Share A few weeks ago my mother’s wedding ring fell from her finger while she was shopping in town.  Now, this is a small town…so there aren’t that many places to look. But my mom lives a half hour from town and only goes in about once a week so she makes it worth her while. On this particular day, she took a friend with her…so they hit every available shop in a half mile radius…all of Soldotna. When she arrived home to find her wedding ring was gone, she couldn’t imagine where to begin looking. She made some calls, [READ MORE]

Share We’ve all been there… I’ve had friends…who I loved…who I couldn’t imagine my life without. Friends who were dear to me.  Friends…best friends…you thought would stick around forever. And then you move. Or they do. Or something happens and life just leads you in opposite directions. You swear to remain close. You call, you write, you think of each other.  And then one day you are talking about them to someone else and say, “I used to have this friend who….”  Or “I knew this person who…” And suddenly, someone you know became someone you once knew. And you [READ MORE]

Share Tuesday was my 19th year of sending kids off on their “First Day Of School”.  And as I slowed down in front of the building and shoved them all out, it dawned on me that I have 9 more years to go. And that doesn’t include college.  Or the grandchildren I will likely end up raising.  Haha… Twenty eight years of driving kids back and forth to school.  Twenty eight years of backpacks and pencil boxes…lunch sacks and hair braids.  Twenty eight school years…thirty two years of the day to day grind of raising kids. And then what? When [READ MORE]

Share My phone rang late tonight.  Normally I’d be worried, but it’s Alaska in the summertime…there is no such thing as “too late to call”.  And I love living in a world where someone calls in the middle of the night to pass along a garbage bag of frozen corn.  I’ve had similar calls involving moose meat, salmon, caribou and once, sixty pounds of frozen burritos.  It’s a world where things don’t go to waste and nobody’s needs are overlooked.  It’s a world where “politically correct” is always trumped by being neighborly and a garbage bag is a perfectly suitable [READ MORE]

Share By Best All-Around Mom Blog Uhoh…I’ve fallen into second place!  If you’ve not voted…please take a moment! It requires you to create and “account” by inputting your email and a password…so if you’d rather not, I won’t be mad! THANKS!Keri