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 / January 29, 2014
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I decided to download a free Application to my iPhone. “Only you would call it an ‘application’ Mum, it’s an app,” Daughts corrected me! A pedometer called ...
Vivienne / January 27, 2014
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I was out walking today and had my phone with me as usual, not for an emergency call if I fall and hurt myself because I don’t get service in most of the area around the lakes, ...
Vivienne / January 22, 2014
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This week my son and his wife made the first public move towards transforming their lives and heightening awareness of the Wild Life they are passionate about.
Vivienne / January 17, 2014
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Perhaps I was a little too close, but I was young and under the protection of my parents so stood fearlessly, feeling their warm breath on my face.
Vivienne / January 16, 2014
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My friend Renee Tougas, her husband and three children are planning a thru hike on the Appalachian Trail, starting their epic walk in Georgia in April and finishing the 2000 mile hike ...
Vivienne / January 15, 2014
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A few days back I posted some pictures of Daughts leaping off the page! A photographer friend she knows from Dallas asked her to model for him and she willingly agreed because she loves ...
Vivienne / January 13, 2014
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It is easier to put up the Christmas decorations than to take them down. As a family we all looked forward to getting the tree out, and decorating it, then hanging an assortment of ...
Vivienne / January 9, 2014
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I made a cake for the birthday girl, I found it on my favorite cake website. A panna-cotta filled strawberry creation! I am very good at trying out new recipes for special occasions, a ...
Vivienne / January 8, 2014
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"I know someone with a chandelier made of beer bottles," she said.
"You would!" I answered laughing out loud.
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
