Shelley's House

Happy Christmas everyone! I was amazingly organised (well, for me) this year and it has gone much smoother than in previous years....

This is probably how Grandmother looked when I came along. She stopped letting people take her photo not long after and threatened to...

Much as I'm amazed at how productive I am (well, relatively) now I don't write here regularly, I do miss this blog. I'm not resi...

I'm writing this back in April, having just been to a meeting of the WI where the speaker was talking about dementia. I wasn't much ...

If you read my post about Grandpa's birthday, you'll know I was looking for September traditions to remember departed family members...

Grandpa was born on this date in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1894, during what came to be called the Gilded Age .  The name came from a book ...

Today is Mom's birthday and I thought I might regret not having written about her; silly of me, I know.  I found her 1935 senior ...