Table for 3 Please

As you can see.. Charlie only has his potatoe skin and roll left on his plate. His steak is all gone.

Well, why go out for dinner and WAIT and WAIT when you can have a delicious

steak dinner at home. (without all the fuss of dressing up and paying the high price!) Last night Henry and I decided to grill some ribeyes and all the trimmings. We only had one of the 2 children present. UHHH can you guess which one? Charlie loves to eat him some meat. We joked last night and said that Charlie was on the Adkin's diet. LOL

After dinner we rented Nights in Rodanthe on PPV. Heck we even had popcorn and chocolate also. Just like being at the movies, minus the teenagers making out in front of us and the people kicking our chairs behind us! It sure is nice to be home isn't it?

My new IPOD

Ok I got your attention...

This is a cute Valentine Ashley got today at her Valentine's Party.

I think I'll have to eat the Reece's cup though.

Isn't this a cute valentine idea! Just wanted to share it with you.

Happy Friday the 13 th everyone!!!!!

Memories

My SIL, Jerilynn, wrote a while back about memory pieces. I thought I would write about 2 memories I have of both my Grandmothers.

The first one is a Tea Cart that my Grandma Hedger always had as long as I can remember.

I used to play with it and when I was younger I thought it was sooo cool.

When she passed away 6 years ago, and we were cleaning out her house, I decided to keep the cart and bring it to my house. It always housed her fancy coffee cups and saucers with the gold trim. Today it is in my kitchen holding my small collection of cook books and nick-nacks.

The second memory is not an item, but a smell that will forever and ever remind me of my sweet Nano. It is the smell of Spice Tea. The orange clove type smell. My Nano always had a jar made up for us kids when we came to see her. The women would always be in the kitchen talking and drinking coffee, and us kids got to have a warm cup of spice tea. Yumm! My mom gave me a box of potpourri the other day that smells just like Nano's spice tea. I lean over and get a good sniff every day.

What would we do without our memories of the dear people we love. My poor Nano who has Alzheimer's is loosing hers everyday. How sad to have all of those vanish. I can only pray that this horrible disease will not touch anyone else in this family.

I Quit....

No I did not quit my job!! I've decided to "TRY" to quit going to Wal-Mart. They really make me mad. I'm tired of going in and buying a box of diapers, and since it doesn't fit into a bag, I'm asked for my receipt to make sure I didn't steal them! This also happened before Christmas. I went in a bought a Little Tykes basketball goal for Charlie through the self check out. (You know they never have cashiers these days) Well the little old man "watching" the self check out lines said, "Did you ring this up?" (pointing to the large box in my cart) I said "Yes!" He then says "I didn't see it ring up!!" WHAT...... I got pretty irritated at that and showed him my receipt. Then not 20 steps away the elderly "door monitor" asked me for my receipt AGAIN! I then said "I just showed it to him!" Left mad and really felt like they thought I was a shoplifter. Uh Hello..do I look like a shoplifter?

Well, today was the same thing leaving with diapers. I just feel like if this is the way they treat their customers then I don't want to be a customer any longer.

Now whether or not I can stay away from walmart or not, we'll see. But I am on a mission to try.

Wish me luck. I do go there everyday!!!!! LOL

Another one down...many more to go

The paint color is Mayapple by Glidden

Well, we had a productive weekend. To start out, I am now going to be working on Saturday and Sunday instead of Friday Saturday like I have been. It kinda stinks, but HEY it is only 2 days a week and 8 days a month. (I'll live!)

We decided to go ahead a paint our kitchen. Friday we made a quick stop to Home Depot for paint and supplies, and started painting away. We finished up tonight. We ended up painting the trim also so it did end up taking longer than expected, but as usual after alllll the mess, it was well worth it. I love the color with all my pepper stuff. Next room on the list is the KIDS bathroom. Found a gallon of "oops" paint at Home Depot for $5.00. Now I have to find a matching shower curtain and decor. The paint is a greenish color, so it should not be hard to match. I love home decor projects, just wish I could pay someone to do all the work for us. LOL