It has been a while and I just wanted to share a really neat find. For about a year and half now I have this running list of things I want to do before I die.  I cannot imagine leaving this life without having done and experienced these things. I just wrote out my list…

2007 has been a pretty good year so come gather round for it’s time to bury the year.  We’ll all bring some food and enough chocolate to meet all of your desires,a bonfire,a band, some fireworks and of course let us eat shovel cake. We look forward to seeing all of you this New Year’s…

What a great day.  Zaina came home from college this morning.  We started cooking at eight a.m.  Ruth, susie, and I rolled about 160 grape leaves. Then everyone came home from school at noon.  We got pizza and more and more friends dropped by to help cook and say hello. Gloria and Kathy came in…

Well it is finally here ……a bakery that isn’t in a grocery store.  Sweet Celebrations opened this morning with wonderful coffee,pastries,muffins,cakes, and bagels. I went there after I dropped the kids at school. Susie called to tell me "Your pastry place is open." As she was calling I was inside getting a pumpkin muffin.  Great…

Thank you Gay and Lester for yet another fabulous Halloween.  Omar got a lot of candy.  I think he ate as much as he brought home. Miriam went out with the other high school kids and collected cans of food for the foodbanks.  The crosscreek neighborhood collected 280 cans of food.  That is about 5…

Greetings Friends, This is my new blog. So many of you have been asking what I’ve been up to ?  So I’ve created this blog so you can keep up with our comings and goings.  While I’m still constructing this site I’ve added a photo album of our Paradise Garden for you to look at. …