70th Birthday

My favorite red velvet cupcakes were made for me by daughter Kris..not from a box but from scratch.

They were scrumpious and just finished the last one tonite!

Birthday cards from my 70th. Celebrated with family with a combined party with my grandson Alex who will

be 22 this weekend. I am not fond of lozta attention on me so sharing a party has been wonderful for me.

Now about this birthday: I started my blog working up to this big birthday and have reached this goal.

See birthdays have never been easy for me as I disliked getting older for a long time. Family did not seem

to understand this aspect of my "just another day" attitude I have had about this. Another thing I dislike is surprises and my husband never listened and yesterday he got me a ipap and I was speechless. My first thought was to return it but with my whole family watching my reaction I gave up. We are retired and I am always trying to keep it low keyed! I kept it and do like it but I would have been happy with some of my favorite Hershey bars, whick my daughter get me. Funny story was he bought me a new laptop for our anniversay and I did have him return that. Needless to say family was not present when this happened and to this day they do not know this story. Really I am a simple girl who does not like expensive

anything, am a great bargain hunter and try to never buy anything that is not on sale. Hubby never looks at prices and just buys what he sees and likes. Needless to say we are polar opposites!

Anyway made it through 70th birthday and moving on! Just would have been perfect if I was born on the 29th leap days and I would be so much younger now!

Pretty Roses

These are the red roses I received for Valentines Days from my husband.

They were very pretty althought they were short lived.

Happy Valentines Day

            I put together this for my husband for    
            Valentines Day with his favorite dark
             Milky Way.
             He is a diabetic so light on the candy!

             Hope he likes it!

Way Back When

A high school classmate sent me an email with pictures of things from our childhood and this one
made me laugh and started me to thinking. I always remember my Mom in the basement doing
laundry and how long she would spend down there. Needless to say I apparently did not go to
see how she was doing! Not like today when we throw a load of clothes in the washer and go
check email or whatever. Not only did she stand there thru the whole procedure but weather
permitting then hauled them all outside and hung them on the clothes. If necessary she had indoor
racks for hanging to dry. At some point later they had to be folded, ironed and put away.
Keeping in mind she also worked full time as a cook in a very hot restaurant kitchen, had a large
garden and 3 kids.

And I thought I was busy when I was working. Something to think about.