The Waiting Is The Hardest Part…

Fifty-two years of marriage brought them 3 children, 9 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren.

She's been waiting almost fifteen years to hold his hand once more and the waiting is almost over.  Goodbyes have been said and the only thing left to do is continue to pray for her peaceful journey home.

Well, just one more thing. 

Grandma when you're reunited with your best friend, will you give Grandpa a hug and kiss from me?

UPDATE:  The waiting is over. Grandpa came to pick her up this afternoon.  Together again. Forever and ever.

Merry Glitzmas!

 

Wishing you the Merriest of Christmases and

the shiniest of New Year’s from

The Southern Girl Gang!

Friday Follow & What Did You Say?

Happy Friday everyone.  Hopefully all your weekend plans will go smoothly and still leave you enough time to recuperate and rest for Monday.  I’m linking up with Java over at Never Growing Old for Friday Follow.  She’s hosts it every week, as well as a Blogger list of Over 40 Bloggers.  If you’re looking for some new reading material, make sure to check the list out. 

Yesterday on the Facebook, one of the girls I went to high school with mentioned how much she liked the new Volkswagon Passat commercial and the misheard lyrics for Elton John’s song Rocket Man.  We’ve all probably done the same thing once or twice in our life. There's even a Friends episode where they’re discussing the most romantic song ever and Phoebe thinks it’s that song Elton John wrote for the Who’s the Boss? guy and then starts singing, “Hold me close, young Tony Danza”. 

Anyway, I told my friend that commercial makes me smile and remember when Katiebug was a teeniney little girl and thought the song was “When A Man WAS A Woman”…or when she wanted to “Rock and Roll all night. And PART of everyday”.  Not the whole day mind you; just part.  (And not party like KISS was singing in the song.)  My friend said it was only last week when she read the lyrics to Don McLean’s “American Pie” that she found out that song was in fact, not about her and he was not going to ‘drive Michelley to the levee’ but instead the Chevy.  Not to be left out, I may or may not have believed Keith Urban had some major product placement in his song when he told that girl to “take her cotton Levi sweater”.  That is, until I learned he really said “take your cat and leave my sweater.”

There is, in fact, a website dedicated to misheard  lyrics and some of them will make you literally laugh out loud.  Like the one about “Sixteen Tons”.  The misheard lyric was “Yuh load sixteen tons and what do you get. Another deodorant, deeper in debt” when in actuality it’s “You load sixteen tons and what do you get.  Another DAY OLDER and deeper in debt.” Or what about the Dolly Parton song “9 to 5”?  The misheard lyrics were: “Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen. Pour myself a cup of damn b****in'.” The correct lyrics are: ‘Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, Pour myself a cup of AMBITION.' That reminds me. Candance said she sings that song in her head every morning as she walks to the kitchen to make coffee.  I’m going to have to ask her just what it is she’s singing. 

So now, y’all have to have some incidents of misheard lyrics.  Let me hear about it.  I can’t wait.  Have a great weekend!

What’s Cooking Wednesday

Today’s recipe is 1) again from Pinterest; and 2) not anything that has to be cooked so I’m not sure how it fits into What’s Cooking Wednesday but just humor me, OK? 

Y’all all know that I’m not working right now.  Because of that I’m doing everything I can to make the unemployment stretch and have given up a lot of things that I used to take for granted but one thing I refuse to give up is my coffee.  For my sanity and the safety of anyone I may come in contact with as well. I will admit I made the occasional visit to the drive thru java joint with the holiday red cups but never, ever on a regular basis.  I did always have several varieties of liquid coffee creamer on hand, both at home and the office.  And I’m embarrassed to say, never really gave a thought to spending $3.00+ on a bottle of coffee creamer.  Times two or three, depending on how many bottles/flavors I bought.  My how things change. I used the last of the already purchased creamer today and when I went to the Walmart tonight to get a few groceries, I remembered one of my latest pins. I could make my own coffee creamer so I got the items needed to make sure I was able to get my coffee in the morning.  

There are only three ingredients and you probably already have them on hand.  Here’s what you need to make your own French Vanilla Coffee Creamer:

• 14 oz. Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 14 oz. Milk – whole, 2%, skim…your choice
• 2 tsp. Vanilla
• Mason Jar – pint size works fine

Add the sweetened condensed milk to your jar

Fill the can with the 14 oz. of milk and empty it into the jar also.

Then add the vanilla.  Mexican vanilla if you have it. I think it’s the best. 

If you look closely you’ll see I used 1 tablespoon instead of 2 teaspoons.  Oopsie!

Shake, shake, shake it up until it’s blended all nice and thick and creamy.  See?

I put the lid on and put it in the icebox.  As I was closing the door, something caught my eye…

Sitting right on top of the trash was the empty container – with a pour spout I might add.  It was already rinsed out so I removed the wrapper, thoroughly washed it in hot soapy water, then dried it. 

Bazinga!  Now I wouldn’t have to bother with unscrewing the lid each morning because I could just flip the top with one hand AND could pour it into my cup in a more controlled manner.  Most of the creamer fit into the recycled container and I drank the rest put the remaining back into a smaller Mason jar.

I can’t wait to make some different flavors.  Oh I don’t know, say maybe a batch with a little peppermint extract and perhaps a dash of chocolate syrup?  So many possibilities!  At a fraction of what they cost at the grocery store PLUS – I know exactly what’s in it.  Love it!

Is it time for coffee yet?