Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Next Sunday is Grandparent's Day. Share a favorite memory, photo, recipe, or something you learned from a grandparent. 

My grandmothers and I were close. I would travel to Baltimore every summer and spend my summer with my maternal grandmother.  My maternal grandmother worked at the VA Hospital in the canteen then she took a job caring for a lady who was injured in an automobile accident. I can still remember how patient and caring she was with this young lady she cared for.  I can also remember making care packages for my uncle who was serving in Vietnam.  My grandmother didn't have much money, but there was nothing I did without while in Baltimore with her.  Often we traveled to Washington D.C to shop, see shows, or visit all the monuments.

My paternal grandmother was a faithful, Christian woman.  There wasn't a church service she missed. I never knew how she did it, but every Sunday after church there was a feast at her house!  And she never believed in doing any work on a Sunday!!  maybe clean the dishes but that was all!!  After dinner, we would sit on her porch and just talk.  The memory I have the most is when my oldest daughter was facing her second heart surgery; she was 16 months old at this time.  We were in Boston at Boston's Children Hospital.  The surgeon came to speak to hub and I and explained my daughter had 95% chance of not making it through surgery and 100% chance without the surgery she would die within a year.  I called my grandmother back home, crying my eyes out, and just wanted to hear her voice and her wisdom. My grandmother was that type of person.  BTW my daughter did survive this surgery.

2. What's a quote from a book (besides The Bible) that has stayed with you? ee

I can't think of a quote from a book, but a couple of quotes that have stayed with me are these two: This one is by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This one I said to my daughters about EVERYDAY: "Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."  I wanted my daughters to be independent.

The second quote I really have had to learn (the hard way) by Robert Frost: " In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

3. What's your number one food pet peeve? 

Serving me dressing in a little bowl for a huge salad!!

BUT, I shouldn't complain because I saw/heard about someone going through the McDonald's Drive through. This person ordered a Big Mac without the bun.  When this person got home and opened the container, not only was there no bun, but no hamburger either: just a box of lettuce and sauce!!

4. What's one thing about you that is still the same as it was when you were young? 

I would have to say my hair.  I am a lucky one with still some thick hair.

5. September is National Preparedness Month...does your family have an emergency plan? Do you have some sort of preparedness kit you keep on hand? If so, tell us one thing that's kept there. 

I do not have an emergency plan or a preparedness kit.  I know I should and I keep telling myself to be prepared, but I haven't yet.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I went to a football game Friday night.  Tuesday at school, I was told I was on the local news.  What on earth for????  The teachers showed me a picture and sure enough the camera person from our local TV station was filming the cheerleaders and here comes me walking right through the cheerleaders oblivious to the camera person.

Have a great rest of the week and Enjoy Life!