Vivienne / October 1, 2024
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The year 2020 was an odd one and when I went to write my Christmas letter I had a ...
Vivienne / March 27, 2024
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Hubs and I stopped attending our Catholic church many years ago when we grew tired of the same old sermon topics: Abortion Divorce and Money Regardless of the scriptures designated for ...
Vivienne / October 3, 2023
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Our film-maker son’s birthday is today. Born a few days before our first wedding anniversary there were no knowing looks from family members (back then they watched the first few ...
Vivienne / September 18, 2023
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Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But since only Hubs and I live here two of them are, to coin a new phrase, ‘flex spaces’. ...
Vivienne / August 1, 2023
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We were supposed to go out with my brother after visiting friends in Highgate but instead, it was raining and I left poor, sick Hubs in bed to walk my favourite park with Vincent and ...
Vivienne / July 20, 2023
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For the first time in twelve years we took our annual trip to London in the summer. This time there wasn’t any pressure to wrap up loose ends; there were no houses to clear out; ...
Vivienne / June 20, 2023
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Daughts and her Hubs entrusted their two girls to our care – for four days and three nights – The baby Eleanor is 6 months and her sister Olivia is two years. I had cleared ...
Vivienne / April 7, 2022
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Once I graduated from college and left England to live in Texas my relationship with my Uncle was relegated to regular as clockwork cards on birthdays, Christmas and Easter. All simply ...
Vivienne / February 18, 2022
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Home should be where my heart is and for the most part it is. America is where my family lives, Footlights is where Hubs and I dwell, This, of course, is where my heart is. ...
Vivienne / January 27, 2022
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In January we took a six week trip to London to clean out my late uncle’s house in preparation for selling it. We interspersed our travels out of the city with activities we love ...
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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Dominion
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Hannah’s Child
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