As I mentioned in my last post, my granddaughter just passed her first birthday. My husband and I were privileged to visit her for the occasion and to celebrate with her, her parents, and other family members. We had other reasons for making the trip, but I timed it to […]
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A Birthday Celebration and A Few Old Posts
Today, October 4, is my husband’s birthday. I searched through my post archives and found that I have only written one post specifically about his birthday. That was four years ago on a milestone birthday, and the post turned very philosophical. This year is not a milestone birthday. Those come […]
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Happy Birthday to My Daughter, and Memories of the Last Family Graduation
My daughter doesn’t appreciate most of the posts about her on this blog, but today is her birthday, and so I am thinking about her. Her birthday is in May, and most of her graduations have been in May, so there have been many May celebrations in her honor. Today […]
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Happy Fortieth Birthday to My Son
My son, my first child, turns forty in a few days. It certainly does not feel like forty years ago that I gave birth to him in a bad snowstorm. I wrote about his birth in an earlier post, so I won’t repeat that here. I’ve written many posts about […]
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On Birthday Cakes for Children, Then and Now
I mentioned in an earlier post that the employee cafeteria at Hallmark Cards where I worked used to bake and decorate special-order cakes for employees to purchase. They would even match the cake decorations to the party goods that Hallmark used to sell. In my efforts to simplify my life […]
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Random Photo: Spring Tulips and a Birthday Clue
I had no good ideas for a post today, so as I sometimes do, I looked through old photographs for inspiration. This time, I was looking for something spring-ish. And I found a snapshot of my brother and me examining spring tulips. I didn’t remember this picture, but it was […]
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Vaccine Envy . . . No More
I wrote in early February that I was eagerly awaiting my COVID-19 vaccine, but at the time I thought it was still a few months away. I turned sixty-five this past Monday, which made me eligible under Missouri’s rules. I always expected that my birthday would give me little preference […]
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Baby Boy Hupp: What’s in a Name?
I wrote an earlier post about my son’s birth. I put his first baby picture in that post, but what I didn’t say in that post was that at the time of that first picture, the only name that baby had was “Baby Boy Hupp.” That’s how the hospital labeled […]
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On Hallmark, Haircuts, and the Persuasiveness of Grandmas
I thumbed through a photo album of my son’s baby pictures, trying to think of something to write as a birthday post for him. His birthday is later this week. In the album, I found two photographs taken by a photographer at Hallmark Cards when my son was almost a […]
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Thoughts of Life and Death on My Husband’s Milestone Birthday
In a couple of days, my husband will celebrate a milestone birthday. One that ends with a big 0. I’ll let you guess which one, though I will say that it’s getting harder to claim he is still middle-aged. Plausible, but harder. We know many people who are older than […]
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