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Grandma's place: Shaking my booty...

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Monday, July 6, 2015. Let's see, for my 64th birthday I only got a few things from my loving husband: a trip to Maui with two visits to the best restaurant in the world, a new electric car, and a pair of paniers for my bike. I believe I made out like a bandit. The new car, the old bike, new paniers, old me. I couldn't figure out what he had in mind since I hadn't been hinting for anything in particular. Next came this kind of...

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Grandma's place: Moving in Maui

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. And suddenly, you realize you can't look at the sun. I was actually fairly alarmed when my husband told me about the bike ride down the volcano in Maui. He was so excited that he didn't even consider I wouldn't want to go with him. He practically had his biking gear all packed before I could even go on the website to check it out. I signed on before I really thought it through. We watched a movie on th...

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Grandma's place: October 2014

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Thursday, October 30, 2014. A penny tax saved. At our house, we rarely talk politics because one of us is Republican and the other is wrong-headed, one of the few Democrats in the state. We tend to stick to safer topics. And, since we have both been journalists for most of our married life, we don't usually get very involved in the local politics either. Marc got on his bike and rode on over. Salt Lake City has the ZAP tax.

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Grandma's place: March 2015

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The Easter Bunny's sweat shop. Easter is always hard on my brain. We try to host "Grandma's Easter Egg Hunt" every year and with the blending of two families and 33 grandkids, the math is too difficult for me. But it quickly involves multiplication and division. We want the hunt to be worth attending so each child should be looking for a dozen or so candy-filled eggs, right? Hours of endless fun.

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Grandma's place: November 2014

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Saturday, November 29, 2014. Marc and I have been contemplating the purchase of new outdoor Christmas lights for a while now. We have some snowflake lights we bought a few years ago that we've never really liked. They're "cold" lights instead of "warm" and they look kinda chintzy. Since Marc is the one in the household who puts them up every year it seems he ought to get a say in what we do. Today we bit the bullet. Marc and ...

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Grandma's place: September 2014

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Friday, September 12, 2014. The Treasure Island Catan game. To pass the time, Marc and I play games when we travel. We used to play a travel Scrabble game that had little teeny tiles on a kind of board that folded open and held the tiles — except when we dropped one on the way to the board. Then it required some serious bending and stretching to find the tile under the seats. We could play waiting for our food at a restaurant...

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Grandma's place: Giddy up!

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Thursday, July 16, 2015. Ellie and Adell, Spartacus and Captain. We were surprised and happy to unexpectedly have two of our granddaughters stay the last couple of days of our Bear Lake vacation with us. They're both 9 and they get along great even though they seldom get the chance to hang out together as one lives in Lehi and the other in Smithfield. We want to do that! Marc and I looked at each other. The girls were thrilled.

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Grandma's place: April 2015

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Saving money the hard way. There's nothing my husband enjoys more than haggling over a purchase. If there's something wrong with a sales receipt or the price rings up wrong, he's out the door before I can start making my fuss. It pains him physically to have to make a return. So when the computer at Shopko refused to recognize the three $5 off coupons I had in my hand, he was uncomfortable. I had dra...

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Grandma's place: Falling leaves...

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A blog site about grandchildren, children, parents, husbands and whatever else. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. I promised to post updates on how we're liking our new electric Leaf so here's the latest in my educational series. We still like the car. We enjoy being the owners of a Zero Emissions vehicle and we spar over whose turn it is to take it. However, some of the realities are coming to light and I've made so much noise about the benefits of going all-electric that I need to share these things too. We are...