EGGS, EGGS and more EGGS

It's that time of year... Egg season (and wabbit season). How many ways can you eat eggs? I think one day I'm going to sit down and count. I love eggs, all kinds. Everywhere you look there are eggs, chocolate, hard boiled, colored, hand painted, paper, plastic, ect. When I see all the colored eggs it makes me smile. I think of all the Easter eggs I have dyed for my kids over the years. The look on their faces when they could go and find them, priceless. I think we need to have a giant egg hunt for adults. I always enjoyed hunting for the eggs and I know the kid in me now would be so happy to go on an Easter egg hunt. I keep telling my husband and kids, wouldn't it be cool to have chickens and a chicken coop out back, then we could have eggs anytime we want. Unfortunately they aren't buying it. I don't think my development would allow it anyway :(  As many eggs as we go through in a week, and how high the prices are getting in the stores having our own chickens would be so worth it. Back to eggs because today is the letter E and chicken does not start with E,(but it does have an E in it). Sunday is Easter and even though my kids are a little older I still dye eggs for them and they go out and find them and some help the younger ones to find the hard to find ones. I love Easter and what it means to my family. Not just the Easter bunny, eggs and candy, but the traditions that remind us of why we celebrate it. I am grateful for The Atonement and The Resurrection and the importance of it in my life.   I am so happy that I am sealed to my family for all time and Eternity (oh look another E word). I love you guys. Happy Easter!

Disney

I am a big fan of everything Disney. I am not as obsessed as some but I do love it. There have been alot of happy memories for me through Disney. From the time Walt Disney World opened when I was a kid I  have gone tons of times. I have been there with many family members and friends over the years. There have been many changes since I was kid but the feeling was always the same. It was the one place on earth I felt safe, happy and inspired. I wanted to draw and paint cells for them when I was a teenager. When I got married we would go as a family to Disney and my kids and myself knew every song and every word to every Disney movie that was out. When driving to Florida we would listen to Disney movie music and all would sing along. My kids would even act out the movie as they watched it. Many special times my husband, my kids and I have had there. As they have gotten older a few of my kids do not like Disney (hard to believe I know). And with money tight we can't go to often. But the memories are there of fun, happy times before they started to grow up. We still sing the songs and say the lines from the movies from time to time and make new memories that way. No matter what I know when we are at the Magic Kingdom we are together as a family with no outside distractions. It is just us and a plan to be together and enjoy that moment at that time because at anytime it could be gone. So thank you Walter A. Disney for making a place my family can be together, eat, have fun, dream and make lasting memories.

C is for Cookie..... NOT

In my house C is not for cookie. It is totally for CHOCOLATE. I love chocolate, every kind. Hot chocolate, chocolate covered potato chips, chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate cake, chocolate fudge pops, chocolate pretzels, well you get the picture. I could go on forever about chocolate things I love forever. I'm just realizing I have a lot of addictions. Chocolate is yet another. But one of my all time favorites is Hershey Kisses. For Christmas a few years ago my kids gave me the best present EVER. It is a Hershey Kiss shaped cookie jar that I always store Hershey Kisses in. My obsession runs deep. My husband one year for my birthday took me on a bus trip to NYC to see Phantom of the Opera. We walked around the city before the show started. What did my wandering eyes see but the Hershey store. Well you know I had to go in and take pictures. I have been to Hershey Pennsylvania many times but had no clue there was a store in NYC. We took pictures and of course bought Hershey kisses and my husband even bought me a charm bracelet with a Hershey kiss on it to remind me of our day together. My youngest son Nash who is Autistic realized one day that Hershey kisses stop hiccups. So whenever we have hiccups at our house we eat one, ok maybe two. He also shares my deep love of chocolate. The smell of chocolate and hyacinths together always remind me of Easter. It's not Easter at my house until I smell that. It just bring back happy memories to me. So in looking back over the years I can honestly say that Chocolate was usually present when I was happy. Chocolate just make me happy. I think everyone should eat chocolate, then maybe we would have a happier world.

Birds.......... Angry Birds of course

Ok so yesterday I started the A to Z blog. Yesterday was A today is B. The kids told me I should do Angry Birds so I told them I would do it today as Birds for B. Well what can I say. My name is Lori and I am an Angry Bird addict. It's been about 1 day since I last played Angry Birds. My daughter bought me a shirt for Christmas that says "I Am A Nerd For Angry Birds". I have played both levels of RIO and am waiting for May to come for the next level to play and beat it. I have played all the season ones and just keep playing them over and over again. We do not have MAC s or Iphones but I do play it on my phone. I would love to have an Ipad to play it on cause as I get older it is harder to see those tiny birds. I am not the only person out there that is an addict to this game. There are many of us and well maybe we all really do need a support group for our habit. I mean come on they even made a movie about it. How cool is that? If you check out the internet Angry Birds are everywhere. Stuffed animals, clothing, hair bows, cakes, movies, accessories you name it. My niece even took her brothers stuffed Angry Bird toys and legos, lincoln logs and tinker toys to build her brothers a 3-D version for them to play. It looks so cool. Go and check it out at htttp://homevestures.blogspot.com. Look for the Angry Birds post. She has pictures of what she made. It's so  cool. Just for fun type in Angry Birds in your search engine and see all of the creative things you will find. It is amazing at all the cool ideas people come up with. Check it out and join our vast group of addicts.  So yes ....... My name is Lori and I am an Angry Birds addict.

American Dream Then and Now

Once upon a time the American Dream was simple and valuable. Young men and women would graduate from school, get a steady job, get married, buy a house, raise a family and enjoy life. Life was not easy for everyone, but there were values and self worth. They survived wars, sicknesses, the Great Depression, and many other trials. That dream wasn't easy to achieve but people worked hard and tried. When did the American Dream change so drastically? Today everyone thinks they are entitled to everything without hard work. They sue people for things like spilling hot coffee on their lap that is clearly their own fault. Today's American Dream is to just slide by school, party if you go to college, have sex and not raise your family and lastly to be handed money without working for it. There are no values. People have tv shows and make speaking appearances for large amounts of money. Kids idolize these people who have not done anything great but to get on a reality show. This is what the young men and women of today want. What has happened to us? Now there are still young men and women who want to work hard and strive to make their dreams come true. I for one would like to say thank you for not wanting the world to hand you your dream. Life is not easy but it will be worth it but you will always have to work for it. I know because I AM LIVING MY DREAM.