A Mother's Day Hodgepodge

 

Here I am doing another hodgepodge which is brought to you by Joyce over at http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/

Here are this week’s questions.

Let's compare this May to last May. What's changed? What remains very much the same? 

I can’t think of anything that has change.

What's something you may do this month? 

I can’t think of anything, other then going to the cemetery to leave a Mother’s Day card for mum.

Mother's Day is approaching (in the US of A)...in what way(s) are you like your mother? 

How am I like my mum; well, my siblings say that I am not one to judge and I am a loving and giving person like mum I am supportive like mum and give great hugs like mum.

Did you have a favourite book as a child? What was it and why was it a favourited. 

Yeah, as a child I loved the Trixie Beldon books can’t remember who wrote them but read the over and over.

Are you more of a tortoise or a hare? Explain. 

Tortoise I am one to take things slow and steady, no rushing into things for me.

Insert your own random thought here. 

I feel most of us will connect more with one child then others, I have three daughters, and everyone think my favourite is the youngest daughter, this is because she is the one most like me thus the one, I connect most with.  Our second daughter is a small, female version of her father and our precious first born is a mix of both her dad and me.  We both wanted our first born, Tim wanted our second daughter and had to convince me to have another baby, and I had to talk him into having our third daughter.

 

Getting to know me

 

Here are this week’s getting to know me questions and my answers. These questions are set by Kymber over at https://booomcha.com/

This week’s questions.

Shopping online or shopping in-store?

Science fiction or mystery?

Movie adaptations or books?

Here are my answers.

I like both but do my groceries online and I like going through Temu or Shein online.

I prefer mystery although I watched a lot of Star Trek

Books always, the movie adaptations are never as good as the book in my opinion.

Tuesday's Four

Welcome back to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4.   

This week let's talk about home or the house in which you grew up.   

What do you think of this picture of the staircase. Do you like how it looks?  Does it say "home" to you?

Yeah, I like the look of it, and it does say home to me.

Would you like something that looks like this?

Yeah, when I was younger, I would have liked it, not now when getting upstairs is hard.

Did you love growing up in your family home? Could you live in a house like that today?

Oh yeah, I loved two of the four houses I lived in growing up, I would love to live in the last house, but my parents rented and after they passed away the house was sold.

 What did your bedroom look like when you were a teen?

I had a small bedroom with posters all over the walls, don’t ask me who of as I can’t remember.

 What kind of vibes or atmosphere do you like to foster in your home today?  Sophisticated, homey?

Definitely homy I live in a home not a house, this something my paternal grandfather would say about my parents’ home, which is why he liked staying there.  On one occasion after being released from hospital he went to stay with his daughter and her family, he had only been there 3 days when my parents went over to see him and have lunch. When it was time for mum & dad to leave, they found pop with his suitcase packed waiting next to the door ready to leave with them.  After some discussion he did leave with them coming back to our home to finish recovering, he stayed 2 months because he liked being there, he told mum & dad that my aunts house was always clean and tidy and the children were quiet, unlike our home which was somewhat messy and us kids somewhat loud

 

Meeting Tim

 

Way back in 1983, I decided on a whim to join an introduction agency also called a dating agency. This is how I meet Tim; he rang on the 7th June he rang and asked me out, he picked me up at 7pm on the 9th June.

So, we meet in my parents’ lounge room, our first date saw us going to Pizza Hut, then into Newcastle to the night club “Fanny’s”. I don’t remember much about that night.

What I do remember is that when he took me home, he told me he was going away to see a mate for the weekend and asked me to go with him, but I said no, as we had only just meet. He said he would ring me when he got back, then he left without kissing me.

I was worried I wouldn’t see him again, but he rang me on the Tuesday, neither of can remember what we did on our second date.

By September that year Tim had was arranging our Engagement party, he told me one day that he had invited some people to our engagement party, and I said you haven’t even asked me, he smiled and said but you will.

Our engagement party was held in November and doubled as my 21^st birthday party.

First May Hodgepodge

 

Here I am doing another hodgepodge which is brought to you by Joyce over at http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/

Here are this week’s questions.

My very first edition of The Wednesday Hodgepodge was published on November 10, 2010 (linked here if you're curious). Tell us something about your life from that era.

Back then I was helping take care of my young grandsons a few days a week and loving it

 What's a song you love that relates to time in some way? 

18 till I die by Bryan Adams

May is nearly upon us. When did you last need to yell 'MAY DAY-MAY DAY!!'? 

Can’t remember ever yelling it

How do you feel about food trucks? Is this a dining experience you enjoy?  Do you have a favourite What's something you've ordered from a food truck? 

Don’t see food trucks around here

We're bidding farewell to April...what are three adjectives you might use to describe the month you're leaving behind. 

Mournful, Heartbroken, Sorrowful

Insert your own random thought here. 

When faced with a sad event that happens every year, like the anniversary of the death of a loved one, allow yourself to feel the sadness for a brief period, then find something to do to lighten your mood and make you laugh.

Getting to know me

 

Here are this week’s getting to know me questions and my answers. These questions are set by Kymber over at https://booomcha.com/

If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be and why?

What is one thing you wish you knew more about?

How do you handle failure?

Here are my answers.

An orange, simply because I really like oranges

History of course

By accepting that I stuffed up and move on and not dwell on it

A Hodgepodge Picnic

 

The Hodgepodge lands on National Picnic Day...will you celebrate? Do you enjoy picnics? Dining out of doors picnic or otherwise? What are three or four things I'd find in your picnic basket? 

I do not remember the last time I went on a picnic; it was a really long time ago and I have never really enjoyed eating outside. Things you would find in my picnic basket, salt & pepper, tomato & BBQ sauce, plates & cutlery.

A time recently where you felt 'antsy'? 

I can’t remember

As the saying goes...'when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.'  Do you like lemonade? When did you recently need to make lemonade out of lemons, speaking figuratively?

Never made lemonade not even figuratively, because when life gives me lemons, I figuratively pick them up and throw them at stuff.

Recently five 'celebrities' made a brief (ll minute) foray into space aboard Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket. Did you hear about this? Your thoughts? If money were no object is this something you'd like to do someday? 

Yes, I heard about this and thought what a waste of money, so no not something I would do.

Favorite thing about the 'space' you're sitting in right now? 

Sitting here I can see the tv, out the front door, photos on the walls and feel the cool breeze

Insert your own random thought here.

In order to have a happy life you need a positive outlook more then a negative one, when you always look for the negative it is harder to find joy in anything. I am a positive person, and I am happy far more then I am sad.