My Week

Tiffany complained that I don't update often enough. I'll try to do better, but no promises. BTW this is Lorraine again.

You already know we were in Florida this month. We've been thinking and speaking of my long-time friend Cheri who lives in the Orlando area with her husband, 5 kids, and menagerie. Cheri and I have been good friends since 1973. Yes we're old. We met the first day of 9th grade and have been friends ever since, even though years often pass between visits. My most recent visit with Cheri was last summer when she came here to bring her 2nd son to the M.T.C. Anyhow, Cheri called me on Tuesday because she had been thinking of me :-). Her oldest son was in Utah last week. We had a very fun conversation for an hour and 10 minutes. TGI unlimited cell phone time!

Today, I had lunch with another friend I hadn't visited with for 2 years. We met at a restaurant and talked long after we were done with our meals. We outlasted the "lunch" crowd and were the only ones there (that don't work there) by the time we separated. We talked about kids, church, books, work.....
How thankful I am for people who care about me, and enjoy things I enjoy, and are interesting and interested. I have all of that with my sweetheart of course, but I'm definitely a girly girl and need friend connections as well.

Look What My Mommy Can Do!

By the way this is Chelley...

I just made Mommy a Facebook! Now my Mommy can fit in. If you have a Facebook you should add her so she can have tons of friends and be Awesome!
Thanks A Ton~ Chelley G.

Home at Last!

So glad to finally be home. It was good to be with my Florida family, but I missed my home family, especially my honey.

Florida: I was glad to have some time with my"sister" Linda who was there from San Diego to be with Mom and Bill after he was put in hospice care. Here are the two of us in the family room.

After Bill passed from this life we gathered at mother's house for a celebration of our life with him.
On the couch are my neice Jessica, her dad - my brother Rich, and my sister Linda. In the mirror are me in the pink shirt and Colleen (brother Mike's wife)in the chair. We enjoyed good company, good food, and good music. Mother played Bill's jazz recordings.

When I got home, after unpacking and recovering a little, I made bread. I really do make it from scratch. My Florida family seemed to have a hard time picturing it so I decided to help....

This is the wheat that gets ground in the grinder

( the round white thing), then gets mixed with other stuff in the mixer - except for what jumps out onto me - for a long noisy time,

then gets put in the pans, baked and comes out like this.