Good Bye

Decided to not blog anymore. I have bookmarked the blogs I'm interested in and will check on them but I'm not going to do this anymore. Bye, bye

Why is it??

Why is it that whenever we go on a trip that I am the one who gets the house ready, does all the laundry, makes sure the dog has food and water, the garbage is taken out and that my sweet hubby has everything he needs?
Then I pack the car, the snacks and the beverages, the armrest pillows, the pillows for our beds and a jacket.....just in case?
Just asking ya know!

Getting Old

Yesterday I woke up feeling great and eager for a day of window shopping and possibly purchasing a new dress for church.
Got in my car.....got out and went back in the house for the car keys.
Got in my car....got out and went back in to put the trash out for the collector.
Got in my car and took off.
Got to the library....it was closed for the holiday weekend. Backed up and drove forward 3 times to get close enough to the drive thru book slot.....had to open the door and semi-get out of the car anyway to put the books in the slot.
Took off and drove to Idaho Falls.
Went to the first store and looked all over, put a photo album in the basket, put a dog toy in the basket, put a wall picture in the basket, headed for the cashier. Saw the 2 cashiers and 20 people in line. Left the basket in the store and left!
Went to the second store and looked all over, tried on a blouse.....discovered I'm fatter than I think I am and put the blouse back on the rack and left the store!
Went to the mall. Went up the escalator and clear to the back of the store to the fat lady clothes. Found the dress of my dreams in my size! Looked at the price tag. Put the dress back on the rack and left on the down escalator.
Walked all the way down to the OTHER end of the mall to book store.
Bought way too many books and 3 magazines.
Walked all the way back to the OTHER end of the mall and out to the car!
Drove home
Got out of the car and discovered that my feet hurt so bad I could hardly walk!
Sat in a chair until bed time and hobbled to bed.
Got up this morning, still could hardly walk.
Went to get a drink and sciatica pain in left hip. !@#%#&*@# out of my mouth!!
Spent the day in the chair until hobbling back to the computer.
Made solemn vow to never go shopping all day again.
Amen

I just want to say that I love my sweet hubby!

My sweet hubby can be a stubborn, selfish old man, but he puts up with this stubborn, selfish old woman everyday and is still a sweet, sensitive, caring man.
He is a good father, a patient and loving grandfather.
He is opinionated conservative full blooded patriotic American who takes off his hat and puts his hand over his heart when the flag goes by in a parade.
He is a fanatical, blue blooded, jumping up and screaming BYU Cougars fan who grumbles his way through football season vowing to never watch another game until the season ends and then he can hardly stand it counting the days until football starts again.
He is hard working keeping our cars running, machines working, lawn mowed and fences mended.
He loves animals and won't even kill a spider or ant unless he absolutely has too. He treats his dog better than most people do their kids.
I love and cherish this old man and I thank my lucky stars (or the angels in heaven) who brought us together over 47 years ago. Don't know what I'd do without him.

Awesome!

I found this little book at the library titled "Awesome". It's all about small, insignificant things that are just plain awesome compared to the everyday awfulness that surrounds us in the news.

Like waking up in the middle of a hot night and turning over your pillow and laying down your head on the "new, cool smoothness of the other side of your pillow"

My Awesome moment today was washing all the sheets and pillowcases from the weekend and then hanging them on the clothes line to gently blow dry in the breeze. Taking them down about an hour later and smelling that clean outdoor crispness and folding them right into the laundry basket and placing them in the linen closet and knowing that the next time I change the sheets, we and our guests will be able to enjoy that fresh wonderful smell and feel.

Awesome!
Tell me about your "awesome" moment!

Play Time

Remember when you were little and you loved to play dress up and be someone fantastic?

Remember how you would be a grown up mom or lady going to the ball or the princess or the cowboy or the knight in shining armor?

When you had those costumes on you could be anyone you wanted and do things no one else could do.

Slay dragons, ride the fastest horse, fly high in the sky. That cape you wore flew out behind you as you ran faster than a speeding bullet and nothing, no nothing could stop you.

Tea parties with the fancy china, delicious flower tea and mud pies for dessert.
Those were the days, yes oh yes, those were the days.

If at first........

While at my son's house awhile back my daughter-in-law decided to make a lemon tart.
She followed the directions exactly and I helped her juice the fresh lemons and the smell was so delicious that my mouth watered and the kids all gathered round to see what was going on.
Shawna used a spring form pan because she didn't have a tart dish and when she took the finished product out of the oven and turned to place it on the counter that pan and the tart came apart and fell upside down on the floor.


Now we could have cried and Shawna did get mad for a little while, but what we couldn't resist was the enticing smell of the lemon and the buttery crust, so we sat on the floor and picked tiny, non-floor touching pieces of the tart up and ate until there were only pieces touching the floor. It was DELICIOUS!

Most people would have said "That's it, never again!", but not Shawna. She is not a quitter.

A couple of mornings later I woke up and when I arrived in the kitchen there was Shawna making another lemon tart. This time in a ceramic dish that was perfect for the recipe.
It turned out perfect and we all sampled the finished product.
Super yummy and even better this time without the threat of floor flavoring.

So many times we give up when life doesn't go the way we want. We rant and rave at the mistakes we have made and decide to go a different direction. Instead we should step back, gather our emotions, think things through and try again correcting our mistakes from the first time and maybe go a little slower and more methodically until we reach the desired result and are even more satisfied than we thought we might be because of the struggle.
Lesson to learn.......when life gives you lemons MAKE A TART!