Fifty-Three Years...and Everyone is Finally Home!

53 three years...feels like a blink of an eye! No computers, no cell phones, no high-speed trains...Vietnam, our song, "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress," "American Pie," The Stones, The Godfather...Bell bottoms, Pong, my team—the undefeated Miami Dolphins—lol...Watergate, Nixon in China, rotary phones. Hamburger Helper, TV dinners, casseroles, and Jello salads. McDonalds and Burger King, drive-in theaters, Leslie's Fried Chicken in Bellmead...Chatham's, the 1974 Ali vs. Foreman fight—now that was a fight!  

Fifty-three years later, here we are with two kids, five grandkids, three great-grandkids—and each other. Still standing through sickness and health, so many bygone eras, countless memories. Friends and family we've lost, our lives winding down. Remember when I asked you all those years ago what you thought life would look like in 50 years? Well, now we know...  

Forever devoted, I love you. 

These flowers were given to me by my 
Granddaughter in Law, Sara, when they arrived here last Saturday!  She said they were in appreciation for the quilt I'd made their newborn, Sydney.  She said the day it arrived she'd had an awful day.  But then Tylar walked in holding the package...she opened it and just cried!  I think she liked it...lolol  She and our grandson, Tylar, were the ones stationed in Hungary.  Tylar has now been stationed at an airbase in Arkansas!  Everyone made it to our house Saturday, and we had a ton of fun.  

The quilt I made for GreatGran Sydney...

Miss Sydney...

Tylar and Sara...

Lottie, Crystal and William...

Tim (Pops) and Sloane talking things over about her cowgirl hat...lol

This is a bookstore where William lives in Cabot, Arkansas.  What a fun place to visit!  I'd go broke!

While cleaning out Larry's Dad's house, we found these old trading cards!  Also, these old buttons.

They came in bread wrappers back in the 1930's here at a bakery in Waco.  A fun find!  If you bought so many loaves of bread, you could get into a movie at the local theater.

Would you believe that the door on my medicine cabinet fell off???  I couldn't!  I just went to open the right side, like always, and down it came!  Didn't break, thank God!  But Larry couldn't fix it.  The hinge was twisted.

So I ordered a new one.  Why is it that everything that comes from stores these days, you have to end up putting things together?!  What a pain!  Larry is always so sweet about it though...We're going to our Anniversary breakfast then to a huge warehouse mall, full of antiques, this morning.  Should be fun.

Breakfast last week at The Yolk in town...really good.

I made a pumpkin pie for our Saturday dessert...I put crumbles on top.  Loved it!

Should have added a layer of sweetened cream cheese to it but didn't think about it until it was baked!

I reheated the leftover KFC chicken in the air fryer.  Crisped it right up!

If you have left over rice, add butter, Poblano pepper, onion and tomatoes (sautéed)...add a little chicken stock and heat up.  A wonderful lunch! 

I also made Banana Pudding cookies for the girls.

Then yesterday's lunch was pork boneless ribs with a brown sugar and mustard glaze...oh my!

Well, I suppose that's about it for me this week.  I'm praying that you all are well and safe...Have a great and happy weekend!  

So, until next time...