It pays to be organized, especially when you move a lot as we have been doing over the last two years. Our teacher daughter said, “I worry about you moving all the time, it must ...
My daughter has a friend who has three pooches and a dog-enduring cat that reminds her of our lovely white cat named Moby who lived for two short years and is still missed. Moby loved ...
Today is my father’s birthday. He would have been the grand old age of 90. “Not so much of the ‘old'” he’d say! He would have been a very lovely ninety at ...
After 18 months living away, first on a ship, Then sharing with her brother, And finally on her own, Daughts decided to come home. I mention this to one of my homeschooling friends, ...
Five years ago I was approached by a network to host a radio show on a topic of my choosing. I loved the potential of an opportunity to talk for an hour to myself and invite a guest or ...
My homesteading married couple have moved. At last! With them go their company Window to the Wild and their nine birds. Their physical location is no longer in a neighborhood, well, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two years ago my self-sustainable, rock climbing, Wildman, son was in a dither. A state of agitation is a more accurate depiction but isn’t dither such a fabulous word? Hubs and I ...
Quite a few years ago I was pregnant for the first time and so naturally I had a Due Date. Things happened, or should I say, things didn’t happen. My due date came and went… ...
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.