Family, Favorites, Holidays, Memories

Favorite Easter Memories

  1. Early morning Sunrise Services, sitting outside, shivering in the early desert air
  2. Breakfast in the church fellowship hall
  3. Beautiful dresses sewn by my mother
  4. Dying eggs  –the smell of vinegar, writing on eggs with a white crayon, leaving them in the dye a long time to get vivid colors
  5. Hiding and seeking the eggs
  6. The year my dad hid an egg in the rafters of the front porch and it wasn’t found ’til months later
  7. Easter hymns: “Hear the bells ringing they’re singing that we can be born againnnnnnn…”
  8. Imagining the wonder of the women who found the empty tomb
  9. Easter baskets with chocolate and jelly beans and plastic grass

    Easter Sunday, Late 70s
Brands, Favorites, Humor

Reasons I Switched from IE to Chrome Last Week

  1. Got tired of IE taking forever and ever to load
  2. IE crashed every time I tried to load Facebook Scrabble
  3. That stupid yellow bar that popped up constantly
  4. When I asked on FB for advice about how to stop IE from crashing, the overwhelming comment given was to switch to Chrome
  5. My son has been telling me to switch for years
  6. When I finally tried it out of frustration with IE, Chrome loaded about 10x faster.
  7. It imported all my bookmarks and even my favorites bar
  8. Google is tracking everything about me anyway, so why not make it easier for them
Books

Items on My Night Stand

  1.  lamp
  2. bottle of water
  3. Carmex
  4. 2 Prescriptions
  5. allergy medicine
  6. 5 different bracelets
  7. a ceramic box holding mismatched earrings
  8. 3 empty bowls
  9. 1 empty plate
  10. half a dozen napkins
  11. my college degree
  12. a bag of cough drops
  13. 3 AA batteries
  14. a thermometer
  15. paperwork for the website I write for
  16. a phone list from work
  17. anklet that says “Maui”
  18. prescription eye drops I haven’t used in 6 months
  19. 2 Tootsie roll wrappers
  20. blue plastic maracas from the Silvis Moonlight Parade last August
  21. coupons Caleb made for me when he was a kid
  22. 2 hair ties
  23. another box of allergy meds (different kind)
  24. cell phone bill
Favorites, Survivor

Thoughts On the Current Season of Survivor

  1. I am abundantly glad Colton is gone.
  2. Bad people get what is coming to them.
  3. Which means Alicia will soon get caught by karma too.
  4. Kim and Chelsea seem to be the only strategy-driven players left.
  5. Tarzan is as annoying as Coach was the first season he played.
  6. Christina is either a bigger person than I am, or a cloying yes-man.
  7. Jeff Probst gets hotter every season.
  8. It must be much more difficult while in the game to develop a clearer picture of your opponents.
  9. It’s cute and sadly mistaken how Jonas thinks he can be a leader now.

Love Survivor!!

Family, Favorites, Memories

Things I Miss About My BFF Wendy

  1. Her laugh – the way she would throw her head back and clap her hands together and laugh with her whole soul
  2. Her ability to get things done.  Now.
  3. Her willingness to stop whatever she was doing to do something more important for her friends.
  4. Her enthusiasm for life.
  5. Her refusal to let the cancer define her as a person.
  6. Her stubborness.  It’s a trait we share.
  7. Her slightly naughty sense of humor, which probably most of you didn’t get to see.
  8. Her all encompassing love for her children, all 5 of them.
  9. Lunch at Chi-chis.  Or Bishops.  Or Hardees.
  10. Girls time in DesMoines with all 3 of us BFFs
  11. The way she never ever ever complained about anything.  Not the cancer, not her divorce, not the chemo, not even at the end.
  12. Her drive and ambition.
  13. Her cream cheese mints.
  14. Planning events with her.
  15. When she would load up all the 8 million kids and take them to her house to make cookies.
  16. How she always told me the truth.  Always.  No matter whether I wanted to hear it or not.
The 3 of us - www.wendysbutterflygarden.com

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