Even though I have a blog, sometimes I struggle for the right (or should I say the “write”?) words to say to people that I love. Today, being Mother’s Day, I feel that the every day “I Love you Mom” just isn’t enough. So when I found this cute little video on YouTube that is a tribute to mothers everywhere, I decided that it would help to express how much I appreciate my own mother. Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
Scholarships are the hands down best way to reduce the cost of attending college or trade schools. When I was expecting my first born, I did a lot of reading about parenting issues, and one of the things that I was most interested in was how to be able to afford to send my children to school. Back then the Internet wasn’t even invented yet, so most of my research was done by reading magazines; most notably a magazine named “Parents.”
One of the more interesting suggestions that some of the articles in that magazine seemed to be making was to NOT save a lot of money for college, as the families that scrimped and saved for college were the ones that would get less financial assistance. The argument was made that financial hardship would actually benefit the students in the long run. What do you think of that advice?
Just a few minutes ago I was reading a facebook entry by a friend of mine that said that guilt does not accomplish anything other than to make you feel bad. Then the entry encourages the reader(s) to let go of their guilt.
That entry made me think for a moment about guilt. My own opinion of guilt is that if people did not feel guilt, then they would do a lot of bad things. I think that guilt is a gift. Kind of like our own Jiminy Cricket. Helps to keep us from making jackasses out of ourselves, you know what I mean?
My aunt is allergic to olives and olive oil. Sounds crazy, but it is true. So she finds it very difficult to go out to eat at restaurants, since so many chefs have been using olive oil to prepare their dishes. They claim that it is healthy for you and it is hard to get away from. She was telling me about a time when her brother-in-law, knowing full well that she was allergic to olives, gave her a gift card to The Olive Garden for a Christmas gift! Can you SAY passive aggressive?
I cannot even imagine how difficult it must be for someone to have food allergies and have to check the labels of every thing that they buy at the grocery store, or ask the wait staff at a restaurant to find out what is used to prepare the meals. That must be a major pain in the neck! I’m really glad that so far I have not found any food that makes me ill, other than an occasional heart burn.
One of my all-time favorite ice cream flavors is the Caramel Praline Crunch made by Breyers. Whenever I go to the grocery store, I look for it. More often than not the store does not have any. Not that they are out of stock, there usually isn’t even a space on the shelf in the ice cream freezer. Months go by and no Caramel Praline Crunch in sight. So tonight, when I had to swing by the Food Lion on my way home to pick up milk, when I saw that the store had it in stock AND it was buy one get one free, well I just HAD to buy two of them. Never mind that there is no room in my freezer for it – I will MAKE room!
With my prize tucked safely in the car, getting ready to head home, I called Chad and told him that I was on my way home with the Caramel Praline Crunch ice cream that we love so much, and he cheered “awesome!” I asked him to please be ready to help me bring groceries in the house in twenty minutes (I ended up buying some porterhouse steaks on sale and some hamburger and some pork tenderloin too.) He was ready and waiting to hustle the food into the house and dish us out some of the coveted ice cream. Tonight, life was good.