Green Fancy Meal!

In honor of St. Patrick's Day!  I will share a cute story.   While going to college, I was teaching my children too cook.  The girls used cookbooks and tried to out do each other when cooking.  They tried their hardest to make fancy foods.  So one day, it was  my son's turn.  He didn't know how to make fancy food or even want to look in a cookbook.  So he decided to make mashed potatoes, pork chops and green beans.   His way  of making it fancy was dying every thing green!  When he served the food the girls were grossed out, "Ew green food"  But I told them I'm sure its good.  We all ate it and it was very yummy!  This is my favorite memory of my son's fancy meal!  Happy St/ Patrick's Day!




(the above pic was not what he made but was to give you the idea of what green foods look like. haha)

Precious Memories

Every February around Valentine's day is the Father-Daughter dance. They seem to be held in every city these days.  My granddaughter LaRyn's dad was away at school so he could not take her again this year.  So papa was to take her. We weren't sure my other granddaughters were going to be able to go with there dad locally so papa took three his granddaugthers who lived close to us to the dance.

These are the memories they will never forget.  A special night with papa, a night of memories of dancing and a dinner date.  So sweet!

Priceless Moments

Sometimes the most simplest things in life are those quiet moments you spend it with a loved one.  My most recent moment is when my grandson, Drew, 13, took my hand while in the kitchen, Saturday, and began to dance with me.  As young boys and girls grow up they become so grown up so quickly that a special moment of a teenager are just too priceless not to mention.  I loved the quiet dance in the mist of all the family chatting and visiting.

This special time would not have happened if my daughter hadn't relized that she was in a toxic relationship.  Sometimes it hard to let go of a painful situation to only know you have to stand alone and raise your children alone because its the best thing to do for yourself and for your children.

I'm so thankful for the wisdom and strength my daughter has to made with this hard decision.  I'm thankful that I and her father are there to help her through this all.  But I am most thankful that she has God in her life so she can depend on him and learn to grow in this new season in her life.

Thirtyfive Years Ago Today!

Thirtyfive years ago today I married my best friend, that is my closest male friend.  I meet my love from my best girlfriend who lived next door at 15.  My love was my girlfriend's brother-in-law, so we all kept it in the family.  The only friend from those years I still see is this girlfriend and her family. We all hung around together and have so many memories when we were just kids. So actually I've known my husband for a total of  39yrs.

There so so many funny memories of those years, like how he made my girlfriend and I pay for gas just to go anywhere and then gas was cheap.  We each had to give him a $1 to take us to the gas station for cigarettes.   How about all the times we, several of our friends, and my gf dad took us camping, and one time we got stuck on the railroad tracks and a train was coming.  How about the time I stood him up when he arrived to take me on a date in his nice red '64 mustang, just because I didn't want to go out with him that day.  We were so mean at times to each other, but not really,  just occasionally. At times he acted like my big brother rather than a boyfriend, and that got on my nerves. jk!

We also spent many days car pooling together as we worked at the amusement park called Six Flags over Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA.  I remember when he came back home from TX, when he was in the Army, for his sister's back surgery and we went everywhere together.  I even gave him a couple of  little trinkets of mine so he wouldn't forget me when he went into the Army.  I guess he never forgot me.  Hehe.

We have 3 wonderful children, 8 grandkids and 1 great granddaughter.  And I still love this man, even more than I did when I first married him.  We renewed our wedding vows on our 15th anniversary, with family and friends as they were not able to be there for the orginial wedding.

Our first date was at Disneyland in California, with his brother's family and now for our 35th anniversary we will be going to Disneyworld for the first time in Florida with our daughter's family.  You think we never do anything alone but we do, since all the kids are grown we have lots of time alone.  Now we enjoy spending times with the family.  The best times are though  with one family at a time.

I tell people all the time if you can't marry your best friend who can you marry.  Obviously it has worked since we are married for 35yrs today.