Shawn came for a visit

He met PoppEY for the first time. They bonded well. He snoozed on his GranDY. Mo and Shannon loved the burgers I made. A great time was had by all.

From Vine to Pot

Eddie's bean rows and stalks are so straight and orderly AND weedless
We pick em and snap em and throw em in a pot

The we Boil em and eat em Yum Yum I love me some pole beans

New pics of Shawn

Ziploc Omelet

(This works great !!! Good for when all your family is together. The best part is that no one has to wait for their special omelet !!!)

Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with permanent marker.

Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) shake to combine them.

Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc.

Each guest adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shake. Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up.

Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes [we did 15 minutes]. You can usually cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, make another pot of boiling water.

Open the bags and the omelet will roll out easily. Be prepared for everyone to be amazed.






Nice to serve with fresh fruit and coffee cake; everyone gets involved in the process and a great conversation piece.

Imagine having these ready the night before, and putting the bag in boiling water while you get ready. And in 15 minutes, you've got a nice omelet for a quick breakfast!!!

I was looking at my own blog,,,

to see how many comments I got about the baby chicks and almost fell off my chair from laughing.

I can't believe you guys didn't comment about this. The last blogs photos show the baby chicks and in the background is a big cup of starter grower, but look at what container Eddie used to put the feed in...A KFC CUP, Oh my goodness, that is tooooo funny. Poor little chicks I'm sure they are way afraid of us now thinking we might eat them for supper when they get big.

More baby pics

Eddie and I became parents over night...

We had 12 chicken eggs in an incubator and one hatched early this morning. Here are a couple of photos of our newly hatched baby chick. The other 11 have not pipped yet. We are expecting their arrival shortly.

More photos of things that grow

Gladiolas
Petunias
Baby chick
Gardenias
Pole beans

Hydrangeas, Hydrangeas, Hydrangeas

Here are my budding bevy of beautiful blossoms!

Echo okay

Echo is normal. Kidneys and liver normal. No diabetes. Other than the hypertension, high cholesterol, and the severe spinal stenosis, he is in pretty good shape.

Now if we could just get all of his doctors in agreement over his medications we might be doing alright.

It is hot down here and expecting to get only hotter. I think 95 degrees for June 1st is too hot.

I used to think lightning bugs were fairies

My great niece, Zoie, had a Tinker Bell Birthday Party over the weekend and if anyone looks like a beautiful little sprite it is this child. Sometimes she looks at me out of those beautiful sweet eyes and I see my mother. She is so girly and prissy, but oh so sweet. She was even excited about the hangers that her clothes presents came on. She makes me laugh and she makes me melt. Sweet, sweet child. Then there is her cousin, Connor, who is just as sweet and polite, but all little boy and I love him for it. His little smile makes my heart sing. Isn't it amazing how wonderful children can make you feel? Don't even get me started on Shawn, cause we all know how I can go on and on about that little booger.



I went looking for a present for Zoie (her mother had recommended Tinker Bell wall art as they are redecorating her room in "Tink"), I made a jaunt to Toys R Us because I had visited every other store in town and had just about given up when finally I found a poster which I easily framed. Viola! "Tinker Bell wall-art." See below!



I had to ask one of the clerks to help me find the posters and she said, Are you into "Tinkle Bell?" I said that my great niece was a fan of "Tinker Bell," and she answered back that her daughter loved "Tinkle Bell," too! I laughed all the way back to work.

So here are the latest photos of my sugar booger, you knew I was gonna post em!

Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War. While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in General Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.

Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring any and all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.

There are a few notable exceptions. Since the late 50's on the Thursday before Memorial Day, the 1,200 soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day. More recently, beginning in 1998, on the Saturday before the observed day for Memorial Day, the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts place a candle at each of approximately 15,300 grave sites of soldiers buried at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park on Marye's Heights (the Luminaria Program). And in 2004, Washington D.C. held its first Memorial Day parade in over 60 years.

To help re-educate and remind Americans of the true meaning of Memorial Day, the "National Moment of Remembrance" resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans "To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence. The Moment of Remembrance is a step in the right direction to returning the meaning back to the day.

I am blessed with a husband who knows how to make things grow...

From vegetables to fruits to flowers and my love for him which grows by leaps and bounds day by day.

We are still awaiting the test results from the echo. Thanks for caring.

Eddie's Echocardiogram

We go Monday for Eddie to have an echo test. He has been having some pitting edema in his legs and medications have not seemed to help. The doctor recommended the echo. I hope nothing is wrong with his heart. He is not experiencing shortness of breath and has never had any palpitations or chest pain, so I wonder if his other medications or even his back problems are causing the edema.

I will let you know.

Great Mother's Day

I had a wonderful time visiting with two of my most favorite people, both of which call me some version of Mother (one calls me Momma and the other will someday call me Grandy (short for grandmother). I caught a couple of glimpses of the other that lives with these two (Mo-Mo the monster), but only when he wasn't sleeping or working (certainly not enough time for me to capture a photo of him, especially with a baby in my arms at all times).

The bigger/older one of the super duo showered me with presents for Mother's Day (see the photos below) (That's scrapbooking stuff and sugar-free pecan delights, if you can't tell with the naked eye) and all I had to do was buy her lunch and supper, wash three loads of clothes, dry one and a-half loads, and fold a load, unload and load the dishwasher, straighten up the apartment, let her get an extra 2 and a-half hour nap and hold the baby the whole time I was there. Plus I gave her a sappy Happy 1st Mother's Day to my daughter card. Not a bad trade at all.

Here is the latest photo of my chub!

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Mother's Day weekend

This will be my seventh Mother's day without my mother and I still miss her so. I would be with her this weekend if she was still here. I thought I would stay home this weekend and just rest, but Shannon has other plans. Shannon said this is her first Mother's Day and she wants to spend it with me and Shawn. So I guess I will take another trip this weekend too, to see her and my grandson. I guess I will take her out to eat for her Mother's day present. Probably that means going out and getting something and bringing it back to the apartment as it will be so crowded that day at all the restaurants in town. Needless to say I am not cooking, since I am a Momma too!

Happy Mother's Day everybody!

Birthday Party Sunday

My nephew turns 3 today and we had a party for him yesterday. It was also an excuse to visit with my grandson, although I don't really need an excuse. We had a good time and I think my nephew really enjoyed his party. I had no idea they were having a dinosaur cake and here I picked out a T-Rex outfit and two dinosaurs for his present. I did good! See how I mixed and mingled Shawn's photos all through the party pics, so you wouldn't get bored just having to look at my grandson's mug all the time. I'm nice like that, otherwise you might have been bored stiff. Here are some pics.