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Happy 100th Birthday Grandma!

Grandma, today you would have celebrated your 100th birthday. I would have loved to have seen you make it to such a milestone but you have been gone for nine years now. There isn’t a day where I do not think about you and all the memories we shared. I often bake your oriole chocolate cake to slip back into my childhood to remember all of the birthday celebrations when you baked my favorite cake. I crave the way you baked your cake, only wishing mine tasted as good. Today, I will think of you more often and will plant another gardenia in your loving memory.

I miss you more than you know. Happy 100th Birthday.

This was taken the day after my Junior Prom on Mother’s Day, 1999.

My first Birthday

My Aunt, Dad and Grandma

What fills your heart with love?

I am thankful for everything that fills my heart with love, of course, there are many other things that keep this heart of mine fluttering. However, these are some that come straight to my mind. . .

our adopted fur baby, delilah. we have had her for over a year and couldn’t imagine life without her. even if she does love to eat my yoga pants and steal my food now and again.

I love being a mommy. If a day isn’t going that great I just have to look at my precious babe to brighten my day. She is my heart.

My family. Though at times we get on each other’s last nerve, we do it because we love one another, I wouldn’t trade this family for the world.

Cupcakes. What isn’t there to love? Just seeing them complete after baking and piping puts a huge smile on my face and a few extra pounds on my thighs. 😉

Every girl needs a great circle of friends. Friends stick by you through the good and the bad, those who haven’t experienced this are missing out on one of life’s greatest joys.

Here just dating and my first trip to NYC back in 2002. I left a part of my heart in that city and for that matter on that coast, but kept the best thing about the east having kept him here with me in the west for nine years now.

My sister’s love. I don’t tell her I love her enough. Sissy, I love you. I have never stopped and never will. Besides Jim you are my better half and we don’t even need to speak to understand one another. I thank you for my making me an auntie x 3


What fills your heart with love!?