Monday, April 21, 2025

Happy Easter, A Day Late


Yup, a day late and a dollar short. 😏 
It's just the three of us now 😞  I've been struggling to not think about us all not being together so I'm not going to go there. We had ham, cheesy hashbrown casserole, green bean casserole, candied yams, dinner rolls. My husband cooks for Easter, and other holidays. And I do the desserts/extras.
My husband said he wanted pineapple upside down cake for dessert this year, so I made that. This is the recipe I used. I forgot to upload the picture; but I made pickled eggs, too. 
I don't know if I ever posted a picture of my Easter salt and pepper shakers I got this year. And some Easter napkins I got at Meijers (to make cards with actually, not for Easter dinner. 😝 But I figured I would use them.)
I have had this picture waiting to hang it in the kitchen (to try and cover all the holes in that wall ugh.. It didn't even cover it all..) Anyway. The "artwork" (?) is a dirty dishes poem I think I've posted about before:
"Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell; while others may go hungry, we're eating very well. With home health and happiness, I shouldn't want to fuss. And by the stack of evidence God's been very good to us."
I wrote this poem to my husbands' late aunt, years ago. And she printed it out and drew the dirty dishes and leaves and everything on it and sent it to me. It was in a protective sleeve. Well, after moving 800 times it was getting ruined. I thought, "I should put it in a frame and hang it in the kitchen." Duh... So I finally did. Now I just need to fill in the holes and paint that wall. LoL. (It should have been done before we moved in here, so it's not really our responsibility. But it bugs me so bad!) 
Anyway. I was walking out to put something in the mailbox to go out today, and I saw these flowers 😀 I could have sworn they were not there last year. We have tulips and grape hyacinth that come up here in the Spring. So I was happy to see these. The tulips don't have any tulips on them yet. One has a big bulb but it's not opened yet. Coincidentally these are hyacinth, too. According to my Leaf Snap app...  
After we ate Easter dinner yesterday (we always eat early for some reason on Easter), my husband said "Do you want to go for a long boring drive?" We always used to go for long drives, and I would say "Why are we doing this long boring drive? Are we actually going somewhere, or just driving? This is just a waste of gas.. I should have brought my crocheting (or knitting).." I don't know why, but I would bring my crocheting, and it became "Long boring drives". Sometimes we do actually go somewhere. We found a candy store once when the kids were little and that became a thing.. Mostly we just drive and look at things and find new places. 

We went for one yesterday. I didn't actually bring this to work on. I actually started a different pillow. (Sigh...)  I was going to frog this, because it is not going well. I pulled the sides out for the picture. But, they are about two inches ? narrower than the ribbing and it irritates me so bad. But, I was looking at the pillow I had started on our long boring drive, and it is almost the same stitch. Sigh.... I thought, maybe I will just block the hell out of it and figure something out. I got this far on it. So, I actually frogged the other pillow that I just started. 😝 I drive myself nuts. 

I don't know if I ever posted the link for this pillow. The Pillow Cardigan. I hope it enjoyed it's time in the frog pond.🐸  Ugh that makes me want to crochet a frog. I actually have one started somewhere...  Focus, focus, focus.. 😣 

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