Shoutout to my Dad for joyful birthday wishes! Love you lots and wouldn't change a thing about ya!
Happy birthday, Dad!
Category: Family
Spending time with family
More photos of Mom
Thanks to everyone who has been sending me photos of Mom! I also found an old hard drive with many photos too! Here are some more photos. I'll continue to update as I keep finding them. If you haven't already then please take a look at my Mom tribute. ❤
Mom ❤️💕
This Thanksgiving was especially difficult for me because of my Mom's regressing health. It was an incredibly exhausting weekend both physically and emotionally. I haven't talked much about it out of respect for her, and for my family's, privacy. But with many aware by now, it feels like the appropriate time to discuss it, and [...]
Fall festivities
Today, I visited my aunt and uncle, also got to see my other aunt and uncle, as well as my sister and cousin! It was a fun day full of fall festivities. It started with arts and crafts. We made "peg people," which are wooden doll figures you can paint (I also added sequins to [...]
Throwback Thursday ~ Ocean Grove
I am very bummed about Ocean Grove being cancelled this year. OG has always been my favorite vacation. I have never missed a year at OG... NEVER! Not since before I was born! So this is super upsetting. But I can look back on all the amazing memories... This was a special vacation for me [...]
Throwback Thursday ~ baby pics
Me, Mom, great aunt Laura Me & great aunt Laura Gram, siblings/cousins, & me Grandmother & me Siblings Father & me Family
Throwback Thursday ~ silly mirror pics with the sis
It was a random night in 2006, my sister grabbed me and said, "let's take a bunch of pictures of ourselves in the mirror..."
Fastnachts 2020
Today I was with my relatives for the annual fastnacht-baking festival. Fastnachts are traditional Pennsylvania Dutch doughnuts made from potatoes. The dough is cut, rises, and then we fry it. Before: After: Traditionally they are eaten on "fat Tuesday" in preparation for Lent. We just eat them fresh off the fryer. And there's always plenty [...]
Castle on the hill
Today, my parents visited and we went on a guided tour inside the Fonthill Castle where Henry Chapman Mercer once resided: he was an archeologist and tile maker. Snow walk I've never actually been INSIDE the castle! It was incredible with 40-something rooms and we only saw about 15 or so. Mercer read over 6,000 [...]
Merry Christmas (catmas) 2019!
I spent Christmas 2019 with my family in NY. On Saturday, my aunt and cousin visited. We went to an art museum, had a diner lunch, and watched Christmas movies. Julie and Priscilla bought themselves a joint Christmas present: the "Friends" Central Perk coffee house Lego set. Because you're never too old for legos... On [...]
Primeval Pixie 