Christmas isn’t just about Prayer Bars and Aebelskivers for Recliner Man. It is also about two of his favorite movies, It’s A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story.

This year is was also about getting the perfect gift. Our daughter and son-in-law gave him a big brown box. On one side it was marked “Fragile”. […]

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Not long after I married Recliner Man he asked me if I knew how to make Prayer Bars. I had no idea what he was talking about. I had no idea what a sheltered and empty life I had been living.
Prayer Bars are little bits of Heaven that his mom would sometimes make at Christmas. […]

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Welcome to my holiday nightmare.
When I was growing up Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day all had nearly identical menus.  There were my favorites, mashed potatoes, gravy, fruit salad, warm rolls… and then there was the green Jello.
The green Jello was one of my mother’s favorite food items. She made it with lime Jello, green […]

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She has a name now and it is Abbey. We tried several larger names on her and they just didn’t seem to fit. She isn’t a regal or pretentious cat. She is just sweet and simple.

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 My mother’s personality is broken. She has Histrionic and Narcissistic personality disorders. She has suffered with this as long as I can remember, maybe as long as she can remember. Because she is so broken my entire family and all of it’s members have been broken in one way or another. I’ve been told that […]

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