Easter with a TWIST! And some other chit chat!

As you can see by my photo up top there I have been busy sewing and crafting! Been having a great time! Come on over to my other blog http://applecreekcottage.blogspot.com and see the challenge I gave myself. I made the Easter basket with a twist and a pretty little bag! See the cute bag in the photo below.

I hope you all are having a wonderful Monday and...

Happy Martain Luther King day! We have come a long way in this country! Watching the shows about happenings of the 1960's really takes me back. It is so strange and makes me feel old. I always use these times as an opportunity to talk to my kids about how grateful they should be for what they have. And I explain how different the world was.

I am so lucky, no blessed to have such great kids.

Sometimes I give them a Mommy history lesson, as I call them.

I remind them of all the conveniences they get to enjoy that we did not have when we were young. Sometimes all this remembering makes me feel so old!

In the "Olden days" if we were out and wanted to call home we had to drop a dime in the nearest payphone. There were no cell phones. If I needed to go somewhere I rode my bike! And we lived in the foothills of Los Angeles-whew those hills were killer on a bike!

We didn't always have remote controls either-crap we had to actually get up off off our butts to change the TV channel.

One of 13 channels-now we have over a hundred!

Remember when the game for your TV came out it was called "Pong."

I do and our family got it-we thought it was so cool!

If we got bored we went outside and played! Right about now my kids would start to joke around with me and say something like "Yes Mom and you had to walk ten miles to school in the rain with no shoes-we know!" LoL! Stinkers! No actually it was about four miles, and if I could have gotten away with being barefoot I would have! LOL!

I listen to mostly but not exclusively music from the 60's and 70's. My kids have grown up with that and they love it. It is funny how they see the world sometimes. Because they often say how lucky my husband and I were to grow up at that time. How cool the style of the clothes were, the awesome music and all. Oh LoL!

I try to teach them about how young in many ways our country really was. The terrible growing pains that our country went through to get where we are today. About the riots, assassinations, predigest, protests, the draft, and wars that I remember. I remember feeling very scared when I was young-worried about our country.

I can remember sitting in the auditorium in elementary school watching TV and seeing the first man on the moon, watching the rockets take off and the landings in the ocean. Do any of you remember that? How cool is that anyways?!?!? And when our astronauts were in trouble our nation came together and we prayed together. That's right we PRAYED as a nation and it was okay! And our prayers were answered!

I remember saying the pledge of allegiance at the start of everyday in elementary school-can't do that everywhere anymore.

Now we have people trying to take away what our very country was built upon-Trust in God out of everything. It has gotten way out of hand!

When certain songs come on I teach my kids the background the reason the song was written.

That there is a little history lesson often times in some of those "old songs".

And my kids get it-that's the really cool part-they really get it!

Folks complain about our great nation-I think they have forgotten just how far we have come in a very short time really. We have so much to be grateful for! Count your blessings folks-we live in I believe the greatest nation in the world! It is the promised land!!!

Remember what JFK said " Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what YOU can do for your country!"

I love that! As we welcome in this new president in a couple of days, who I will just say I did not vote for, lets not think or expect him to be the Savior to our nation. It takes more then just a mere man to run this great country~Remember what JFK said and get busy!

Oh how I could go on and on-but I won't!

I wouldn't want to offend anyone after all.

I just wanted to share some of my feelings.

Speaking of feeling old...

When my daughter was about four maybe five she asked me the funniest question. She said "Mommy did you ever eat dinosaur meat, and did it taste good?" What??? I had to hold back the laughing and save it for later when I told my husband! It was so tempting to just go along with that one, because she was serious, and I could have told her "Oh yea honey and it was sooo yummy too!" But I didn't-don't know why. I do wish I was as young as I was when she asked that question~ I feel like I ate dinosaur meat! LOL! Isn't life just grand?

Drop me a comment and tell me something fun and or exciting that you have been up to!

I always love hearing from all of you!!! Until then...

Remember: You can either let life happen or you can make it happen! So go get em kids!

Groovy Hugs~Tam!