Happy Thanksgiving To Those I Love Most

Christopher - 25 Years Old Today

My firstborn, Christopher Donahue Krueger, was born on Sunday, November 25th, 1984 at 1:34AM. He weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces, a perfect, beautiful baby. Bill looked at him and said that he looked smart.

I called my mother to tell her that her first grandchild had arrived....three weeks early....and told her that he was a "little guy". We called him that throughout his toddler years. My happiness was inestimable.

Today he is still beautiful and perfect in all the ways that matter. My life has been made wondrous by knowing him. Happy Birthday my dear, dear son. I will love you till the end of time.

Today is Our 26th Wedding Anniversary....

Our beginnings were simple...

....we wore no elaborate clothes....


.....attended no grand hotel reception....


....did not dance the night away....


....nor consume tier after tier of wedding cake...


None of these marked our beginnings....we were just this...

A Chicago guy....


....and a New York girl....


...who found each other on the beach in the Bahamas....kismet....serendipity....the best of luck...and so we remain....

Happy 26th Anniversary Bill....my love to you always...

Halloween....Where the Heck Did You Go??????

Halloween 2005...lots of happy, excited Trick or Treaters...scads of costumed kids seen up and down our block and beyond....parents walking with their little ones, beaming as their tiny hands reached for our doorbell...laughter as our ghosts and spiders delighted revelers....

Halloween 2009....less than 20 Trick or Treaters all day and all night, some not bothering to express themselves in costume...streets empty as far as the eye can see....most houses dark...only a few "TRICK OR TREAT!!!!...THANK YOU!!!" voices to be heard....

I fear next year just might be worse....sigh...