Tuesday talk

happylib · Guru

Tuesday talk

happylib · Guru

I guess I should have been a bit more vague because it's not really a moment but a thing. My Grandma Urban would always pat our thighs when we sat on her lap or next to her. I have lots of treasured memories but this one sticks out the most. I have found myself doing this with both of my children and it always brings back that sweet memory of feeling loved, safe, secure and all was right with the world.

Robin · Guru

Hi, Libby!

It looks like you had to do housework anyway. Sorry.

I was at a meeting at church.

I'm sure I have lots of answers for the question but right now I'm thinking of my aunt.

She is my mom's sister, and we have never been close.

She never had kids and imo was never good around kids.

But when I was a teenager, she let me drive her little red Fiat car around Birmingham.

It was TERRIFYING because it was a busy city but still so fun, and I was amazed that she let me do that.

Robin · Guru

I can't find my camera anywhere!! :cry

I took a picture for my weigh-in with my cellphone.

Now I have NO IDEA how to get the picture from inside my phone to anywhere else--email it to someone, put it in the computer, NO IDEA.

Plus I remembered at my church meeting this morning that I have some pictures I really need for an official church scrapbook--in my camera.

So that gives me a vague idea that maybe the camera is still at church from last week's meeting.

??

Robin · Guru

My church is having a cake contest tomorrow evening at their Wednesday night dinner kick-off event.

The age ranges start at Kindergarten but Mark is going to enter a cake. He can compete with K through 6th graders. He's probably made more cakes than all of them combined.

Mark loves to bake.

He picked out a funfetti cake mix, strawberry frosting, and star-shaped sprinkles.

I thought Henry would enjoy making/decorating a cake but when he got more of the details, he didn't like the idea of making a cake he wouldn't get to eat.

I *think* the cakes will be auctioned at the end of the contest, but I'm not certain.

So I bought several disposable square cake pans. That way, we can make two cakes out of each mix. We'll eat one and compete with the other.

Robin · Guru

I'm going to make an apricot nectar cake to enter in the cake contest.

Glen's Aunt Lisa makes that every year at Thanksgiving, and it is always delicious.

I hope mine turns out yummy.

ineedcoffee · Senior Member

Good afternoon! Crazy day at work today!

My favorite memory of my grandmother is watching M*A*S*H with her late at night.
She would let me sneak out of bed after my parents went to sleep.
We would sit in her den wrapped in blankets, watch TV and she would tell me what it was like to be a nurse in world war II.

Best time ever! No wonder I became a nurse.

Sonya · Guru

becca, what an amazing story!

Sonya · Guru

let see, hot summer days remind me of sitting out on my grandparents screened porch in the late afternoon, chatting and watching the cars go by.

(libby, you are much better at these questions than i am. at 7 am, i have no brain power at all)

Sonya · Guru

i found something I hate more than peeling wallpaper. removing old grout.

BLAH

but it looks much better now after I regrouted it.

NOTE: NEVER USE TILE ON A KITCHEN COUNTER. It is cheaper but it is never worth it.

Robin · Guru

Where is everyone this evening?

It's raining cats and dogs here.

Henry and I thought my apricot nectar cake looked and smelled so delicious that we just went ahead and started eating it.

I should go make another one so I can still enter the contest tomorrow.

I'm kinda glad we ate it because it wasn't as moist as it should be.

I'll add more nectar to the next one.

Yummmmm.