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Today has been my grandparents 61st wedding anniversary. They are so beautiful! Happy Anniversary, Mormor and Morfar!

Also, check out this Swedish Princess Cake Mom made for Mormor's birthday today. Pretty cool! The flowers are real roses from their garden.

Today is my maternal grandmother's 91st birthday. I am the only person in the world who gets to call her Mormor. My mother's family is of Swedish descent - well, they emigrated in 1969, so really recent descent. In Swedish, the way you refer to your grandparents is designated by their specific relation to you. "Mormor" means mother's mother, and i am the only child of my grandmother's only daughter, so i am the only one who gets to call her Mormor. Last year, about this time, my husband and i, along with my 15 cousins, 4 uncles, 3 of my aunts, and my cousins' spouses, boyfriends, and children, converged upon my parents' and grandparents' home in Michigan to celebrate Mormor's 90th birthday and her and Morfar's 60th wedding anniversary. We were 40, in all, plus 2 on the way. I don't think i fully realized, at the time, that this was our last chance to kind of say goodbye to Mormor. Mormor is sporting a stubbornly healthy 90 year-old

I haven't written here in a while because i've been considering a ... change in tone and a possible blog remodel. I think i might steer away from politics a bit. But i received an email the other day, and i think i'll share this one with you. I've read about this email at snopes.com and truthorfiction.com, and by all appearances, this is the real deal. Check it out. House #1 A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South. House #2 Designed by an architecture professor at

Today, i was going to have the first chance i've had all week to get some real work done around here. I was actually looking forward to cleaning the floors! Well, i woke up with sort of a head cold, but mostly just extreme exhaustion - the kind that lets you know your body is working on something, and it won't let you wake up. I finally managed to get myself up barely in time to make lunch for my husband and make the kitchen sort of presentable. He went back to work, and i went back to sleep. Even when i've been awake, it has been sort of zombie-like. I've felt just awful. Well, my husband went to the store and got my all kinds of goodies like fruit and yogurt and juice salad, and i ate some of that good stuff and started feeling a lot better. Around ten or so, i got up and started cleaning the kitchen, which looks pretty good now. It's 1:20 a.m. now, and i just got out of the shower. I'm all ready to go, but my husband is asleep, and vacuuming seems inap