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I’m on vacation; hence, fewer blog posts. Since I’m in the vacation mode, I’ve been thinking of some of the things that have made our family vacations so memorable.
The first thing that comes to mind is The Vacation Cry. Not sure where or how this started but it’s become a nonnegotiable part of the Andersen […]

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I bought my wife flowers today for Mother’s Day tomorrow. The cashier asked if they were for Mother’s Day then proceeded to tell me how her dad wouldn’t buy her mother anything on Mother’s Day because she wasn’t his mother. Defending him, she said she thought he had a point. I said maybe, but […]

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Actually, the countdown to our family vacation has been going for several months. But this week, the anticipation starting going viral.
Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO has always been our family’s default vacation destination. We’ve been going for close to 25 years so it’s part of our family culture. Now that several of […]

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My sister-in-law is with us this weekend and today is her birthday. Birthdays are a big deal in our home. We have quite a few family traditions; e.g., singing. We sing Happy Birthday a lot. We sing while bringing presents out to the birthday person in the morning. We sing before each meal. […]

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