String o' Pearls

It's my birthday today.  I'm 68.  (Gulp!  How did THAT happen?!) My husband and I are the same age--he turned 68 almost exactly a mo...

I'm on a roll here, feeling exceedingly nostalgic about my childhood and getting a bit teary-eyed over grainy little snapshots from the ...

Our firstborn son's identical twins girls turned 13 a couple of days ago.  I can hardly believe that these two sweet young ladies, the o...

Today is our middle son’s 38th birthday.   He is the most pleasant, easygoing, fun person to know: whip smart yet humble, a sports fanatic, ...

Hey there, 'member me?  LOL! (No really, do y'all remember me?) I used to post here pretty regularly, and now I drop in about once a...

Well, it hasn't been QUITE a month yet since I last blogged (almost, but not quite!).  I left off with this post , from May 19, which c...

Yes, I’m a married woman (it’s been 41 and 1/2 years now!).  So what’s up with title of this post?! Well, you see, that’s the way I think of...

Last Sunday, we had a family get-together to celebrate the late January/early February birthdays in the Pearl family.  Son #5 turned 29 in J...

What a wonderful weekend for our family! On Saturday we celebrated the birthdays of three little peeps (grandsons who are about to turn one ...

I always look forward to the 7QT posts Colleen Martin shares here each week.  This funny, bright, devoutly Catholic, happily married mother ...