Musings of a Middle-Aged Mom
Thursday, May 29, 2025
The Wedding and Reception
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Hodgepodge
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I think there were either 14 or 16 around the table on this night! Have I told y'all how much I love the song, "Crowded Table"? You can listen here. |
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Delaware Is A Pretty State!
Day Three - Sunday morning! When Susie and Bob lived in Delaware, Mark never had more than two weeks of vacation at most (long story), so we never had the chance to visit. This trip was our first time in the state, and we took full advantage by spending some time exploring the countryside in our rental car.
Delaware truly surprised us with its beauty—at least the area where we were staying! Just one turn off the main road could lead you down a quiet, idyllic street, shaded by a canopy of trees like the one in the photo below.
The following is from SAH Archipedia and the article was
written by W. Barksdale Maynard.
For many years following the arrival of the utopian-minded
Pierre Samuel du Pont to America, the du Pont family held land in a kind of
communistic arrangement. But “Boss Henry” du Pont broke with tradition, seizing
for himself huge tracts out of the common holdings, to the dismay of some of
his kin. As if forever to mark the landscape as his own, he (and later his son,
Colonel Henry A. du Pont) had Italian masons build extensive stone fences
around their far-flung estate, using rock from Brandywine Granite Quarry which
the family partly controlled. The walls at today's Brandywine Creek State Park
are good examples—solidly built and with capstones so level on the top that one
can easily walk on them. The park property was bought by landscape architect
Robert Wheelwright in 1951 and auctioned after his death, at which time
developers proposed a housing tract for the 433 acres. Concerned citizens
pushed the reluctant State Park Commission to buy the property instead, and
today it is cherished open space.
Monday, May 26, 2025
The Rehearsal Dinner
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Sunday Stealing
I am joining up with Sunday Stealing - information and questions pasted below:
Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of
questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we
will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers
to all of us thieves!
These questions were inspired by a blogger named Becca. Back
in 2007, Becca was asked to reveal 8 interesting things about herself. We're
turning her answers into questions to learn a little more about YOU.
8 Questions
1. What habit do you wish you could break? I have several I wish I could break. I HATE that I sometimes respond quickly with a snarky answer . . .I wish I would always remember to pause and think before speaking. I need to break the habit of eating a snack after dinner. Actually, I probably should give up all in between meal snacking. I'm sure there are plenty of other habits I wish I could break.
2. Where is your favorite vacation spot? I love to travel all over the world BUT I do love Orange Beach on the Alabama gulf coast.
3. How many years of formal education have you completed? As of this month, I have my AA. I start working on my BA June 2. I cannot even begin to tell you how amazing it feels to type those words. At 66 years old (almost 67), I have a college degree. I am the first in my birth family to have any kind of college degree.
4. Have you ever had a job that required you be certified or licensed? I don't think so. I worked for South Central Bell and AT&T for 11 years. I've been on a church staff for the last 21 years. My husband is a CPA and before he retired, he had to take continuing ed every year to keep his certification.
5. Do you enjoy camping? Nope. My idea of camping is a "cheaper" hotel room.
6. Tell us about a time you got away with something. I have no idea.
7. Where have you lived the longest, and what do/did you like best about it? I've lived in Alabama my whole life. We lived in our last house for 22 years. We've been in this house for 11 years in June. I love our home and our neighborhood.
8. When you were a kid, were more of your playmates boys or girls? I had lots of girl and guy friends. At one point we had 17 kids on our street and we all played together.
Thank you for playing! Please come back next week.
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Day Two - Saturday - Our Family Weekend Away
Friday, May 23, 2025
Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
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photo is from their website |
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Mark, Paul (not the groom, but Grace's fiance, and Thomas) |