Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

...and since it's still not quite over, I don't doubt that there are still a few surprises waiting around the corner. I must admit, when we came into this year, all I was really expecting was my new baby granddaughter who was due in March, right around her sister's first birthday. Soooo, little Cutie Patootie made us wait an entire week for her arrival, which pretty much means that we have been suckered into being at her whim probably for the rest of our lives. All she has to do is bat those baby browns, turn up the side of her mouth ever so slightly and I'm giving away the farm. Sis has that ability, too, but she doesn't have it quite down pat as the Little One. I'm doomed to be a pauper. Of course, the first statement is just a bit misleading, because as some of you may know, we were also fostering a soldier's dog until we could get her home to Korea. With a lot of help from friends and United Airlines, Angel got home to her family in February. That wa...

Apparently, I've been slacking. So sue me. =o) Seriously, its been a busy month around here. Since my last post, I suppose that I've been a little shocked and dismayed at the events of November 6, but I'm over it now. I did manage to go into a two and a half week flare up, complete with flu symptoms that lasted a good four days, but, again, I'm over that as well. Hopefully, this post finds all of y'all happy, healthy and full of stuffing, the bread kind. Personally I had two kinds, bread and corn bread and I must say that they were purely yummy. Chris, Andrea and I went to El Paso for Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with his recently widowed mom. This was the first real holiday without PopPop...I know that his presence was missed. It was strange not having him there, but it felt even more odd to not have my Punky and her family there, even if she hasn't been home for at least two years for the holidays. I mean, everyone else was there, for her to not be the...