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Envy Zinnias

  • Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:44 pm

A dear friend that I met by blogging and I have a seed exchange this time of year. We put together packets of seeds together for one another and then mail them out so we both can share in out last years “bounty.”

This  year, I have a great deal of zinnia seeds. All colors, sizes, and even shapes of petals. Some were sort of cross bred by accident even! When I saw green zinnias blooming, I  had to go to many various stores and lawn and garden supply places to find them. Finally I found ONE packet. They are called Envy. So I’ll be sending out those to my friend this week some time, along with the other seeds I saved.

 

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Any occasion chocolate

  • Posted on March 17, 2012 at 11:06 pm

I have finally found a place where I can buy chocolate for any occasion and it’s made me a very happy person. Sometimes it’s hard to please everyone in my family, since their favorite chocolates are all different. And I have a big family. One year, I decided to write a list of everyone’s favorite flavor in chocolates. I must admit I had a very impressive list. Over the last few years, for various occasions and holidays, I just buy chocolate. My family are all chocolate lovers, sometimes I think more so than most.

My mom loves chocolate covered cherries, for Christmas. My sisters and brothers are into everything from hazelnut, to milk chocolate. It is the same with my kids. My oldest daughter as well as myself, love mint chocolate. My oldest son, peanut butter chocolate, youngest daughter and son, dark and mild chocolate, respectively.

This Easter, will be as easy as each over the last five years. I used to fill baskets with that grass (the kind that even at Christmas, despite of daily sweeping, for some reason a piece of the stuff is still around.)  I put various candy in the basket, eggs and of course the big chocolate bunnies. As I said, it is easy now. They just want a basket filled with their favorite chocolate, and I now have the list memorized.

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Prom dresses

  • Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:42 pm

It’s nearly that time of the year again. Prom is coming up and it will be my youngest daughter’s Senior prom. She is of course excited about it. The dress has been picked out as well as the shoes, but of course that could change since they have not been bought yet. It’s a big year for my little girl and it’s also bittersweet. It seems like yesterday I was seeing her off on the school bus for her first day of school. I even remember what she wore, and of course how much I cried when the bus left.

We’ll go shopping and looking for other dresses, and she’ll change her mind about shoes, how she wants her hair, and how she will be applying her make up. That is a given. It’s an important night for her. I’ll be dragged from dress shop to shoe shop, by both my oldest and youngest daughter, remembering when it was my oldest prom. Time goes by too quickly.

This year I’m going to try not to cry, get plenty of photos, and not to worry a great deal about after prom. I feel old.

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Awesome Dragonfly Gifts

  • Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:07 pm

Since I collect dragonflies and they have very special meaning to my family and I, coming across dragonfly gifts online,  made me very happy. I have never seen so many various designs and items with dragonflies on so many items. The variety is enough to please everyone, everyone’s  price range and every age, of the lover or collector of such awesome creatures. I personally have never seen such a large and unique variety of dragonfly items. It’s mind boggling, to be honest. I spent hours making wish lists and also lists of items I wanted to buy for family members and a few friends.

Looking through the dragonfly gifts pages brought back a memory that has been in the back of my mind. My family had once grown tired of me telling them little tidbits of information about these awesome creatures, but one of the stories I had read was an old American Indian (which is part of my heritage and race) belief about the meaning of seeing a dragonfly or a lot of dragonflies after a person passed away. It is said that it means the loved one who passed had gotten to their destination, and shows the length of time it took for them to arrive.

No one really believed this story when I repeated it, so I left it be. When my Mother in Law passed, I was at home and her sons were at our family farm with her. She died peacefully. My husband called to tell me that mom had passed and said that twenty minutes later, there was a swarm of dragonflies so thick over our cornfield, that at first the brothers thought it was small birds, until they walked out to the field line. While I was on the telephone, I looked out into our back yard and there was a giant swarm of dragonflies in the sky out there also. I would not have seen them, had I not been at our house picking up the younger kids.  I called our oldest daughter to tell her about her grandma, and she said she had looked out her bathroom window 15 min. before I called and said she saw swarms of dragonflies out back which surprised her since the sun was setting. I told her about the ones that had shown up out at the homestead and also my house.  Neighbors indeed wondered where they were coming from and why only in our yards. It will be three years in May that my Mom in law has passed. Dragonflies carry a special place in the whole family’s hearts now. I’m thankful for finding dragonfly gifts, as I plan on buying a special item for all of the members of the family.

 

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Alone time shopping

  • Posted on March 11, 2012 at 7:51 pm

Today I took some time out and went shopping all by myself. Normally I don’t like to shop, unless it is online, but today I not only took my time looking at various items I need for the house and garden, but also for items that were just for me. Things I have been neglecting to buy, because the money seems to be needed for other uses and other people. I got into my cookie jar and put aside the vacation money, but I had taken a little bit I had saved, to spend on items I needed.

While shopping I, like most mothers I know felt a bit guilty getting some things I could have went without, but lately I’ve been sort of under the weather mood wise, so I got some make up, my favorite perfume, and some face cream products I have used for years, but was running low on.

I also enjoyed tea in a little shop that hardly anyone really notices unless they are patrons who have either found it by mistake, or word of mouth. I love the atmosphere there and also the owner. Brewing a good cup of tea the right way, is sort of a lost art. I myself find it very therapeutic in a calming sort of way. The little lady that owns the shop, makes an appoint to know everyone who comes to the shop. Likes, dislikes and also what hobbies or loves they have. She knows I love gardening, and gave me some seeds that had come from her own garden. I don’t know how she knew I would be in today, but it seems she always knows. She told me to plant the seeds in a place that was sunny and it was would be a surprise from her when I saw what comes up. I’m looking forward to summer!

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