Tag: family
member name: Carol Voigts
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August 23, 2006 04:43 PM EDT --
Ella was born July 30, and I've been out in NJ visiting and "bonding" with her. Actually helping my daughter with getting back into the motherhood action. Her other child . . .
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May 13, 2006 11:05 PM EDT --
From a country girl to a city one
Flapper girl to a Depression teen
Her demeanor full of giggling fun
And Momma's grace already seen
Daddy swept away her heart
Long waiting years and then a . . .
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June 22, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
Love lies next to me
His body old and worn
Yet the small of his back
Is soft and supple still
The fullness of his gray hair
Is ruffled by my hand
His arm swings easily over my breasts
We embrace . . .
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February 06, 2006 04:58 PM EST --
Ben the Wonder Dog
We got him the year the twins turned three. Lively two were wearing us thin and they needed a wrestlin' dawg. This one was . . .
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April 17, 2006 01:51 AM EDT --
My granddaughter is deaf. Actually, with her hearing aid, and reading lips, she can do quite well, though I often have trouble understanding what she has said to me. I've not always been quite . . .
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April 21, 2006 01:12 PM EDT --
Aunt Helen Turns 100!
Yesterday my aunt turned 100. She's been living at the local medical care facility for almost 10 years now, and loving it! Lucid at 100, she's down there in the dining room . . .
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June 16, 2006 10:17 AM EDT --
There are fathers:
Who make their babies giggle and squeal
And some who feel a little strange around the baby
Who change the diapers
And some who can't seem to get the hang of it
Who fix the . . .
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March 02, 2006 10:07 PM EST --
Vacationing Back When It All Started
The country curtailed its leisure travel after 1929, followed quickly by the Great Depression. There weren't many cars in good repair, not much money, trailers . . .
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March 30, 2006 12:29 AM EST --
Gramma could cook! Every kid in the family wanted to be there when she took the biscuits out of the oven. Her fried chicken was definitely scrumptious and totally Southern style. The gravy she made could . . .
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May 11, 2006 09:49 AM EDT --
A Curious Man
Some called Dad a strange duck. Others admired him. Dad had the reputation as a walking encyclopedia. The family had learned early on not to ask him how the water pump (or any other contraption) . . .
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March 22, 2006 01:58 PM EST --
I remember the time I went to the Ellenburg reunion in Georgia. I believe it was at Aunt Hattie's in north Georgia. I must have been about 8 years old. Mom's family have had a yearly reunion of . . .
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April 04, 2006 08:05 PM EDT --
This is not something I wrote. It's part of one of those email letters that go round and round "please send this to 10 people who you think are old" kind of thing. But I thought . . .
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January 08, 2007 12:03 AM EST --
Plates are memories. I’m quite sure more than a few of you will understand immediately what I am talking about but others of you are a bit confused at my premise. Just what do plates have to do with . . .
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February 22, 2006 05:26 PM EST --
To be a opera singer means years of study----I mean years of study. Grueling study, long sessions in front of the voice coach, and a mirror, daily hours spent in the practice rooms at college or . . .
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March 29, 2006 12:24 AM EST --
"Gram, wait until you see the material I just got at Glen's!"
"Oh honey, it'll be perfect. Look at those oranges"
"Well, can we cut it out now?"
"Cut what . . .
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February 08, 2006 12:37 PM EST --
Cluttered Surface--Cluttered Mind??
I awoke this morning telling Jack that I wanted to accomplish three things today-- clean off the kitchen island, clear . . .
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February 09, 2006 12:59 AM EST --
The girls looked at me.
The look itself asked the question.
I was serving liver. It was delicious!
Everyone knew I served liver on Tuesdays.
Their cousin looked helplessly at them
Cindy grabbed the . . .
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December 04, 2006 10:48 PM EST --
I’m stuck with a 5 quart pail of cream cheese! Huh? You ask. Well, the story there is that my choir had a big Victorian Dessert Concert with apple dumplings, wassail, . . .
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February 15, 2007 10:35 PM EST --
While visiting with my cousin last week, he told the tale of how, as a little boy, he loved coming over to Uncle Don and Aunt Gert’s (my parents) on occasional Sundays. . . .
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June 23, 2006 12:25 AM EDT --
Patrick and Megan came up for a visit to my house these last 4 days. Two of my oldest grandchildren, at 15 and 14, they are delightful still! I was their first babysitter. We lived in the same town then . . .
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