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My hubby’s food delivery system

28 Sunday Jul 2013

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My sweet hubby surprised me this afternoon with a delicious smackeral of mashed potatoes and sausage, one of my favorite food combinations of all time. My hubby knew that I was tired and not feeling great so he surprised me with this small dose of delectable goodness, the salty pork sausage complimenting the creaminess of the mashed potatoes so nicely that it just melts in your mouth. My hubby takes care of me really well when he can and he knows what flavors and smell tempt my taste buds and nose so that I cannot even refuse if I wanted to, I am very lucky.

I love sausage. There are so many ways that sausage makes everything better; sausage and mashed potatoes, sausage and eggs over easy, sausage and sauerkraut, sausage and ratatouille, sausage and peppers and sausage and oysters. The sausage and oysters is a typical French combination, the saltiness and savory sausage goes so well with the brininess of the oysters, they even have festivals in France to celebrate this stellar combination.

Spending time together

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

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My hubby and I are spending all this week together; partly in Boston and in New York. His projects take him here and there and I follow. The babies, all three of them are at home, taking care of each other and making use of the pool because the entire northeast is under a heat wave advisory. This week we are seeing temperatures in the mid nineties and high humidity. We’ll be home Thursday afternoon, I can’t wait because I miss the babies and my house. I love being with my hubby, but it is difficult living out of a bag and knowing that there are things to be done at home, things to do for the pool and things to do in the garden.

It is fun however playing hooky away from home. My day is very quiet while my hubby is at work and I am alone reading, writing and walking where ever I find myself. I love walking in Boston and in New York, there is always something to see.

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I don’t know why I took these pictures, I just pointed my cell phone and clicked. There were plants, nice architecture and blue sky involved; all good things.

A romantic gesture

23 Sunday Jun 2013

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My hubby surprised me with these two beautiful rose buds on my car seat earlier today when we were going to our cousin’s high school graduation. I opened the car door, and there they were lying there in their perfection. My hubby is such a romantic. It will be 23 years and I think that I will keep him around for 23 years more.

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Here is a picture of our beautiful graduate and a picture of the baby girl, myself and our cousin Carly. The two young beauties; they are both so sweet and have really good heads on their shoulders. It is so much fun spending time with them, I get to bask in their youthful energy and ambition. We are very proud of both girls and we know that they will both do well in the future.
This weekend was a lot of fun for everyone.

Being taken care of and its importance

28 Tuesday May 2013

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The beautiful thing about marriage is that you have someone who feels that your happiness is as important as their own. Love has a magical way about it, your eyes are opened as to how your happiness is so closely tied to your partner’s happiness and when children arrive, you really learn how vulnerable your heart can become. Ask any parent to imagine their life without their child and you will see tears and fear in their eyes. Moreover ask any loving couple to imagine their life without their partner in life and you will get a similar reaction.

My hubby shows me how much my happiness and health matter to him everyday. Last night my hubby decided that we needed to get away together to Boston so that I may rest and this morning he suggested that a long soak in our room’s beautiful tub would be the very thing that would do me some good. He was right, the soaps are scented with lemon verbena, one of my favorite scents and the hot water did a lot of good to my bones and joints.

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Boston is one of my favorite places and being with my hubby is definitely one of many favorite things to do. This year will make 23 years of marriage, the exact amount of time that I had lived prior to being married, crazy to realize that this year marks the juncture between 23 years of single life and 23 years of married life. After this I will always be marred for longer than I was single.

My other half and laughter

22 Thursday Nov 2012

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  • You have three hundred words to justify the existence of your favorite person, place or thing. Failure to convince will result in it vanishing without a trace. Begin.
  • 300-Word Justification
  • My hubby is a one of a kind. He has the gift of the spoken word; he could sell snow and ice to the Inuit and they would love him for it. I am speaking pre-climate change, they would be especially thankful right now but that would fail to showcase how exceptionally talented my hubby is when it comes to selling anything. He sold me on the idea of marrying him on the first date. He made me laugh, now I know that I laugh easily, but he can really make me laugh, the deep down organic from the belly laugh. Whats more is that he loves doing it so much which makes it even more endearingly special. No one has ever made it their mission to make sure that I laugh every day and taken such pride in the fact that they can make me laugh.
    My hubby also makes it a point of making sure that he takes care of me with my health and my teeth, since he knows how much I dislike the doctors and the dentists. He prides himself on being the boss of me in that regard, otherwise he tells everyone who will listen that I am the boss in every other way and he just follows my direction. He also likes to shower me with presents, especially books too which I can only say hooray and thank you my husband because books are simply the best presents in the world. Books of any kind; cookbooks, historical books, science-fiction, biographies, any kind really, I am not picky.
    We also share the same interests; food, travel, t.v, movies, love of babies and dogs. He is definitely not boring, I am consistently entertained and kept on my toes with my hubby. It has been twenty-two years and it has gone by so incredibly fast, like the whirlwind that so aptly describes my hubby.

Monday’s can be fun

13 Tuesday Nov 2012

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Yesterday my hubby decided to work from home since Monday was a floating holiday. However, our baby girl had school and needed to be driven back to her campus so we decided to make an adventure out of the journey once we dropped her off in time for her first class.

My hubby had a meeting with a colleague located not too far from the baby girl’s school and he turned the meeting into a breakfast meeting at a lovely cafe, so while my hubby and his colleague were discussing work, I was busy eating two eggs over easy, sausage and rye toast with plenty of coffee.

Afterwards, after saying our goodbyes to the colleague, my hubby took me to a spectacular food speciality store located solely in the Boston area, Wegman’s. It was so well organized, well stocked, well laid and so pristine. Everything looked excitingly delicious. The produce section with its varieties of fresh mushrooms, the choices between broccoli, cauliflower and romanesco, a hybrid of broccoli and cauliflower, it is such a pretty vegetable and tastes exactly like a hybrid of the two. The meat section was outstanding, offering locally sourced cuts of meat and organic choices as well.

Cheese had its own showcase stocked with local cheeses from Vermont, Massachusetts and even Maine. We bought a tub of Fromage blanc made in Vermont for the kids to try, to see if we found something to tide them over until they could get back to France for the original petit suisses.

The adventure wasn’t over, a movie was in the works as we got closer to home. Since we had been out and about so early, the day was still young. That is how the idea of a movie came about and we had the same movie in mind, The Man with the Iron Fists.

It was great, I have always loved martial arts movies and this one was fantastic. It was presented by Quentin Tarantino and the director is a new one, the rapper RMZ, who did a bang up job. It was an homage to the old genre of martial arts movies and the choreography was exceptional. I grew up watching the old style movies featuring Bruce Lee and his contemporaries on Saturday afternoons on channel nine. The acting was great, the movie had Russell Crowe, Lucy Lui and other Asian actors that I knew by sight not by name.

If you enjoy martial arts movies, you will definitely enjoy this one. When we got back home, Jack got extra attention to make up for our absence and we settled down for a quiet night of t.v, Bones was on and then Castle, so it was a night of not to miss t.v.

Like I said, Monday’s can be fun.

The Sunday night getaway

06 Sunday May 2012

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My hubby and I have, I think, firmly established Sunday night as our getaway night. With both of the children grown and off doing their own things, do we really need to go off to Boston for private time? No, but regardless if it is not actually necessary to physically get away from Blandford, I’m happy that we have made the overnight trip a ritual. I drive out while my hubby does all his last minute finalization to all the documents, contracts and plans in the car so when we arrive we can relax, sit back watch t.v, do our IPads and figure out where we want to eat which around here isn’t that limited. I usually tend to choose sushi, but I never mind Mexican. When I said Mexican, I really mean Taco Bell. Downstairs in the lobby, they have Chinese takeout, it’s been awhile since we’ve had Chinese but I don’t think that I would try a new Chinese place here. Sushi probably will be on the menu tonight and if it isn’t, that isn’t a problem. We did come armed with snacks in case we were hungry during the ride. Right now we are both watching one of our favorite t.v shows, Once Upon A Time. Tonight is the second to last episode of the season and it is getting darker and more complex, I am so not looking forward to the cliffhanger because I know that it is going to be a doozy.
Immediately after Once Upon A Time, we have to switch over to HBO because it is Game of Thrones time. I find that Tyrion Lancaster is a very intriguing character amongst all those battling over the throne and the fantasy lover in me loves the mother of the dragons, she is going to have a huge role to play in the following season. Great t.v and alone time together what more could an old married couple ask for?

Who is the most patient person you know?

24 Monday Oct 2011

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children, marriage, patience, pets, postaday2011

C’est moi. I am the most patient person I know. Why do I think that, you ask. Well, since you are curious, I will tell you. Have I always been patient? Growing up, I had the capability to be patient, I don’t think that I had to make it a daily occurrence because growing up, I had really, only myself to think of and my chores to do. Life was mostly about school, part-time jobs, socializing and getting along with family and friends. I know that I did learn patience and waiting my turn during the summers in France, when we all shared on bathroom and the we, meant that there were at least ten of us.

I got married at 23 years old and had our son at 24 years old. That was when patience and a lot of it were required, was I always capable back then of expressing patience? I know that there were days when patience walked out of the apartment and stayed away for a few hours, luckily those days were fairly rare. I would be so tired and feel so alone that I would cry. Those days were mainly caused by sleep deprivation. My baby boy was a non-stop breast feeder, I didn’t sleep a solid nights sleep for at least 8 months. I was exhausted and stupid by the time he was nine months.

On a side note, I just came back from picking up my seventeen year old daughter from school this evening. I told her about today’s topic and asked her who she thought was the most patient person that she knew. She said “well, it certainly isn’t Papa, and it is definitely not you”. I said, calmly, “really, you don’t think that I am the most patient person” She said “what! you are not patient with me, Papa or Bob”. I said “well I started writing that I am the most patient person I know” and I left it at that. I didn’t get hurt or indignant. If the conversation had happened between my mother and myself, she would have said a few choice things to me, along the vein that she deserved a medal for putting up with me as a teenager. I let it go with my daughter, I don’t know what my son would say, I take that back, I do know because I called him for research purposes and he said that I am the most patient person he knows. Back to my daughter, I can let it go because she has the right to her opinion, and she is probably thinking of the times when I do get exasperated after asking her at least 4 or 5 times to do something and I get a retort instead.

Where was I? Oh, yes the early days of parenthood. Instead of giving you the step by step inaugural pathway to patience, I’ll give you my ideas of why it grew through the years. I think that I have become more patient because I don’t see or feel the need to have everything exactly the way I want it to be. I have gotten very accommodating over the years and it has been a blessing. When I find myself getting annoyed by something small, I try to step back and ask myself “is it really worth it?” More often than not, that question is quickly answered no and I can let whatever go. It is liberating and makes life easier.

I’ve noticed that patience sometimes has a negative connotation to it. The person who has it is considered either good and virtuous or put upon. However, that, in regards to human relationships, means that the other half of the relationship, the other person probably isn’t so very good, they might be a handful or high maintenance. When it comes to taking care of pets, than the person who is patient, is considered a good pet owner no matter how the pet behaves because pets are given more leeway than humans. The same can be determined for gardening, taking care of the home, cooking, many of these tasks require patience and time to be done correctly and that is easily seen as something to aspire to or at least admire.

It is when you throw people in the mix that feelings can get hurt. As in the example of my daughter, I could have lashed out because my feelings were hurt that she doesn’t think of me as a patient person. If I had, well maybe she would have been right. As I am still thinking if I have been a little impatient with her, it isn’t that I am losing my patience, I get nervous that she is not doing certain little things independently, such as making herself toast in the morning, or making herself lunch for school or getting herself something to eat after school. I do all these things for her but when I ask her if she can do it on occasion, she will start to complain and complain. So when I do lose my patience and I have explained it to my daughter, it is coming from a place of caring and worrying that I am not doing my job to make her as independent as she can be for a 17-year-old. There are times when that explanation isn’t good enough for my daughter and I try to be sensitive to her feelings and everything she is going through as a teenager.

So there you have it, at the very least after writing my thoughts on the subject, this topic will keep me and my patience in the forefront of my thoughts for the next few days.

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