Lucky Dorito

Every time I am using an ice cream scoop, I think of my Granny.

My Dad and Granny, August 2001
When we were young, she lived about an hour away from us and I’d sometimes go spend a week with her during our summer break from school. She lived in a very rural area and they spoke [...]

I posted this story once before but I thought about this incident this weekend so I thought I’d repost:

Memory Lane Monday takes us back to 1992. My hubby and I were in the relatively early dating days. I suppose I should make sure you know that my hubby and I never actually lived in the [...]

Can you pinpoint a single moment in time where you made an awful mistake? I’ve made many mistakes in my life….  too many to name each.
Some of them, though, still haunt me.
I think I can honestly say that the mistakes I’ve made as a mother are the ones that I can’t forgive myself for sometimes. [...]

Do you remember your favorite Halloween costume as a child? Or as in my case, any of your costumes as a child?
I honestly don’t remember any of my costumes except one.  (Sad, huh?) One year my sisters and I all dressed up as old fat men. We wore mens’ shirts with ties and mens’ pants [...]

I am sixteen months younger than my sister Lena.
That means, during our growing up years … I drove her CrAzY!!

I was the classic youngest child.

Always getting into her stuff.

Always trying to be her boss.

She used to put me in my place by simply ignoring me.
She’d say, “I think I hear a mouse talking….” when I’d [...]

Summary courtesy of IMDB:
It’s 1955. Frank and April Wheeler, in the seventh year of their marriage, have fallen into a life that appears to most as being perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job while April stays at [...]

Girls, this is for you:

(Photo courtesy of Google)
Have you ever done something so completely random that you shocked your kids…. and maybe even yourself a little?
One day a few years ago, my daughters and I were in the kitchen, talking as we prepared dinner. We’d seen or heard something on the television that we were loosely chatting about while [...]

… I have to say “Thank you Lord for NOT giving me boys!”
Last night as I watched (and heard from inside our hotel room) a bunch of 6th grade boys running up and down the halls, being ….. well …… boys, I was reminded of the time many years ago when I was working in [...]

I’ve often mentioned how much I love music…. and how certain songs will carry me back to a certain time and place in my memory. The thought of that leads me to ask: Have you ever smelled something that made you think of someone or something in particular?
Polo Blue smelled on any man makes me [...]