Real estate blog entries tagged with family ties

Blog entries tagged with "family ties":

family ties: Activerain Love Story – Love has found its way 64 years later - 07/25/08 06:06 PM

I love Activerain and yesterday was just another reason to love it even more. I have a house listed that has some amazing history behind it and one of the things that was found during the remodel was some love letters written during World War II.
The Schiller Station home … (5 comments)

family ties: "Sing me a Song" - 03/16/08 11:44 PM

Today is St. Patrick's Day. Given that my father had nothing but Irish blood in him, despite being a few generations deep here in the United States, St. Patrick's Day was a celebratory time. Always a singer, his Irish songs started creeping in and repeating probably right after Valentine's Day. (There were a bunch … (7 comments)

family ties: Moving Mom - A Special Challenge - 02/25/08 08:00 AM

Did you miss me on Saturday? You couldn't find me on Active Rain because I was helping my mother move across the hall from a studio unit to a one-bedroom apartment in the Assisted Living facility where she resides now. Actually, one of my brothers did all the heavy lifting on Firday - I just helped the … (21 comments)

family ties: Saturday Morning Breakfast Club...Active Rain Style! - 02/23/08 08:51 AM

What better way to start a weekend than a 'Saturday Morning Post'...after all, 'Post' makes cereals...and cereals are usually breakfast food...I think that famous magazine 'The Saturday Evening Post' had it all backwards.
Well the first thing I like to do to prepare for a post is come up with a theme!
So … (25 comments)

family ties: Family Ties, A Lesson On Personal Responsibility, And Sunday Reflection! - 02/10/08 12:08 AM

I am writing this post for one main reason...just to post to 'the family ties' group! I commented to Jason Crouch on his weekly summary that there is simply nothing better than family!
Now don't get me wrong, with 7 of us under one roof, we are not exempt from the challenges … (15 comments)

family ties: Family Reunion - Weekly Wrapup for Family Ties Group - 02/02/08 - 02/02/08 03:59 PM

Welcome to "Family Reunion", the weekly recap for the Family Ties group. We increased to 218 members this week. Additionally, we moved from 1204 up to 1270 posts! Welcome to all new members, and thanks to those who posted! Keep in mind that any member of the group can invite other members to join.
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family ties: I’m trying to help my kids understand me! - 01/31/08 12:34 AM

OK, I have a weird sense of humor and it comes out from time to time in my posts, but my kids have to live withthis and a lot of times they just don't get dad's jokes to mom. So I've started to make a DVD, not to warp them,but hopefully … (12 comments)

family ties: If these walls could talk - 01/30/08 12:13 AM

Well today, I may have finally been in a house that can. The history of thishome is just amazing and I can't talk about it completely because I'm going tobe taking the listing on it, hopefully, next week.
Here are just some of the things, that while being remodeled, that were found.Some … (11 comments)

family ties: Who Remembers RAWHIDE and GUNSMOKE and PONDEROSA??? - 12/29/07 03:26 PM

Over the holidays there hasn't been much on TV. Normally this would not be a problem but my husband has been off from work the entire month and watching TV and playing golf are his hobbies.
This is the time of the year for reruns. So what has he been watching? All the … (23 comments)

family ties: Thank you Alex P. Keaton - 12/09/07 04:07 PM

Thank you Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox's fictional Family Ties character) for showing me that it's ok to carry a briefcase before you're even old enough to get a proper job!Thank you Alex P. Keaton for showing me that wanting to rule the world before I could rule a straight … (0 comments)

family ties: Holiday Fun, Family Fun and No TV! - 12/02/07 07:00 AM

Here is our Holiday Gift to All. We have read these books many times, and yet we enjoy continuing to read them. We have a new family tradition in the making. We are doing something new. We gave up the TV.
We are reading out loud as the family gathers around … (6 comments)

family ties: My Challenge To You - Your Localism Post! Give Back To Those Who Give All... - 11/28/07 02:59 PM

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family ties: Judge or Not to Judge - Thank You Mom For Your Wisdom - 11/15/07 11:59 PM

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family ties: Here's to a Good Woman | We all have one - Our Mothers! - 10/07/07 11:37 PM

I was sent this amazing email with a great story line that certainly I can relate to at times. I am always amazed why my 16 year old insists that she interrupt me while on the phone? I researched this story and found it at several places on the web and … (10 comments)

family ties: How I Proposed to My Wife: 4 Important Lessons Learned for Real Estate - 09/26/07 11:44 PM

With my 6th wedding anniversary coming up right around the corner this Sunday, I’ve been thinking about all things marriage this week (For a detailed account of the tumultuous days surrounding this great event less than 3 weeks after 9/11/01, read Where Were You on September 11th? (or how September 11th … (50 comments)

family ties: What makes a man a real man? Lessons from my Grandpa - 09/25/07 12:03 AM

My grandfather passed away in 1999, and I still miss him. He was 93 when he died, so there was no doubt that he lived a "full life", as people like to say. Simply put, he was one of the greatest men that I have ever known.

This is a … (77 comments)

family ties: "Family Ties" on "24" - 01/31/07 02:00 AM

This week we enjoyed becoming better acquainted with the Bauer Bunch.
There's Father Phillip, the Grand Patriarch and President of yet another less-than-reputable, bungling government contractor. Seriously, even the Domino's delivery boy could've done a better job of getting the nukes to the right place!
And of course, there's Brother's Grimm "Graem" … (10 comments)