Good morning Quackers! Just catching up.
@Kirby I love your message to
@Snowysmom, so beautiful!
Likewise,
@Judique, I think yours is a good message for
@lynxstch, too.
Personally I like the grey
but I hope they can work it out.
I think it’s what looks best with the color of the house.
@AuntieMe3, Dolly is looking adorable and right at home!
@bobbiwoz I’ve been thinking of you being at WDW and hoping you were having a good time. Sounds like some frustrations but hopefully the fun parts will overshadow those. Judique had good advice and I like the way she put it about buying in large part for the “home” experience. I hope they agree. Many say it’s good to address it before you leave.
@flyingdumbo127 Praying your father stays safe in some of these areas he ventures into. I just bought some Skechers for myself, too, but
Amazon delivered them yesterday! I’d been looking for a blue mule sneaker without white bottoms and they’re hard to find, so I compromised and got a black pair with bold blue stitching that I think (hope) will do the trick. Yesterday I realized I needed some grey sandals (flip flop type) so I will have to look for some of those on Amazon. I find I have better luck finding what I want online rather than running around to different stores with no luck.
@Snowysmom I really love what your therapist said. It’s so true. I think that most of us are probably all guilty of envisioning our anxieties about things. What I envision for you is that once you are settled - and I mean, really settled - you will, as said above, be meeting new people and forming new relationships and I highly doubt that you will spend the rest of your life lonely. As I’ve said to you before, I feel that the early loss of your mother has a lot to do with how you feel about things now, those primary relationships like a mother and husband are so crucial to how we feel about things, it’s devastating to lose them. But you WILL do ok, I can just tell by how you have tackled things head on since Chris’s loss and you will continue to do that, one day at a time. You have so much love around you. It dawned on me as I was reading today that I think some affirmations would be nice for you, like, something positive you read every day about yourself. I’ve seen them in calendars and Apps, things like that. Maybe you could read one every day as you have your coffee and go for your walk. I will look around to see what I can find for you. I see a lot on Instagram, and I am constantly sending them to my kids, and to friends who need them. I so appreciate the people who write these things, and cards, etc. So glad you will be done with the condo now. Mission accomplished!
Oh, and yes, I know LaCasia’s! Thanks for the compliments on the cannolis, and that was quite a compliment, as theirs are so good, too! I watched DH make them and he enjoyed it, he grew up in a family bakery, as well! They really aren’t overly difficult to make but it is a process getting the excess liquid out of the ricotta cheese so they’re not runny.
@PollyannaMom I think it’s so great that you take your classes and have so many interests!
@dazedx3 I hope you are feeling better. Please check in now and then, as we care.
Also thinking of all of our friends who we haven’t seen in a while - B&B, Carole, Tina, frog, Michelle, and others.
Will put my own thoughts in another post as this one’s already long!
Her head was on the pillow before DD walked in to take the picture. 
You please take care and stay warm. I'm sitting on the 
at the moment with my 
print blanket. I'll be putting on my nightshirt shortly. Truly God Bless Dolly
What a precious pup. Thank you and Dolly for the loving care you give each other. Enjoy your dinner tonight and with your friends tomorrow.
and trees/garden 
are beyond well tended to! My grandma was an immaculate person even later in life. We didn't often have a cleaning lady come in due to cost. I remember the few times we did, grandma would clean our house before she came. My beloved granfma was such a loving feisty, and go getter much like dear you
go quickly and easily!
stops of another Ralph's and 99 Cent Only Store. Kirby and Footballmouse, Ralphs this week has Campbell's soups for 99 Cents! Dad was able to get us our Chicken Broth along with a couple other flavors for himself. He'll look at our Ralphs for additional cans when he's there tomorrow. I truly pray he will get himself some comfortable new 
at Skechers, that's where he should be at right now. He sure needs new shoes. A pandemic positive is my own sneakers have lasted the last 3 years since they get limited wear. Of course, God willing one day I will be able to get out again.
Kirby, what an absolutely beautiful message to Snowysmom! Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us, too. I couldn't agree with you more! I likewise pray that Carol along with your precious grandkids sooner than later are finally able to be at a much more positive and all-around happier place in life. You know how sorry I am for the ongoing custody mess. It also is always pause to thank you for how much love and support you give to those kiddos and Carol, too, of course. They are all graced extra by God to have you by their side! Your Quacker family sure is blessed to have you in our lives
) I actually had one when my twins were little and I was working four long shifts a week. She was my friend so she didn’t charge much, and it was so nice to come home to a clean house! I wouldn’t be able to afford it today, though - my friend is retired! And I have to save so I can retire myself! Then I won’t mind cleaning, it’s something I actually enjoy. 
I can’t do supermarket cakes, but there is a bakery near me that I occasionally pick one up if DH doesn’t have time to make one. At one time we had a small cake business from home before we had kids. He made some nice wedding and other occasion cakes. I often designed them and he executed. (Not unlike how we cook today!) DH’s father would sometimes accompany him to wedding venues to help set it up, etc. Over the years with cakes from a business he worked for it could get tough. He’d get a call that the kitchen people left the cake too close to the oven and it melted 
he’d have to go to try to fix it on his way home! He works with different foods now but in retirement he’ll probably do some bakery consulting. Most of the old time bakers have retired and it’s hard finding people who know all the old skills today. (Even in culinary school he found himself showing the professors how to make things.) He consulted with one business near us where a young guy had bought this bakery and didn’t even know how to make something simple like brownies! A lot of newer bakeries today specialize in one thing like muffins or cookies. People ask if he bakes a lot at home, but he really doesn’t - just for special occasions. I do leave him a pile of brown bananas on a weekend and he’ll whip up some banana breads, but that’s about it. It’s like anything else, the last thing you want to do when you get home from work is more work!
