I'm linking with Joyce @ From This Side of the Pond
and all the wonderful Hodgepodgers for the
Wednesday Hodgepodge.
Join the fun here.
1. This time last year where were you? Working at a nursing home and starting to get excited about our upcoming New England cruise.
2. In honor of National Pink Day (June 23rd) tell us your favorite pink food or beverage. I like a good medium-rare steak. Was it on the menu at your house yesterday? No. Do you like to wear the color pink? I used to, but rarely wear it these days. If we came to visit would we find this color in your home decor? NO! Blush-fuschia-salmon-raspberry-your favorite shade of pink? Of those? Blush.
3. Stop and smell the roses, looking through rose colored glasses, a rose by any other name, not all moonlight and roses, no rose without a thorn...which rosy saying currently fits your life in some way? Stop and smell the roses. Explain. I'm learning to be more mindful of the everyday miracles, to be thankful in all things, to enjoy each moment.
4. Are you a 'reader'? Absolutely! Do you tend to read lighter books in the summer months? Sometimes. Do you have a summer reading list? No. I don't do well at sticking with a list. I just read what appeals to me at the time. If so, give us a title or two. Again, not a list, but I've got several silly little cozy mysteries waiting on my Kindle, stacks of books gathered from Goodwill, yardsales, and used book sales, and I am working my way through the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson and the Cork O'Connor series by William Kent Krueger.
5. Share with us one rose and one thorn from your weekend. A rose...spending Saturday at an auction with my mom. A thorn...our son didn't bother to call his dad for Fathers' Day.
6. Insert your own random thought here. As you can imagine, my thoughts this week are pretty much focused on this coming weekend's visit with my biological father. We've been writing for six months or so and we've spoken briefly on the phone three times now, but this will be our first face-to-face. We've saved the big topics and hard questions for this meeting. Today I will be going through photos, culling a collection to take with me.
2. In honor of National Pink Day (June 23rd) tell us your favorite pink food or beverage. I like a good medium-rare steak. Was it on the menu at your house yesterday? No. Do you like to wear the color pink? I used to, but rarely wear it these days. If we came to visit would we find this color in your home decor? NO! Blush-fuschia-salmon-raspberry-your favorite shade of pink? Of those? Blush.
3. Stop and smell the roses, looking through rose colored glasses, a rose by any other name, not all moonlight and roses, no rose without a thorn...which rosy saying currently fits your life in some way? Stop and smell the roses. Explain. I'm learning to be more mindful of the everyday miracles, to be thankful in all things, to enjoy each moment.
4. Are you a 'reader'? Absolutely! Do you tend to read lighter books in the summer months? Sometimes. Do you have a summer reading list? No. I don't do well at sticking with a list. I just read what appeals to me at the time. If so, give us a title or two. Again, not a list, but I've got several silly little cozy mysteries waiting on my Kindle, stacks of books gathered from Goodwill, yardsales, and used book sales, and I am working my way through the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson and the Cork O'Connor series by William Kent Krueger.
5. Share with us one rose and one thorn from your weekend. A rose...spending Saturday at an auction with my mom. A thorn...our son didn't bother to call his dad for Fathers' Day.
6. Insert your own random thought here. As you can imagine, my thoughts this week are pretty much focused on this coming weekend's visit with my biological father. We've been writing for six months or so and we've spoken briefly on the phone three times now, but this will be our first face-to-face. We've saved the big topics and hard questions for this meeting. Today I will be going through photos, culling a collection to take with me.
I hope all goes well with your upcoming visit with your biological father. You must be so excited!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I really am. Also a little nervous.
DeleteI love William Kent Krueger’s writing so will check that series out. I will put you in my prayer journal this weekend. I’m sure you have a lot of emotion churning and I hope the meet up is a happy experience for you both.
ReplyDeleteThey are very good mysteries. Not quite cozies, but not super technical, either...lots about the Native Americans in Minnesota. Churning is a good word for how I'm feeling. Thank you for the prayers.
DeleteKeeping in prayer...I feel bad for you and Tim about your son...truly I do. Sending you big hugs.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I've been hurt so many times before that I've just stopped letting it bother me, but it's different for Tim. And it's a real slap in the face as he just finished going down there after work and on a Saturday to build Matt's shed for him. :(
DeleteHi Stacy. Our oldest daughter didn't call or send a card either. Heart-breaking to us, but adult children acting like this is not that uncommon. Times we live in. Very sad. I hope the meeting with your bio-dad goes well.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I know quite a few people whose children have chosen to estrange themselves from their parents. 2 Timothy 2:1-5. We were warned.
DeleteI'm sad for you about your son. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yeah. Kids.
DeleteI do have pink in my closet but not in my home.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your answers.
I am sorry to see your son didn't call on Father's Day.
Hope your meeting goes good with your biological father.
Have a good Wednesday.
Thank you, Gloria!
DeleteYou are going to love that New England cruise. We sure did. That makes me sad too about your son. Hopefully, your husband wasn't too hurt. It is my hope that your meeting with your biological dad will be a good one and you will both be refreshed by meeting the other. May the Lord bless you in all your conversation with His love and peace.
ReplyDeleteOops! We went on the cruise last summer and we did enjoy it. As for our son...I'm used to it, but I think it was a pretty big slap in the face for Tim. Thank you for the good thoughts and blessing about meeting my father.
DeleteAnother fun Hodgepodge from Joyce! Stacy, I pray that your meeting with your dad goes so well and that questions can be answered and a good relationship can be formed. I think you have a good start!
ReplyDeletePraying all goes well at your meeting. It must be so exciting but I imagine a little scary too.
ReplyDeleteThank you and yes, it is!
DeleteI am praying your visit goes well Stacy. Take lots of pictures!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Susan, and I will have my phone and my camera with me. He is 81 and has a pace maker and if they shut the country down again (and I have a feeling they are really going to try in the not so distant future) who knows if I will get to see him in person again.
DeleteArgh … how on earth could I have forgotten medium-rare steaks? My favorite! Don't you hate it when our men are hurt by their thoughtless kids? Tom's son did call, but it's always awkward; Tom's so happy and doesn't realize son's is just an obligatory gesture.
ReplyDeleteCalls and visits with our son are always awkward, too. We rarely go to his home because his wife stays in the kitchen, he sits and plays his bass guitar (turned up too loud to talk), and the kids either bounce off the walls or play video games. We don't feel very welcome. We're sort of used to it, but this seemed a real slap in the face since Tim just helped him build his shed.
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ReplyDeleteI hope your upcoming meeting with your biological dad goes well! That's so cool that you finally get to meet in person.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Julie!
DeleteWhat is it with kids today? Our youngest didnt call Ricky until TUESDAY & then said she forgot it was Father's Day... REALLY?
ReplyDeleteI am so excited for your visit with your dad. What a ride this has been. Going to lift up prayers for you!!!
I don't know. They can be real turds sometimes. You'd think we hadn't raised them right.
DeleteThanks for the prayers! I can't wait to see how it goes and then share with all of you who have been following the story.