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 / August 20, 2012
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My boys moved out of the house they’d been sitting for thirteen months. Their family home. I told my zoo keeper, as I foraged around to add to his meagre possessions, “Take ...
Vivienne / August 16, 2012
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It took us a few weeks to feel well enough to make an out of town visit to our school teacher daughter in Corpus. We made the drive at the beginning of the month in our brand new car, ...
Vivienne / August 15, 2012
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After being back for three weeks I am beginning to breathe better. The amount of dust I’ve had to tame with a wet cloth was enough to create our own McNeny dust-bowl right here ...
Vivienne / August 14, 2012
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My son relayed this news to me this evening. It affected several people including one of his close friends who works with him. All it took was a nano second and poof, life the way they ...
Vivienne / August 13, 2012
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I have decided that the time has come, the time is now, for me to take a good look at myself and start a “Loving Me” program! So I went for a microdermabrasion. Today was my ...
Vivienne / August 9, 2012
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My Barista daughter has a job at Starbucks, she managed to transfer from England without a break in her service and now is eligible for benefits. She had to write a note for an elderly ...
Vivienne / August 7, 2012
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I am a baby boomer, at the young end but booming all the same. Some of my contemporaries are complaining that boomering is slowly fading them into invisibility. A visiting priest at my ...
Vivienne / August 6, 2012
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While I was in England I thought I would take advantage of being in the same country as the boarding school I went to and attend a reunion. There were so few of us at school, 125 aged ...
Vivienne / August 2, 2012
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Part of arriving home after a baker’s dozen of months abroad is the visiting and catching up that needs to be done. That is as long as we are up to it! For some reason both of ...
Vivienne / August 1, 2012
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I was woken by Hubs (not deliberately I hasten to add) tossing and turning next to me. We were two days from the BIG MOVE home and he was dreaming. Except he wasn’t, he was awake ...
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.
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