nearly a week with a grandson at his first apartment. Distance and circumstances meant that we haven’t always been able to spend as much time with our grandson as we would have liked. We missed some milestones, particularly during

Read this the other day: “Give me coffee to change the things I can. And wine to accept those I cannot.” Hmmmnnn… we don’t actually drink coffee or wine, so maybe chocolate would be the appropriate substitution all around ?

Like a lot of folks with a front loader washer, we found that there seemed to a spot in the rubber ring around the door that accumulated a little water, lint, and some other “material” that really shouldn’t be described. Whatever the composition-it smelled! We sought advice online and from local friends. We consistently were consistently told to be sure to wipe down the area after each laundry load. We did that, maybe not every

I chatted with a frustrated mom today. She was lamenting the fact that her teens are “just impossible!” As she described the precise actions that were making her crazy, I couldn’t help but smile. I reminded her, ever so gently, that we used to have this same conversation roughly ten years ago when her children were toddlers and were driving her insane. She had forgotten that she can use the same simple measures today that

I’m quite sure Willie was uncomfortable with the way I was staring at him as we sat in the well-appointed dining room of the Lamont Manse. It was the culmination of our genealogy efforts over the past couple years. We certainly never expected to meet the current gracious head of Scotland’s Clan Lamont Society, so when she offered to host us in the ancestral home, our excitement was incalculable! It felt surreal to be sitting