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Diamonds, dirty knees and Slurpees

Some of my favourite childhood memories have happened on a ball diamond.  I played for a few years as a preteen, in my cobalt blue uniform and giant white hoop earrings.  The coach, Wayne, was a friend of our family, and I in all my brevity hollered at the team introductions "Can I call you Wiener?!"  The look I got from my mom and stepdad, I thought I was dead meat.  The kids all laughed, but of course, they are 10-year-old kids.   I didn't think he would mind, heck that's what we all called him, off the diamond of course.   Lesson learned, just because your parents do something, doesn't mean you get to.   We spent months on the bleachers, getting candy and hotdogs from concessions, running in knee-high weeds that show up as an allergy so bad your eyes are swollen shut; me being the team babysitter for all the runts the parents wanted out of their sight.  I was decent, if I recall correctly.  I wasn't scared of the ball, so I could hit, and ...
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Garth. Part 2. The Part that matters.

The concert is at Caesar's Palace in the Colosseum theatre, late on Sunday evening.   I am warned by my husband don't come back to the hotel wasted or crying (happy tears he's referring to).  I am warned by Ticketmaster that this is a phone free concert.   I'm a bit annoyed at that, seeing I just spent a mortgage payment on the tickets, I want to have hours of footage to reminisce on.  But I can't change it so it is what it is.   The show is on the day we land, so I am tired as hell by the time we eat dinner.  We have been eating and drinking and swimming all day and it's finally time for me to walk to the venue.  I know the Strip in Las Vegas very well so it takes me no time to get there.  I'm early and the doors are still shut but the crowd is gathering.  4,100 other people waiting for the doors to open but I'm right at the front by the entrance when a lady walks by asking what seats I have.  I tell her and she hands me a lanyard. ...
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The Vegas Trip. But I really mean, the Garth trip. Part One.

     We are creating family traditions, slowly but surely, as the four of us get older, we are making new memories and going on adventures.  Some are here in Calgary, some in Las Vegas.  Which should come as no surprise to most people.  M and I sat down at the beginning of the year and made some plans to pay down some debt, fix up some things arond the house and start saving for a trailer.  Our 10th wedding anniversary loomed in the spring and short of a little trip to Canmore we were going to lay low.  But then I got my bonus from work.  VEGAS BABIES!       Did some shenanigans with WestJet with some credits and vouchers and we're booked.  We tell the girls about a month in advance and start our calendar countdown crossing off the days until we leave.   It falls on our May long weekend,  a week before the US May long, and it shouldn't be too busy.   We look at pictures from last year, we talk to death ...
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Vegas Baby!! *ahem* Vegas, with our babies !?!?

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  Hope you have a coffee, a wine or at least a good chunk of time to enjoy this one :)  **Please note, lol, I started this on June 27th 2022.   It is now July 28th 2023. 🤷**      Since the days when Covid first locked us all in our houses we dreamed of the vacations we'd take when we were finally allowed to travel again.  We talked about Europe, nah, too far.  We talked about NYC again, nah, I need more than 4 days there.  Vancouver?  Nope, more expensive than Vegas.   So, Vegas?      I've been sitting on a WestJet credit since March 2020 watching it burn a hole in my pocket so we bit the bullet and booked a vacation in October 2021!  YAY!  Mike and I away for three short but well needed days away, sun shining, eating and drinking our way up and down Las Vegas Blvd!  And then we did the math.  On a dirt cheap trip, $1050 bucks to be exact, we were going to have to pay $600 for pre-travel testing.....
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The Great Sleepover Weekend!

These stories are getting harder and harder to write, not for lack of desire or content, but lack of time.  The days of sleep deprivation and diapers are long gone but they feel like yesterday.  What do they say? "The days are long but the years are short".   That is true as shit, itellyouwhat.   Two small and mighty girls are getting bigger by the minute and the attitude is proof.  But every now and then something happens and the stories just flow.  This one I'll call the Great Sleepover Weekend.  Madison, if you didn't know, is Miss Popularity so every February I anticipate all of the birthday invitations to roll in.  We know she'll get invited to lots of parties in March (for some reason her closest friends are all March babies).  Her best friend Sansa is included in that of course because in a strange fluke, her birthday is the day after Maddy's.  Her second best friend is two weeks after hers.   In the past 6 weeks she's been a...
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The crack in the door.

I'm struggling with time lately.  How I spend my time at work and at home, time for myself, my relationships.  Just time.  There's never enough of it, and when there is, time it goes by in the blink of an eye.   I could tell you that Madison is six going on sixteen and you'll believe me, but I can also tell you that she just graduated Kindergarten and you'll believe me.   Both statements are true.  One however was 63 days ago and I swear it was last week.  Her graduation certificate is still hanging on the fridge, the thought of Grade 1 looming so far in the future I couldn't imagine it.  And now there's 14 days until school starts.  My email is blowing up with Back-to-School sales and things I need to to order before September.  What I don't think is helping me that at work we are always planning one or two weeks in advance, so my brain is always ahead of where we actually are.  I don't have any way around that, but I know that a ...
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