13 Sunday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cheated, dinner, family, food, lobster, moments, pie, steak, thanksgiving, weather, widow
for Thanksgiving dinner we had steak and lobster… enjoyed setting the table a little fancier than normal..
a fun change, and happy to have the steak grilled..
and it was delicious…
as was the cute little half pumpkin pie for dessert, lol…
even cheated and used canned whipped cream, which saved time and energy;-)…
17 Monday Apr 2023
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bag, big girl pants, birthday, blessed, BS, celebrating, cherry pie, delicious, food, friends, happy, moments, pie, treat, widow
as the birthday week celebrations continue, today I gathered with my BS buddies and they brought the birthday bag, a beautiful card, and cherry pie…
we have used the birthday bag for maybe twenty years… found this old photo from 2014 that has the bag in it, lol…
it used to hold a gift, but at this point in our lives we really don’t need anything, so now it contains a card…
this one was a beautiful painting by one of our group… it is a park bench and represents the bench that my beloved and I would sit on in the Leo Mol Garden during our walks…
happy birthday was sung and we had cherry pie with whipped cream… sooooo delicious;-)…
lots of conversation, laughs, and good eats…
now to be sure I don’t lose the bag before it is needed for the next birthday…
03 Wednesday Apr 2019
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big girl pants, cake, cherry pie, chocolate, delicious, pie, pistachios, sugar, sweet, widow
had a sweet snack tonight…
pistachios and a few pieces of a Lindt chocolate bar…
just this morning someone commented about how well I am watching my sugar intake…
and then I ate cake at lunch;-(… it was a small piece, but I ate the whole thing…
I don’t care much for cake… my mom always made cherry pie for my birthday, lol… but this cake was amazing…
07 Saturday Oct 2017
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today I’ve spent a lot of time thinking of some of the reasons to be thankful…
my health…
family and friends…
work and great colleagues…
a comfortable home and garden…
almost forty-two years of marriage…
I’ve also been appreciating my car and the garage that she gets to live in… George did the majority of the driving, partly because I was happy to be chauffeured, but mostly because he loved to drive…
one of our traditions was to take a drive out of the city to enjoy the colours of the foliage… sad that has fallen by the wayside… still not prepared to drive on the highway, lol…
once I was on my own I had to put on those big girl pants and drive myself places… going in and out was huge, as there is a little jog between the driveway and the garage… every time I went in or out was stressful…
now it is a piece of cake…
had some fun today and made an apple pie for our Thanksgiving dinner, which is a rare occurrence… George was the pie maker and I’m thinking he would be proud of me… looks good, fingers crossed that it tastes good too…
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