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How Many Days of Christmas?
The Jenster Clan ditched the winter wonderland of the East Coast and hopped a plane (or two) for SoCal to spend Christmas with Mr. Jenster’s side of the family. Since every day is an adventure when you’re West side it should make for some fairly decent blog fodder. “Fairly decent” meaning same mundane but with…
Read MoreA Happy June
June has been quite a month. A great month, really. From really close to the very beginning. I think I’ll tell you about it. The first week of the month it became much too apparent that we needed a new washer and dryer. I was running the spin cycle a couple times, sometimes up to…
Read MoreHe Speaks!
About two weeks ago I had a texting conversation with Taylor. I told him we bought a new car and he asked when we would be driving it down south to see our son. We’d had a weekend trip planned in March and one in April, but they both came to naught and our next…
Read MoreA Jenster Christmas In Review
Another Christmas has come and gone: food prepared and devoured, gifts unwrapped, games played and movies watched. Christmas morning these days is nothing like it was when the kids were little. Yesterday morning Todd and I came downstairs around 7:30 or 8:00. I threw a hash brown casserole together and tossed it in the oven…
Read MoreNoThanks – Day Twenty-Five
Today I’m thankful for my parents and everything they taught me. I had a really great childhood. It was happy and secure and I never questioned whether or not my folks loved me and my sisters. I was never worried they would divorce and always knew there was nothing I could do to make them…
Read MoreNoThanks – Day Twenty-Two – Memories
Today I’m thankful for memories. Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday when I was growing up. Better to me than even Christmas. Turkey Day usually meant a long weekend in Northern California with my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and people I wasn’t even related to but thought I was. Both sets of grandparents…
Read MoreNoThanks – Day Nineteen
Tonight I’m thankful for a great celebration of the anniversary of my 39th birthday! The morning didn’t start out so well. I had planned to leave early so I could stop by Starbuck’s and get my complimentary birthday beverage. Everything was running on schedule, but I didn’t account for my chatty family. Or the loose…
Read MoreNoThanks – Day Eighteen
Today I’m thankful for lazy Sunday afternoons, delightful naps and the comfort of having everybody under the same roof. These are a few of my favorite things.
Read MoreNoThanks – Day Seventeen
Today I am thankful that Taylor and Shelby had a safe trip home from college for Thanksgiving break. ’nuff said.
Read MoreNoThanks – Day Fourteen
Today I am thankful for busyness. If you know me, I mean really know me, you know I don’t like busy. Too much busy makes me crazy and then I start feeling overwhelmed and I just want to run away and hide in the back of my closet. Not on the side with the shoes…
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