Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

Yep – you guessed it – another road trip this weekend!  We’ll be heading out tomorrow night after work for Kansas City so Burl can attend a Shrine event.  I’m swamped at work but have traded working Friday for coming back Saturday night instead of Sunday so I can have Sunday off and then work [...]

Recently my boss Steve and I had a conversation about our fathers and the tremendous influence they had on us.  We both commented on letters we had received from them and how important they were to us.  I got only a handful of letters from my dad (my mother wrote to me weekly for years [...]

We were on the road again this weekend – and this time our destination took us north to Des Moines, home of Ralph, Blair and their 2 beautiful girls who just happen to be 2 of our granddaughters.  Almost as good as seeing the little girls was getting a 3-day weekend.  We had hoped to [...]

When my girls were younger their main pasttime was making life unbearable for each other – kind of like my sister Susie and I did for years.  Of course Susie and I later became friends (after my nephew was born and she needed a babysitter!) and I had high hopes that someday Tammy and Ralph [...]

We left bright and early yesterday morning on the GoldWing along with 8 other motorcycles and 2 4-wheel vehicles in our group.  Destination:  St. Louis and The Shrine Children’s Hospital.  I remember when it was built in 1963 since my dad was a member of Moolah Shrine but I’d never gotten a tour. Our two [...]

….so little time!  Bought some yummy yarn today to start a baby blanket for the latest addition to our family – Baby Boy Brown is due right before Christmas so I got some super-soft silvery-blue yarn to knit a blanket and now I can’t wait to get started.  But first I must pack for a [...]

This evening we attended ”A New Taste” – a wonderful annual event which raises funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters which is a fabulous local charity.  We were treated to the pre-event which featured some yummy wine tasting and outstanding hors d’oeuvres followed by taking our tummies all around the venue to taste wonderful samples from Springfield’s [...]

We’ve had family under roof at our house for over a week and surprisingly I haven’t had the urge to run away from home.  Those who know me quite well (hi Tammy) know I’m an introvert masquerading as an extrovert when necessary but I really value my quiet time.  However with people going in all [...]

We’ve broken out of our dining rut in the last couple of days by trying two new places – last evening Tammy and Steve along with Len, Stacey, Alex and Tarah joined us at Pizza Stop to help spend the gift certificate I won on the radio a couple of weeks ago.  The decor is [...]

Earlier this evening we hosted our second (is it now “annual”?) pool party and picnic for our neighbors.  We don’t actually live in a ‘hood ourselves but the prior farmland in back of us became a nice subdivision about 5 years ago and as a result, I now have sidewalks and streets for walking and [...]