I Love My Mom

I got to speak with my mom today!  I love talking to her so much.  We are the best of friends.  I treasure every moment I get with her.  Hearing her laughter warms my soul.  I am here in Sacramento, California, and she is all the way across the country in Goldsboro, Maryland.  Being so far away is very hard.  I miss her so much.  She is the best mom in the world.  I am so blessed.  Right now Matthew is speaking with her.  They have a special relationship.  He is the first grandchild.  I call him the golden child.  Some of the things he says to her can really curl my hair.  But she just takes him as he is and he is so comfortable with their relationship, it is precious to see.  Mom always sends him cards throughout the year ... all the holidays.  There is also a little gift in those cards that he gets so happy over.  She had said that when he was eighteen they would stop coming.  He is now 27 and is still getting those cards.  Funny.

Pam and I put together a stock with pork drippings and smoked turkey wing.  We are soaking a package of pinto beans in water.  Once the stock is ready, we'll put the beans in and cut some vegetables to go along with it.  I am so looking forward to it.  The navy beans we had this week showed us their benefits.  They were low in calories and HIGH in fiber.  They tasted sooo good and my body was very happy to receive them.  We are already planning next week's offerings.  We're going to make kidney beans and have chili!!  Yeehaw!!

I have been reading the Chronicles of Narnia.   Pam's co-worker was giving her mother's collection of books away (she'd already tried a yard sale).  Pam got three boxes of books!!  One was a boxed set of the Chronicles of Narnia.  I hadn't done a lot of reading lately, but these books seemed small enough to tackle.  I am in the middle of the fourth book now (Prince Caspian).  I cannot believe how quickly I have been devouring these books.  Wow!  Very enjoyable.

Matthew came home from work on Friday, furious.  Apparently his supervisor was fired.  Matthew was adamant that there was no real reason for the event.  He was so angry, he said that he was going to start looking for work as a security guard as soon as his guard card gets here.  Then he asked if anyone had checked the mail that day.  We hadn't, so he went out to do it.  When he came back in, he had the envelope from BSIS (the guard card)!!  Whaddya know?  I guess in order to get what you need from the snail mail all you have to do is be angry enough to spit nails and you'll get it!  At least that is the lesson I got from that situation.  What?  Are you saying I got it wrong?  Well it won't be the first time.  (Still think I might try that out the next time I'm looking for important mail.)

We are probably going to take a nap around 6pm and then try to stay up all night.  Got to get our days and nights turned around for one more week.  Pam is working the graveyard shift at J&J ResCare for one more week.  She is also going to school this week so her schedule is jam packed.  Ugh!!  At least it won't be for the whole semester, thank goodness!!  My classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but they are online.  Yay!!  So we are college students now ... girls gone mild!!  Tee hee!  I am actually pretty excited about the prospect of going to school.  I think I get that from my mom as well.  She always was going to classes at the senior center.  The one thing that disappoints her about the senior center she's going to now, is the lack of classes.  Apparently you have to have 10 members who are willing to sign up and attend and they haven't had that yet.  I told mom to get familiar with the center and the seniors and drum up some folks who are willing to participate.  She has the ability to do it.  She just kind of laughed, but said that is what she was thinking.  Great minds think alike, I always say.