• Family,  Helping Others,  Play,  Relationships,  The Adult Years

    The Three Amigos

    This was a fun picture to find and I love it.  I may have to print this to frame.  I have always heard the stories bantered back and forth when my Aunt and Dad got together and started reminiscing about their younger days.  They were close in age and had a lot of the same friends.  I always marveled at their relationship from that time because as an adult, I only saw their relationship after it had deteriorated, and become contentious.  There was a feeling of superiority from my aunt to my dad and I saw her treat him with disdain and a condescending attitude more often than not. So,…

  • Childhood,  Family,  Play,  The Adult Years,  Travel

    Tackling the east coast in 2 weeks back in ’93

    . Disney Cousin Bill and Mary’s house Rosemarie and Tom’s house Craig and Deb’s in Valdosta Aunt Pat and Uncle Bill’s in New Jersey After I got divorced, vacations were a solo parent event.  The first year, the four of us spent a week at Papoose Pond in Maine, camping.  It was the first time I had camped as an adult and to say it was a learning experience would be an understatement. So, the following year, buoyed by the confidence from the year before, I decided to take the kids to Florida – mainly to go to Disney.  Amy had been the year Adam was born but the others…