Wednesday Hodgepodge

Thanks again to Joyce for the Wednesday Hodgepodge questions. Visit her blog and copy and paste the questions and your answers in your own blog and then link up with everyone else!!

1. When is the last time you experienced nostalgia? 

My mother-in-law has one of those photo frames where the family can send pictures to her. Sometimes when I’m sitting there and those pictures flash up on the screen, I experience nostalgia. I think of those times when my children were younger and I think of the fun we had. For a few moments, I wish we could go back to those days . . .and then I remember how hard it was with twin babies!! Some of the pictures are when our kids were in high school and college. Even though we had lots of drama, I loved those times when all of those young adults would sit around our table and laugh and talk. I guess what I'm saying is that I am sometimes overcome with nostalgia when looking at pictures!

 2. September 29th is National Coffee Day. Do we need this? Ha! So are you a coffee drinker? If so how many cups per day, and tell us how you like it. Is there a recipe you enjoy that calls for coffee as one of the ingredients? 

This week has been full of National days – daughter day, son day, coffee day! Hubs loves coffee! I don’t drink it. Now . . . if there was a National Diet Pepsi day, I would be all over it! I drink way too many of those because I love them!! We do have a couple of recipes -- We have some rubs that have coffee in them that we put on meat for the smoker. I also have a killer coffee punch recipe that has chocolate ice cream in it. I’ve made it for several morning parties such as bridal showers or baby showers. It is delicious and decadent. Maybe I’m feeling nostalgic as I think of that coffee punch!

 3. Do you find praise or criticism to be more motivating? Explain. 

Praise all the way! I’m a number 1 on the Enneagram and I am my own worst critic. I have a constant voice in my head telling me all the things I have done wrong! I sometimes have a hard time believing praise BUT I do love for someone to tell me I’ve done a good job at something. Sometimes I desperately need praise. That sounds so bad as I type it!!!

 4.  What's a television series you keep coming back to and re-watching? Since there are no new shows right now . . .we have been watching old series. We watched the entire series of Chuck during the pandemic. We didn’t watch it the first time around. We watch old Friends episodes sometimes and old Seinfield episodes. My mother-in-law watches old Gunsmoke reruns!!! I’m embarrassed to tell you what we are watching now – it is quite ridiculous! 

 5. As the month of September draws to a close give us three words to describe your mood. Happy for cooler days. Hopeful that they will find a vaccine for Covid soon so we can return to family and friend gatherings. Excited because our church is opening back up for limited number in person inside worship.

 6. Insert your own random thought here. I scheduled an appointment with a friend who has a side photography business. She is going to come and take pictures of us with our kids and grandkids in November. Mark and I were gifted a mini session with another local photographer (who is awesome, too) several years ago and had pictures taken with our first granddaughter. I’m looking forward to having pictures with both girls . . and of course, with our kids, too!!