Today marks the 3rd year this day holds great IMPORTANCE for our family. When our delightful granddaughter Ivy Grace was born with Trisomy 21 I had only a very vague awareness of Down Syndrome, let alone any real understanding. When her parents informed us of their prenatal diagnosis, my instant (and lasting) thought was “This […]
Category: Lifesytle
Life Choices and Happenings
Several years, back I was having a conversation with a collegue over dinner. He and his wife were finally going to renovate their basement. They had loved living in their home for the past three decades, but now that the children were gone it was no longer working for them. His wife had retired two […]
I believe a house should function for how you live. Or better yet, for how you have Dreamed of living…… after all, this is the ‘ME Stage’ of our lives now. When we were moving to Madrid, we knew guests would be coming to stay with us. Once we arrived in Madrid, we met friends […]
Wow! It seems like only yesterday we were preparing for our move overseas. And now here we are, back in Canada. For a year already!! Our four years in Madrid went SO quickly. There are so many things I never got to do! And so many things I did get to do! I have been […]
A few months before my recent trip to England to visit my Soul Sister Mel, I had read Tina Turner’s biography “My Love Story”. It was such a fascinating read!! I cannot recommend it enough. Towards the end of the book, she references “The Tina Turner Musical” which had just opened in the United Kingdom. […]
August 02 2018 I remember it well – walking down the sidewalk thinking “what is inside my skirt??” Turns out, it was Thigh Rub. I have long heard my girlfriends complain “I cannot wear dresses in the summer, as I hate the feel of my thighs!”. Now while I have always had ‘Violet […]
There are many items that I hand wash. Which means they might sit awhile before I get around to laundering them. As a result, I was finding that the shapewear, or tights I was wanting to wear, were often in the infamous laundry bag. My solution was, to simply shower with them. As I am […]
In July I was fortunate to spend 3 glorious days on the beach in Valencia. I have always embraced Topless Beaches (much to the dismay of my sisters). Spending time on one provides a lot of insight and self-confidence, whether you choose to go topless or not. There was NO ‘sucking in of the stomach’. […]
is a song from the 1956 musical ‘My Fair Lady’. With the lyric being The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Well I don’t know about that. And according to the Spaniards, it rains way more in the mountains to the north, than here on the plains of Madrid. What I […]
