I remember as a child my Dad showed me how to pull apart a honeysuckle so I could lick the drop of nectar from it.  I used to enjoy doing that a lot as a kid.  I haven’t done that this year yet, but I did do it last year when I was showing my own kids how to do it.  I was disappointed by their lack of enthusiasm for what I was showing them!  Oh well, maybe when I have grandchildren they will enjoy doing it with me!

Part of the problem is that often times when I cook supper the rest of the family decides at the last minute that they aren’t going to eat dinner. Now I know I’m a good cook, but the only time I can count on everyone coming to the table is if it is take-out Chinese Food or take-out Pizza. And I am NOT ordering take-out food every time we need to eat supper! So I think that I will put the rest of the family in charge of the meal planning, the shopping, and the cooking. I’m tired of wasting time, energy, and money on trying to feed this family. As for me, well I can just fix myself a PB&J sandwich or a bowl of soup if no one cooks!

I can’t blame him for wanting to experience life to its fullest.  He has yet to have his first serious romance, has yet to need to find a way to pay his own way, has yet to be completely independent.  Oh, sweet independence!  I can remember wanting to be solely in charge of my own life!  And now I find myself on the wrong side of fifty years old, and being melancholy for my own youthful exuberance! 

I think that for Christmas I will buy Jon a casio pathfinder watch for Christmas.  I think that even though watches seem to be obsolete to the younger generation, I think that giving a watch to him at this point of his life would be a loving reminder of how valuable time really is.  A suggestion to cherish each hour, each day, and to live it fully.

The saab company is a Swedish company, and they got their start making air plane engines.  When I was very young my parents bought a saab.  It ran a very long time and they ended up giving it to my older sister for her high school graduation present.  I always thought it was a funny looking little car, and it only had three cylinders, which made it sound funny.  My parents loved it though, and it served the family well.  When they gave it to my sister they bought a new one for themselves.  I remember learning how to drive in that car – it had a feature in it that my father called “free wheeling” which meant that even though it was a manual transmission if it was put in “free wheeling” mode it would not stall out if the driver wasn’t using the clutch properly.  Looking back, I think that was a fantastic car to learn to drive in!  I wonder if all the saabs still have that feature!

I’ve always been partial to suvs, though.  The biggest drawback to them is that so many of them don’t get good gas mileage.  I think that the reason I’ve liked them is that they are roomy, like the station wagons we had when we were growing up.

Since that time, I’m pretty sure that schools don’t allow that kind of person to teach!  And since that time, I think that teachers have learned that girls can be just as good as math as boys are!  And in this day and age, any student can get Math Help fairly easily with Online Tutoring if they have Internet access!  The Guaranteach website offers Algebra Help and Math help for a low monthly fee of under $10.  If I had a student that needed help with math, I would certainly do everything I could to get him (or her) that help!  Math is vitally important in today’s world.

Unfortunately I’ve heard that the hospitals don’t hire baby-rockers, and won’t even take them as volunteers anymore!  I think that is so sad!  I think babies need to be held and rocked while their new mothers get some much needed rest before going home from the hospital!

The baby shower is in a few weeks, so I need to get started!  Although last weekend I saw the most adorable little shirts at a gift store that I would have bought in an instant if I realized that I needed a baby gift, so maybe my shopping time won’t be very time-consuming!

Since then, however protein and power bars have evolved a long way.  Most of them taste pretty good!  And I have to admit that if I know that I am going to be running errands all day long and won’t have the chance to sit down and enjoy a nice meal, then grabbing a meal replacement bar is a good alternative to going through a fast food restaurant’s drive through!

Around 5pm I called him to ask him if he was still coming down, and he said that something had come up and he wasn’t coming down until Saturday night around 6pm.  Well, I’m pretty flexible and I was glad I didn’t have to pick him up late at night, but I was a little disappointed because I don’t know if the papayas will stay good another day (they are really ripe) and I wanted him to taste them.  I don’t think he’s ever had fresh papayas before!  And I would have liked to have him here an extra day for visiting too!