Vivienne / February 11, 2024
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There are a lot of fields surrounding us but since our land is bordered with trees ...
Vivienne / December 28, 2014
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Despite the fact (or because) my birthday falls five days after Christmas, I scarcely have 24 hours in which to settle into being an unwanted six (or 30 something) when kindly neighbors ...
Vivienne / December 25, 2014
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Merry Christmas! You may enjoy hearing my children’s memories of their childhood Christmases over at The Sociable Homeschooler. Or you may just want to read this beautiful poem ...
Vivienne / December 24, 2014
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My oldest son has returned to town, or more accurately, to State, and before you say, “Ho-Hum I know this story…” it’s not what you’re thinking (Luke ...
Vivienne / December 22, 2014
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Not having pretty fields to walk through or a lake to briskly hike around has deterred me from stretching my legs these past weeks. Before going to California I was enjoying taking my ...
Vivienne / December 19, 2014
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Life at my son’s house is anything but ordinary! We are busy visiting Simon and Lindsey as they begin a new phase in their married life only that story will have to wait for the ...
Vivienne / December 17, 2014
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Pouring lattes is a skill, rather like life, it takes plenty of practice, spawns challenge after challenge and calls for a lot of laughs! I enjoy the photos Daughts sends me and as a ...
Vivienne / December 15, 2014
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I have plenty of places to walk here in the metroplex of Dallas but none of them safe enough to wander around without a dog. I need you, my little Skye, to keep the squirrels and cats ...
Vivienne / December 12, 2014
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My good friend in words says this in his book, Great Day Every Day, “Gratitude is always an option.” During this season of Thanksgiving and Advent when we look forward to ...
Vivienne / December 10, 2014
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My children always enjoyed hearing me read out loud to them. I would make birthday tapes and CD’s of their favorite books each year. One of my sons has told me that if I would ...
Vivienne / December 7, 2014
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I have always slathered cream on my face, morning and night, to keep my skin from feeling taut. As I ploughed through the decades I reckoned it was time for me to be a little more ...
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
Recommended Reading:
Dominion
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
Hannah’s Child
In this award-winning memoir Stanley Hauerwas gives a frank, transparent account of his own life interwoven with the development of his thought. Unique to this paperback edition is a new afterword that offers Hauerwas's reflections on responses to Hannah's Child.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
