Wednesday she came over just as supper was being put on the table.
Asked if she could stay and eat. Jill had made 2 loaves of meatloaf, chicken legs, a beautiful gravy with sauteed onions and mushrooms in it, mashed potatoes, butternut squash . Yum !
Staying to eat is one thing...it's the long time she spends here afterwards that hubby gets pissed off about and I must admit I resent my hours being spent on idle chat when I would rather spend the time doing something else. Tracie is the same age as my Jill.
I do appreciate the times she gets me away from the house. We just don't have that much in common to talk about and she does REPEAT.
I forget how I got her to leave. May have hinted that I needed to spend some time with hubby.
Know she didn't leave without a prompt from me though..
Last night around 6 she was back again.
This time to see if I would show her her great nieces pictures on Facebook.
Looked at hundreds of pictures sitting beside me in my bedroom.
She had just mailed of a box of clothes to her neice for her great niece Jamie and here is the picture Jamie's mom posted in Facebook..
This isn't the first time she has mailed off clothes and things to her.
My kids had very little clothing as infants and toddlers.Pretty much just the basics.
I did alot of my shopping at the Goodwill as each baby came along.
Not being exposed to anyone that had clothing from Baby's R Us types of stores and all those other goodies I was happy and thankful for my finds .
Today...............I'd be so envious of one year old Jamie Beth. She wore 3 birthday outfits on her birthday..
One was monogrammed. Jamie's first birthday. Cake and one candle applique on it too.
I would be correct in saying that my kids didn't have an outfit for every day of the week, let alone enough outfits to change 3 times a day plus seven. Jamie does. Tracie keeps her well supplied in toys too.
Lucky little girl.
Like a lot of wives and mothers in the 50's , I rinsed my diapers out in the toilet.
Never had disposable diapers. Never had diaper service.
Began my married life washing clothes with a scrub board.
When I got my first wringer washer, I was thrilled.
How many times did I catch my maternity smock in a wringer ? Too many ! I shit you not!
Clotheslines, clothes pins. Lived in CA then, but I remember hanging clothes before we moved to CA from MA and clothes pulleys and frozen clothes. Frozen hands too.
I remember my great grandmother, Nana Thomas stretching her cutains on a frame she had to dry after she hand washed them. Bluing is another thing I remember.
My mother use to give us pieces of coal , a glass jar, amonia and food coloring and we would put the coal in the jar and put amonia and food coloring over the coal and beautiful thingies would grow on the coal.
If I thought long enough I might remember the correct word, but efff it!
We called them Coal Castles. Each day we would check to see how much they had grown.
Coal...shoveling coal after the coal truck dumped it down a shute into your cellar.
Those wall heaters in CA were a sight to behold when we moved there. No furnace.
Houses were on slabs. No muss, no fuss. Just turn a switch.
Okay...I'll leave Memory Lane and come back to the present time..
Took off for a few hours with DIL Kim to the Christmas Tree Shop. Got me one of those Perfect Brownie baking pans for $7.99. Not that we make them often, but when we do we now will have a choice of nuts or no nuts all in one pan.
Bought Thanksgiving and Christmas napkins and disposable table covers.
Okay...will just say that my tab came to $59.99 and spare you the details. :0)
Then we went to J.C.Penney Outlet and I shopped some more. A queen sized set of sheets were marked from $49.99 down to $24.99 and I scratched a price thingie off the clerk gave me.
It was for 30 percent off more. Microfiber sheets ended up costing me $14.99....I think!!! What a deal!
Doesn't take much to make me happy....I shit you not!
Of course that's not all I bought, but again I'll spare my fingers this time.
Made an error on Logan's Progress report. He didn't get a Fair for his Effort in Social Studies.
He got Good for Effort. If he had have turned in those 3 assignments it too would have read Excellent in Conduct as his other classes did.
Once again it's nearing the end of the day.
Time to fill the skunk pans up and feed ole hisser Charlie.
Jill worked four hours prepping food this morning and has a 60th something or other to cater for the Sons of Italy Womens Auzxillary tonight.
That should keep her out of trouble for awhile. sigh!
In a few hours it will just be hubby and I at home.
Logan is going to Dracut and will be home tomorrow night.
What to fix for supper is my next challenge before I can call it a day.
Turned the heat on an hour ago. Hubby was cold and I could feel a chill in the house myself.
First time for the heat to be turned on. Time to cover over the A/C unit in the back yard for the winter.
I'm going to go stand in front of the refrigerator with the door open and stare in there just like kids do.
Maybe I'll find something to make.
Certainly won't find it sitting on my arse in front of this computer. I shit you not!
Now this site isn't allowing me to preview before I post.
No smooth sailing. Looks like we hit another rock. :0(
That's All Folks!
Ah, it seems like a day for memories. How about the old Five and Dime stores? Oh, how I loved them. By the way, Jill's menu sounds scrumptious.
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Hey, if Blogger Old Editor is giving you problems, why not try New Ed.? [Said you couldn't Preview] ,-)
ReplyDeleteAbout the stairs lights in this entry, we didn't think them up. Our electrician did! Btw, should have taken a pic of him. He IS the world's CUTEST electrician!
Anyway, all we knew was we needed some light at bottom of stairs, so last step and landing didn't blend-in-together, to us. Husband has depth perception issues with his bad eyes and mine are not young any more either!!!! :-)
I wanted a plug so could put a cute little wall lamp up there. But after Mike heard what we WANTED, he suggested these. Voila!!!!
'Course at first, you can get the "impression" you're in a movie theater, and crave popcorn. ,-) But all kidding aside, I think the cost was worth it. Cheaper than one of us, falling and breaking a hip! :-)
I have to say that "cost-effective thing," because I'm so Scotch [I really am 1/4], I hate to spend money. Especially now! -Bleahhhh-
Just added my name, to your Follower Thingy.
ReplyDeleteI don't have it on my blog. I use Google Reader, to see new posts, on blogs I like to read. So I don't pay that much attention to whether my name has been added or not.
Lots of personal reasons for not using Follower Button on my Sidebar. But one is, I've got a goodly number joined, but you can't tell me that all who joined, are still reading me! So, what's the use? ............. On the other hand, I've been reading here, without being signed in as a Blogger Follower here.
Just my choice though, about having it now or not. Just me. I'm not saying it, to influence anyone else!<---There! Do I sound repentent enough, for saying about the Follower Button? LOL
jill's food sounded soo good. Love to eat but not to cook lol. getting chilly here to.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking, although we have been hit but this economy, it still isn't the same sort of hardship for us that it would have been 50 years ago. Of course, I am not as good at self control as your parents would have been. I think I have 8 credit cards! Shhhh. Don't tell. I was tellin my Mom about you and the skunks and your blogging. She recently retired and I want to get her started. I think she will like blogging. Don't you?
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