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About dentaldiva

I'm just trying to figure out stuff. I'm a Mom, a dentist, a wife and a sister. I love my life and my family. I'm often too busy to write but I love it when I take the time.

“For better or for worse…”

Posted on April 7, 2024 by dentaldiva

…In sickness and in health” I remember hearing those words in so many weddings as I grew up. As a young woman, writing my own wedding vows, I was more concerned with the line about “obey” in it. Would I … Continue reading →

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A year of Firsts

Posted on April 25, 2021 by dentaldiva

A year ago we’d just taken the boys to the cabin and laughed watching cartoons together. Mark was excited to show the boys an ice coating on a neighbor’s car that drove through a storm. Tif and the boys joined … Continue reading →

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300 Days of Isolation

Posted on February 20, 2021 by dentaldiva

Today it’s been 300 days since Mark’s accident. Three hundred days since I found him paralyzed on our front patio. As we waited for the ambulance, he thanked me for finding him, and told me I’ve been the best wife. … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of a Covid Free Christmas

Posted on December 20, 2020 by dentaldiva

Day Ten of my pandemic isolation. Well, it’s ten days since my Covid symptoms started. I’ve been isolated by the pandemic for ten months actually. I haven’t gathered with my friends or gone to a play or gotten a huge … Continue reading →

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My Hero

Posted on June 10, 2020 by dentaldiva

My husband, my hero. Mark would have certainly shrugged that title away. We often debated about newscasters overuse of the word “Hero”. Even the people being hailed as heros on TV would often say “I’m no hero, I’m just doing … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day 2017

Posted on May 14, 2017 by dentaldiva

I love being a mother. I have two daughters and one son. But I have many young people that I’ve thought of as my kids. Exchange students, kids in plays where I was their mother, and friends of my kids … Continue reading →

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Marian Bennett

Posted on April 10, 2016 by dentaldiva

We lost our Grand Dame of Longmont Theater today. That’s what we affectionately called our Marian Bennett. She was what was best about community theater. The was talented, hard working, a shining star with a warm smile and one classy … Continue reading →

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Frank and Jim

Posted on September 11, 2015 by dentaldiva

This last week my Mom, Wanda, and her sister, Virginia, both lost their husbands. It happened one day apart and even though it wasn’t a total shock, it’s still hard to believe. Frank is married to my Mom… … Continue reading →

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Happy 80th Birthday Mom!

Posted on February 10, 2013 by dentaldiva

My mother has always been a “ball of fire”. Sometimes it seemed like she had more energy than I did. She could work circles around us all when she put her mind to it. Running a household with five active … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged all on a school teacher’s salary. When I’d come home and tell her I had a date for the school dance, and it was perfect. She really could make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. I think my boyfriend saw the dress before it had my Mother’s special touches and looked disappointed. He told me at the d, and we all hope they have at least ten more. Today I talked to my Mom. My brother, and we’d start over. Sometimes it’d take us quite awhile to get through a song. But she got better and now I wish we could do that again. Her arthritis has made her hesitate to play much anymore a, and we’d walk back and forth on our days off. Just sitting on her deck “visiting” while we drank coffee could turn into an afternoon of laughing and sharing stories. We weren’t trying to solve, because she was such a perfectionist that it took her so long to do it, because they’d just say I was being ridiculous. My Mom was too nice. She could be tough on us at home. And you didn’t want to make her mad. One house we lived in had a hedge along the driveway and, but he said he’d been waiting for fifty years for them both to be single and he didn’t want to wait any longer. Well, but her father didn’t see any point wasting money sending a girl to college, but now that I’m older I realize what a challenge picking up and moving can be. She didn’t know anything about computers, but she learned and ran my office efficiently. Now she’s connected to internet, but she managed to cook and clean, but she still attended each program and focused intensely on our faces, but she wanted to be able to play when she got older, but she’d be paying attention and usually offer a workable solution. When we had school craft projects, but she’d sometimes do our own photographs. Later, email and “Facebooks” with the best of them. I was so lucky to have that time when my Mom lived here in the same town. She was my sounding board. My partner in crime. We could go to garage sales a, Frank. After many phone calls and a couple weekends together, had just surprised her and flown out for her 80th birthday. She was thrilled to have him and my sister, he wanted her to move to Kansas and get married. I wanted her to wait, hemmed it and added green velvet ribbon for the St Patrick’s Day Dance, I had lots of responsibility. I had lots of chores. I couldn’t wait to leave home when I was eighteen. I thought I knew everything and didn’t need any more “mothering”. Years later, I was blessed when my Mom wanted to move to Longmont and help us out. She helped with our children and worked at my office. She was single and didn’t know anyone here but us. But she moved here anyw, I’d come home from school and our piano was in the entryway in that house. She’s want me to sing along to OLD songs while she plunked away. If she hit a wrong note.. She’s say “SUGAR” or som, it came out fabulous! Probably her craziest “project” was when she reconnected with a high school friend, it couldn’t have turned out any better. He’s the nicest man I could hope for and treats her like a queen. We all love him and we’re so happy that she’s found happiness in her golden years. It, just our own little world of children and family and work. One of us would call the other one up.. “Do you want to come over for a cup of coffee?” and we’d be walking right over. I remember the, learned the Little Drummer Boy and we all heard her marching to “Par Rum Pum PUM PUMM!” all day long. Mom reminded me that she had never complained when I’d done that, Linda, my Mom watched and listened and practiced right along with her. She didn’t want lessons when she was a child, My mother has always been a “ball of fire”. Sometimes it seemed like she had more energy than I did. She could work circles around us all when she put her mind to it. Running a household with five, Oregon when I was in eight grade. One time, pretty Mommy when I look at her. It’s only sometimes that I notice that she’s slowing down and isn’t so eager to jump up and join me when I ask.. Only sometimes that I see the laugh lines caress, sew our outfits and cut our hair, she stopped and got donuts for my friends and me. All my friends thought she was the coolest Mom ever. I could never complain about my Mom like the other girls, she took up painting and became quite good. We all prize our paintings from our Mother. In grade school she knew all the songs by heart. Especially after several grades of her children had already don, she was as excited as I was. Off we’d hop to the “sewing room” to look through the fabric she’d gotten on sale. She would sew something up and I’d have a new dress for the dance. One time I, so she didn’t go. I loved hearing her sisters and brother singing harmony and I always wished my brothers and sisters would do that. When my sister, so she taught herself. I remember in eighth grade, so we had to smile and enjoy it. My mother has a beautiful voice. She could have gone to college with a voice scholarship, sometimes mouthing the words so we wouldn’t forget. That was when we still had “Christmas Programs” with real Christmas Songs! I remember the year my little sister, Steve, Sue, there was Mom in the middle of the glue and diorama with popsicle sticks and paintbrushes. She was so good at art. When I was a little girl I remember she worked at home on tinting photographs by hand, together with her on her birthday. I can’t really believe that she will be turning eighty tomorrow. She’s still so beautiful to me. I see my young, was taking piano lessons, when I had children of my own, when I was in high school, when my mom picked me up from a school activity | Leave a comment

Out of Aces

Posted on September 7, 2012 by dentaldiva

I have two brothers, Jeff and Steve. They were handfuls when they were little, riding their bikes around the neighborhood, throwing pine cones, getting into trouble. But they grew up to be good men. My brother Steve still loves to … Continue reading →

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