Tawny

Today is my little girls birthday. That should make her smile, she hasn't been called a little girl for quite some time. I am so grateful for Tawny. She is a great joy to me. She understands more about me than I think I do. Thank you Tawny for being my daughter!
Have a wonderful day today. I wish I was there with you
I love you
MOM

Happy Birthday Tawny

Dinner

Last night we had the missionaries over for dinner. All went well until Jade put a combination of soap and face lotion in her hair about 15 minutes before they were to arrive. I should have taken that as a sign that the evening was doomed. In the middle of dinner, Michael was handing me the pitcher of water when it slipped and hit Lyssa's plate, which then shattered into hundreds of pieces. Oh my. And what did I do? I laughed, folded the table cloth up around all the shards, and on went dinner. What else could I do? What a mess we had to clean up! I dare say the Elders will not soon forget dinner at our house!

I have been taggen

I showed my ignorance by having to ask Tawny what that meant! Here goes

8 TV shows I love to watch-

1. Mash
2. News
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8 Favorite restaurants-
1. Los Amigos
2. Taco Bell (does fast food count)
3. Sensuious Sandwich
4. Subway
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8 things that happened yesterday-
1. I worked all day.
2. I came home to the kids dirty laundry spread all over the kitchen.
3. Lyssa made dinner for me
4. I went to bed at 9:30
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8 things I'm looking forward to-
1. The WEDDING
2. Having almost all of my children here this weekend.
3. (Sorry, I guess this is not a good day to ask what I am looking forward to)
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8 things on my wish list-
1. One hour just to myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. To have ALL of my children here.
3. Not to have to organize my house.
4. Someone else to do the cleaning. (OK, I realize that one will never happen)
5. Someone else to finish canning my pickles and tomatoes!
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8 persons I hereby tag-

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I guess i am not very good at this.

The end of an Era

Those of you who have lived here or visited here knows what an Icon Simons Hardware has been in our community. This saturday at 6 PM they will close their doors for good. The store has been sold, who knows what will be there in the future, but it will never be the same. Since we moved here we have enjoyed going into the store, being greeted by Stan, or Jared, or even Don. I understand that things change, time moves on, but this is one change I don't welcome. When ever I pass by the store I will think of times gone by.

A Long Day

It is 9:25 at night, and I feel like it is midnight. Today was the day that either I bottled the pears, or I would be throwing them out tomorrow! So much to Sage"s shagrin, I bottled. 24 quarts of pears and 7 quarts of pickles later I am done in. All that after spending an hour plunging the kitchen sink! I really think the worst part of the day was washing out the canning jars that I hauled up from the basement full of all sorts of creepy crawly skeletons. I just kept telling myself -be grateful they are dead!I must remember next year to store them upside down!--So with the peaches and tomatoes we did last week, we are done except for the tomatoes still on the vine, which at this moment are covered up because of the projected drop in temps tonight. Hopefully I can wait until Friday to pick more tomatoes! Then next week we will dig up the potatoes. The squash needs to wait until after a heavy frost, then we can bring them in--my my, don't I sound like a farmer!!!

ODE to a Memory

I have mixed feelings today as the house across the street comes down. I spent many hours sitting on that porch visiting with Gladys. Those are treasured memories to me. My younger children spent many hours playing there while the older ones were in school. After Gladys left, Jo moved in with her family. Again I have treasured memories of a wonderful friendship. Our children became friends and we spent many hours visiting. I loved the time I spent over there and the friendships that I had. If I was the drinking kind, I would raise a glass to you, Gladys, and to you Jo, and to the memories I have.