Last two weeks at the Fords: I am not sure if I will like a bi- weekly format for the Ford Crier. I had a hard enough time trying to remember what happened in a week. Now I have to reminisce back two weeks. Well, bare with me as I play with my newsletter.
Mother's Day has become a big holiday in our home. I really like on the celebrating special occasions and Mother's Day is as special a day calendar as they come. I want pampering!! The day started with breakfast at McDonalds and ended with all kinds of gifts. I bought myself a new file cabinet for my business because it is growing and I need to grow more organized with it. I decided to go all out and buy a solid oak one that looks just fabulous in the living room. Erika made me a wonderful tea pot
picture with a poem and tea bag (School Art). Moni and Jessi bought me a Mary Englebreit coffee mug that says, " Every Mother is a Working Woman! " Jim let me get a Bread Machine. Allowing me to have such a large appliance in our tiny kitchen is as much a gift as going out and buying it for me.
Anyway, who cares who went to the store and made the purchase? It was a Mother's Day gift all the same!
Life has slowed down a bit last week but it will pick up again until I leave for California. I will be in the Sunshine State from June 6-29. I will be on vacation while I celebrate both of my parents birthdays. My mom turns 50 on the 14th and I am planning to see to it that she spends a little money on
herself (ha ha)! My Dad turns 54 on the 28th and he has planned a camping trip for us girls that will probably end up giving him more gray hair but hopefully will be much fun. Erika is eager for school to end and vacation to start. I am just eager for some WARMTH! The temperature around here has
forgotten to turn a few pages on its calendar.
Annoyance of the Week; Now that I have a bread machine, I have been trying out all kinds of recipes. The bummer was my first several loaves were flat. Old yeast in the refrigerator was the root of my failure. I went to the Health Food store to buy some bulk stuff and my loaves got a little better but still were quite dense. I had to finally buy expensive yeast from the grocery store and made my first perfect loaf of bread a week and about 10 loaves later.
Word of the Week; The word for this week is " wean. " That is to accustom a young mammal to
take food by means other than nursing. That young mammal is Monika and how it happened was quite surprising to me. I offered to nurse her a couple of mornings ago while still lounging in bed and she pushed me away with one hand and reached for her NUK (a pacifier) with the other. She quite
contentedly stuck that NUK in her mouth and sucked away. It horrified me, to be honest. It is the end of an era in my life. The cow stage is over, what comes next? I think it is the Mother Hen stage.
The End