Theme Thursday — Bottle

The age old question:

Who's better?

Jeannie (with her bottle)

or Samantha?

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Theme Thursday — Bread

I got some starter last November from a friend at church. I hadn't had any since I left New Jersey in 2000.

Now I make between three and six loaves of bread a week. Yum!

I wish I could send some to you over the 'net.

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Theme Thursday — History

I used to love going through my grandma's jewelry box that was in her vanity drawer. There really wasn't anything of value in there; I just enjoyed looking at everything with her. When I was getting a few things out for this week's theme, I realized I could have that much joy going through my own with my kids, even when I don't have anything of real monetary value. Here are a few of my special things from my history.

My great-grandma's birthday was on December 26th. Mine is on December 30th. I was the oldest great-grandchild born to the oldest grandchild. I don't know that any of that had a bearing on anything, but my grandma told me that I was admiring my great-grandma's birthstone (not real) ring that my great-grandpa had given her many years ago. I was five at the time. She apparently told my grandma right then and there (okay, maybe later when I wasn't around) that when she died that I was to have that ring. Here it is:

She died on the same day that the Challenger crashed. I'd been married about seven months, and she'd just had her 93rd birthday the previous month.

Here is the promise ring that Hubby gave me in high school:

The picture almost makes it look like a big diamond. Almost. But it's a bunch of tiny ones in a silver setting.

This is a ring he gave me for Christmas one year with sapphires, because they are blue, my favorite color.

And here are our high school rings. I have my birthstone, but since his is pink, he went with the school color of royal blue. Probably a good choice for a guy.

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Theme Thursday — Late

photo courtesy of Flickr by Leo Reynolds

Here are a few common clichés we use here in the United States with the word late:

Cliché: Better late than never
Explanation: 1. It is better to conclude something late than never to conclude it.

Cliché: A day late and a dollar short
Explanation: 1. Just missing something by a narrow margin.

Cliché: It's never too late to learn
Explanation: 1. No matter how old you are, you can still learn new things.

And pretty much the only French phrase I remember from my one semester of French in college:

Je suis en retard. I am late.

I thought it was important to remember, although it's a trait I've worked hard on my entire adult life.

Are you a late person, an early person, or a just-on-time person?

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Theme Thursday — Collection

I have had a doll collection since before I knew I had one. My mom started it for me when I was young and it was added to over the years.

She had a few military friends who would send authentic dolls when they were stationed overseas. Plus she picked some up in early travels to Mexico and Hawaii. My grandparents got me a couple when they visited the Holy Lands in the '70s.

As an adult I've added very little to it. The five large porcelain Hummels I've added are the ones from mail-order and they are supposed to be limited edition. I just got them because I liked them, I doubt they have any significant value, and I got them before kids. The one on the far right is actually a plastic Hummel goose girl from Germany that my mom had her friend Pat get me.

Hubby and I also purchased the little miniature painted bronze Hummels. They are somewhere around 3/4 to 1 inch tall. I'm too lazy to get a ruler out just to tell you.


I took this picture right before we packed the boxes in Virginia over a year ago, but my collection hasn't changed so I just used the same pictures. Since we were short on space there, a lot of extra trinkets found their way inside the doll cabinet. You might have noticed them in the pictures. If you didn't, please don't go back and look, and if you did, pretend you didn't.

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Theme Thursday — Flight

This was two of my three oldest children's first plane ride, when we were moving from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Fort Dix, New Jersey. We were actually flying from Little Rock, Arkansas, after having spent most of the summer visiting family in North Central Arkansas. (Chatty's first two plane rides were from Springfield, Missouri, to St. Louis, Missouri, and back for minor heart surgery due to her premature birth. She was roughly 2 1/2 weeks old, having just been born at 27 weeks gestation.)

These pictures are from Hubby's Airborne School book. He attended soon after being commissioned in the Army in 1988. Who really knows if any of these are him.

These last three pictures are the Thunderbirds from Independence Day weekend in 2001 at Scott AFB, Illinois. Since my scanner is still not working I had to take a picture of the picture and then download it, and when I enhanced it the color kind of came out bright. I wish you could see them in my album.

We lived about six miles from one of the gates, and the first picture is from my backyard one day when they were practicing. The other two pictures were from one of the actual air show days.

Theme Thursday ~ WILD

This is my first time to participate, but considering all the wild and crazy people in our house, and all the wild and crazy things that we do, this is a perfect place to start! See if you agree.

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