Innergize Day

 Today is Innergize Day - a day to look inward and become mindful of oneself.  How?  These were the suggestions:

Take a long bath - A long soak in the jacuzzi even better (check)

Read a good book - I did finish a murder mystery that was soso and started one about an autistic child lost in the Vermont woods (true story) that is captivating (check)

Listen to favorite music - Classic rock while I painted the bathroom ceiling, perfect (check)

Write a letter - blogging, next best thing (check)

Watch the sunrise - Thank you Fenway for waking me and asking to go out just as the sun was rising (check)

Get a massage - always hope for a foot massage before bed 

Also it is Save Your Photos Month.

This is something I feel I have been doing for a very long time.  Photos from both grandmothers plus mine have been jumbled together since I vacated Cumberland.  Slowly but surely I am downloading them and organizing.  I have also found totes full of loose photos at Lucille's.  Eventually they will all be organized and shareable.

Meanwhile today's favorite photos:

This photo was taken on the front lawn on Diamond Hill Road just before we left for the Ringley Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus.  We were super excited.  I was a wee bit upset that Karen got to wear the long dress while I had to show my knobby knees.  She was a better girly girl.  

                                       

                                                                            Karen, Liisa, Eric and me


                                                        Karen, Eric and me
Karen and I have birthdays that are 356 days apart - Irish twins.   Which means that every year we are the same age for 9 days.  Some years this was okay, some not!  We shared many cakes and wore very similar outfits.  Our husbands call us bookends.  
                                            Bernie, Karen and me (note the similar outfits!)

                                                        Me and Karen (still dressed similarly)


                                                            Me and Karen (different outfits!)

                                                            Karen and me at Newport Creamery

                                                At the pool (Cousin's in Coventry) 
                                            and at the beach (Sanibel Island, Florida)

And my grandmothers:
                                                      Mummu, paternal grandmother, RN at 
                                                            Lying In Hospital in Providence.


                                        Ma, maternal grandmother, dressing up for Halloween



    

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