Recipes for living, loving and laughing:Jo, Elliott, Cloey & Zoey's adventures

2022 has certainly been challenging. Health issues just kept piling up. Our world turned right side up or upside down depending on your perspective.  After family therapy we are good with the Loomis Levy's and have had the kids a lot. It's been fun but exhausting.  We made a necessary choice to be closer to our adult daughters. After searching and changing our minds, we bought a great house in an over 55 community in Monroe Township, NJ.  Funny but we are 45 minutes away from cousin Marissa and family; too far (2 hours) from Terri and Jeff and 1 1/2 hours to Manhattan. I may have mentioned this but our daughter MD gave 3 months notice, sold her house and got a job and apartment at a hospital near Lennox Hill.  Our furbabies turned 11 and without the beach house (We sold it and will sell the RV.) they don't run as much as they used to but they are spry and healthy.  I'll take pics when I am in the house and hopefully find my camera in one of the 6 suitcases we pa...

A lot has happened since we drove to Sacramento, stayed for 3 months with the new baby, flew home with the dogs and spent a couple of months in Plymouth. The girls hated flying. They were in two bags but Cloey bit through her bag in about 30 seconds. It was an uneventful time. We flew back June 5 and arrived at night. I got a call June 6 that mom had passed at a little after 12:00 noon right after she ordered lunch. She went peacefully but the grief and shock is still new. We flew home on the same plane we flew in on and left our shell-shocked furbabies with Arik, Jessica, Eliana and Butters. We spent the week burying mom when the the Rabbi was there a rainbow came out. I know it was mom and I saw another rainbow when we drove the motorhome back to Sacramento Dec. 22!  Jaisa and Matt are going strong. It will be 2 years in April. Jaisa bought a condo and they are living together .  Before mom passed I spent Mother's Day weekend with Sheera and had a fabulou...