The Second Season

Archive for July 2009

Long To Do list

Posted by: ellenward on: July 16, 2009

Type up board meeting minutes

WC – Review what needs to be done and assign

Birthday cards and gifts

Call to have the kids stay with us

Order medicine

Planning/update calendars

July – Trip to New York – Cohen family reunion

Music in August with Ron and Bonnie after Steve’s daughter’s wedding

Aug – Bonnie Raitt

Aug 1st- Steve’s daughter’s wedding

July 19th – Trip [...]

The Zookeeper’s Wife

Posted by: ellenward on: July 7, 2009

We decided to start a book club at Wyndham Commons. The first book we chose is The Zookeeper’s Wife A War Story by Diane Ackerman. This is a true story about a zookeeper and his family in Poland who end up helping Jews hide out during the war. Diane Ackerman’s attention to detail is amazing.
Here is a link [...]

My grandmother, Wilhelmina Charlotte Morrell

Posted by: ellenward on: July 6, 2009

This is a picture of my grandmother “Mongie” as I remember her. She is sitting in their backyard in Connecticutt. 
Mongie was my grandfather’s second wife but she’s the grandmother on my mother’s side that I remember while growing up. Tonight I was trying to find information about her and not having much success. Finally, I [...]

Michael’s 18th Birthday Dinner, June 30th, 2009

Posted by: ellenward on: July 2, 2009

Ed and I took Michael and his girlfriend, Brittany, out to dinner at a nice Italian restaurant, Liberatore’s, in Owings Mills. This was for his eighteenth birthday, Tuesday being his real birthday. We made plans to do this on Satuday but I didn’t quite realize that when he said he was on his own that [...]

Crissy

Posted by: ellenward on: July 2, 2009

Its so cute to watch Crissy settle down at the door, watching for Ed to come home from work. She seems to know just about the time he’s should be there.

She’s actually very happy with a schedule. When its time for bed she goes right into her crate without any coaxing beyond me walking towards [...]

Training

Posted by: ellenward on: July 1, 2009

Late this afternoon I found out that I would be one of the trainers for the new library system we’ll be getting. And it will be going live on December 9th. Of this year. yikes. We have roughly 800 people we have to train by then.
This week I assisted Joyce with the MailMerge training and [...]


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Weekly Compass and Roles

Weekly Compass Sharpen the Saw 1. Physical: Exercise and make health appointments 2. Social/Emotional: Call or email family and friends 3. Mental: Organize and Plan 4. Spiritual: Journal/blog in the evening and write and answer emails Roles: 5. Wife 6. Mother 7. Grandmother 8. Sister 9. Manager 10. Friend 11. Genealogist 12. Board Secretary 13. Student 14. Dog owner