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🥰 words of wisdom...

"Don’t feed yourself only on leftovers. When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself."
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cw,

Oh, okay. I must have missed you saying that you had two little ones. Those are adorable ages!

I was definitely the fun aunt to my nieces and nephews.

I wish that I could see my great nieces and nephews more often. They don’t live close to me.
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The kids are just turned 3 and 5 1/2 and the littlest one is a handful NHWM, that's why we like to babysit as a team.
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cw,

How old is the baby? You’ll work something out.

Is the child old enough for an Easter basket? You can bring Easter treats with you.

My grown daughters call me to ask if I am making them baskets! LOL

I don’t remember when my mom stopped making our Easter baskets. I know that it was before we went to high school. My girls were still asking me in college to make them a basket.

I made my mom Easter baskets but I only put a little bit of candy in hers because she wasn’t a big eater. I put pretty soaps, hand lotion, sometimes a pair of earrings, etc.

My daughters still want candy!
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So google maps says 2 hours 39 minutes if I avoid highways (yeah, no 401 or 403 please), bet nobody has ever considered someone who sticks to side roads and occasionally may travel gravel roads too.
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Sis and BIL and I were supposed to travel to nephew#1's to babysit next weekend (they have booked a romantic overnight getaway) and then hang around for Easter dinner but now that BIL is in the hospital that has put all those plans up in the air. If BIL is still in the hospital I suppose sis and I can still do the babysitting, but if he's sent home he'll need someone here with him.
I just told nephew we'd figure something out even if I have to drive there myself😱
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🥰  had a very empathetic conversation with a government official today.

me: i'm here to take care of these papers for my parents.
official (smiling/sincere): you're a very good daughter.
me: thanks!
official (smiling/sincere): it's not alway fun to be a good daughter.

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that felt really good to be understood, even by a stranger. 🥰
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🥰🥰🥰 today's words of wisdom...

"Yes, the harsh truth is that life is - not - fair. But we do the best that we can in spite of that."
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Thanks PBear, its strange because a message she sent me was gone this morning but back now. I'm seeing her name on posts again. How bizarre
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Catskie, I noticed that too. I'll report your post to Admin.
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What happened to Needhelpwithmom?? I'm seeing references to her posts but not the actual post.
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🥰 today's inspirational quote...

“The will to succeed is important,
but what’s more important is the will to prepare.”
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cwillie, I tend to have a love affair with emergency vehicles, so I would be happy as a clam.

But for those who have a history of being taken to the hospital via 911, it could be unnerving to keep hearing the sires and horns. Especially someone who wasn't familiar with the food drive. They would think something terrible was happening in the neighborhood and should they evacuate.

I remember visiting the step-grandkids when they were young, it was Christmas time, and the local fire department had Santa on the truck, and was driving through the community. One grandchild started crying as she thought Santa had gotten hurt, and no amount of convincing her that he was ok. She still was upset the next day.... [sigh].
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Our local firefighters are having a food drive this morning and are rolling up and down the streets and blasting horns and sirens - does anybody over the age of 3 really like that?
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What a trek!
Said birds must be penguins, petrels and terns.
Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies! 🤪🛸👽
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not canada.
believe me, meters and meters of snow. you have no idea what i went through to get out my front door, and make it alive to this cafe, where i'm typing right now. the birds have no idea how i made it either. they watched me.
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”Meters” of snow? Are you in Canada? I am. We have bare patches of lawn but about 30cm/1’ (I’m bilingual) of snow in the shade of the woods.

Maybe the birds are frustrated. 🎶 Chirpity chirpy chirp! 🎶
“We’re freezing! Why won’t anyone take us seriously?! Dang our melodic sweetness!”
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hi everyone!

i'll continue to be mostly gone from the internet.
in case anyone's wondering where all the snow is, it's HERE.
spring.......? oh boy. spring, with meters and meters of snow. the birds are totally confused, but they continue to sing like crazy at 5 am. how do birds manage to be in such a good mood every day?

bundle of joy :)
❤️🙂
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Need: How interesting that your DH was offered a job near Boaton.
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Ana,

I love Danes. I wanted one so badly but my husband didn’t want a dog quite so large.

I see Danes at the dog park when we take our granddog there to play. Huskies need so much exercise, so when we are dog sitting it’s easier to take him to the park to run and play.

We went from a mini schnauzer to a greyhound. The schnauzer was sweet but a yippy yappy pooch, the grey was a couch potato! I loved both of them. They lived to be 13 years old.
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NeedHelpWithMom, it rarely dips below -30F here and we average about 15F in the winter. My Great Danes are old, so they’re satisfied with half mile jaunts, like to meet the school bus and get the mail. They are indoor dogs but have the run of the property while outside. The male shadows us indoors and out. Mr Curious.
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Ana,

How do your dogs handle the bitter cold?

My daughter lived in Colorado for a couple of years. She is back home in New Orleans now.

Her Siberian husky misses the colder climate. He loved playing in the snow in Colorado.
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Margaret,

That’s quite an accurate description of some places in November!
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Way,

Hawaii would work! 😊
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Yikes Margaret, that’s pretty bleak!
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For Anabanana, from Thomas Hood:

No sun — no moon!
No morn — no noon —
No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.
 
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member —
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —
November!
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I'm up farther than that Anabanana, Windsor and Leamington are the extreme banana belt 🤣.
But the snowdrops I planted last year beside my driveway are blooming today and people with sheltered yards do have crocus, some heavy rain last week really pushed things along. Now if only the rest of the snow would hurry up and disappear.

(sounds like we probably aren't all that far from each other)
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Cwillie, if you’ve got crocus and snow drops in bloom, you must be in or very near Windsor, my home town. Now I’m a bit northeast, in that strip between the banana and snow belts.
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I am in the banana belt of Ontario so I've always counted March as the first month of spring, we may still get plenty of snow in the coming weeks but by March the sun is strong enough that you can see snow melt even on days below freezing and the early birds arrive and hardiest snow drops and crocus start to bloom. When the spring peepers and toads start to sing it's a guarantee we're well on the way to warm weather - it's still always magical to me :)
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Anabanana, March is cold and windy here, when I’m yearning to get outside more.
November , although it can get gray and yes no leaves, there is something crisp and fresh about the air and when the sky is not grey , it can get pretty deep blues in the afternoon.

Need, You should live in Hawaii . I’ve been there twice . I tagged along when my husband went for a business trip, then we stayed a bit longer . Best beach island weather .
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