My All Time Favorite Candy

How I make the world all better In an instant!

Mon Cheri

Hands down, my all time favorite candy is Chocolate Covered Cherries. I only like the dark chocolate covered cherries though and the cherries themselves at the center, must be liquid. I definitely don’t care for the milk chocolate or the jellied cherries.

These little gems make everything bad go away in an instant. At the same time these little wonders make everything good – absolutely great. What is there not to like them?

The only downside to these little charms is that I have absolutely No Self-Control when it comes to Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries. If these little wonders are in my presence, they are GONE!!

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Best compliment I’ve received in a long time.

How I horrified my son and daughter-in-law.

I was recently in the check-out lane of a store with my grown son and grandchildren with me.  My daughter-in-law was indeed present at the time and was standing well within site of the cashier  discussing, with my son, whether they eventually wanted to get a certain item.  

At one point the cashier motioned toward me and then said to my son, “Would your wife like….”  I have no idea what else the cashier had in mind to say because my jaw hit the floor and my eyes got as big as saucers. 

Of course at that point the poor cashier took a closer look at the bigger picture of all of us together.  It was instantly apparent at that point the  mistake she had made.  I truly felt sorry for the poor cashier as well as for my daughter-in-law, who I really do like.  I tried to make both of them feel comfortable by telling the cashier that I enjoy being a very involved grandma so I easily understood the mistake that could be made. 

I couldn’t completely suppress the smile though as we left the store.  At one point my son turned to me and said, “God Mom, this is getting bad when you’re being mistaken for being my wife. What is it you’re doing these days anyway?”

This was especially complimentary for me since I am over 25 years older than my son.  I’ve lost about 30 pounds recently and now do some yoga  and walking at home. 

If I needed any encouragement to keep up the slow steady weight loss and exercise program that certainly did the job.  

My Heart Versus My Gut

I’m infamous  in my family for just five words, “I’ve got a gut feeling”.   

I’m not one for following my heart very much.  My heart has gotten me into trouble a few times.  It’s those ”matters of the heart”, better known as love, that have gotten me in the most trouble though.  All but two times I’ve felt like kicking myself and have been known to say to myself, as well as others, “I should have followed my gut”.  

My “gut feelings” are usually those quiet sixth sense feelings of something happening.  I’ve gotten myself into an occasional problem here and there by thinking out loud what my gut was telling me.  One time was just a few weeks ago when I told my son my “gut feelings” about his mother-in-law.  He then repeated what I said to his wife who then used the information as a “got you” moment to her mother.  Those of you with in-laws can imagine the “family uproar” that caused.  Since then I’ve made a promise to myself not to tell my son any of my “gut feelings” involving his in-laws or extended family.  

  Mostly I’ve gotten myself out of many more problems than I can count by following my gut feelings rather than my heart.  One time I was able to get my then adult son and myself out of our house about three minutes before the police descended on our block looking for my next door neighbor’s son for robbery and drugs.  Never mind the fact that I had no idea why we had to get out of the house so quickly, I just knew we had to go quickly.  We returned to the house just five minutes after the last police car pulled away.

An Apology for not Posting to This Blog Recently

As some of you may have noticed I have not updated this blog for some time now.  That certainly wasn’t because I was being lazy or was overly scheduled times wise.  Please read on for a short explanation of the issues I was dealing with.

I seem to have caught a bad stomach virus that left me completely drained of any energy reserves whatsoever.  My immune system was absolutely nonexistent at that point and I had vertigo beyond anything I might have been tempted to wish on my worst enemy (whoever that might be LOL). 

As if all that wasn’t enough I ended up with a bit of food poisoning about this same time.  That in itself left me flat in bed much of the time trying to recover from this horrid invasion of my body.

At more than one point I had all toes crossed and all fingers crossed hoping I would not live to tell of this entire experience.  I was convinced the only way I could possibly feel better in a reasonable time period was to cross over to the next life. 

Well, obviously I didn’t cross over to the next life and with time as well as plenty of rest I am recovering.  Am still working on building up my resistance and energy levels, its definitely taking much longer than I’d like but I’m slowly getting back to something resembling normal.

So kindly give me a little more time and I promise to return with some new article you will all find interesting and useful.

Two things in America I find totally confusing

These two things have always been extremely confusing to me. 

Surprise!!! 4/365 

There are two major things that I find totally confusing and for similar reasons that should become obvious to the reader.  For those who haven’t already thought of this on their own  I will try to explain further.

First, people in America’s two major political parties are one of the more confusing things about life that I know of.  How can supposedly intelligent lawmakers (using that term loosely) who just happen to have a “D” or an “R” before their name see life for average Americans so totally different??