Welcome to the Erickson movie theatre!  The chairs are cushioned and the popcorn is free!  I recommend A Dolphin Tail.  Any movie that can hold the attention of a two year old is golden in my book.

Attention Roseau County Restaurants!

Listen up!  Please update, change or completely scrap your old menus.  Every restaurant in this county sells the same kind of food.  Every restaurant that opens seems to want to conform to this “home cooking” type of food service and it is sooooo sickening.  Who wants to go out to eat home cooking?  Not me – I can cook that at home! 

Please subscribe to the Food Network if you can and if you can’t, grab the nearest computer and log onto foodnetwork.com.  They have free recipes for good food.  And the recipe titles do not include home cooking.  Don’t be scared they are not difficult and involve a lot of the same ingredients most kitchens would have.  I make the recipes at home and they are delicious.    You won’t have to take out a loan to re-vamp or your entire kitchen, I would just really like to see something special when the sign says daily special.  Not another chicken breast and fry special.  What is special about a chicken breast?  NOTHING!

That Darn Economy!

Maybe her Grandmother knew it would be their last Thanksgiving together.

Suddenly Sheila shook herself out of her trance.  She grabbed for the little pink towel that hung from the pure white pole in her perfectly orderly bathroom.  She gazed around the white tiled room that had nothing out of place.  Her toothbrush stood at attention in the cup made for it.  Her toothpaste lay with the cap in tact in the medicine cabinet out of sight.  Not even a water spot was found on the sink or mirror.  Everything in her life exuded order.

Boys…

I really can’t even believe my blessings.  For the longest time I thought I wouldn’t have children then we were blessed with Ben.  Seven years later God answered my prayers and coincidentally the prayers of women in my church group, The Ladies of the Round Table.  Along came mister Zander.  Well now I am expecting again and Zander is only 8 months old.  It’s hard for me to make it real yet, but I know it is.  We are going to have 3 children in our family and I have to admit the task seems a little daunting at times.  But I know that God is by my side and I am surrounded by friends and family that love me and Mitch and my kids, so we will be fine. 

Thank you Heavenly Father for the gifts you bless my life with each and every day on this earth.  Another day on earth is a blessing in itself, but you have overflown my cup and I praise you for this!

AWWWW…

I have been married to my wonderful partner in life for 9 years today!  Mitchell Allen Erickson I love you forever!

Inspiration

I am trying to write a poem or two for the Regional Ramblings paper, but nothing is coming to me!

I even watched my muse yesterday.  Remember the movie crocodile Dundee?  When I watched that for the first time I wanted to be a writer.  I wanted to travel all over the world meeting interesting people and writing about them. 

Well of course now I write about the most interesting people in the world – my family:-)  I don’t get to travel around the world, but I do get to travel sixty miles a day to and from work.  Lots of time to think! 

Anyway, I can’t seem to focus on a subject for my poem.  I was hoping plunking on the keys would inspire something in me, but I better keep reading instead, because this is not working!

That Darn Economy!

Sheila rolled over and tried in vain to pry her tired eyes open to view the glowing red lights at her side.  She squinted against her exhaustion and saw the clock read 3:00 am. 

What!  She bolted from the bed and grabbed the phone from its cradle.  She knew it had to be an emergency if someone was calling at this hour. 

Her mother wept on the other end of the line.

“What is it mom?”  She asked timidly

She had flashbacks of her cousin’s death ten years earlier.  It was the first experience she had with death that was so close to her.  The call came in and she stood frozen as her mother replayed the details of the swimming accident. 

She stood in the same place now and listened intently while her mother told her that her Grandmother had passed.  She knew her mother was explaining what had happened, but she quit listening as soon as the harsh truth hit her. 

“No more Grandma?”  She whispered to herself.  “Oh my gosh!”

She shook her head to wake from the trance she had just fallen into.  Her mother was now giving details of what would happen next.

“Do you have this whole thing planned out already?”  Sheila asked her mother with an unkind edge to her voice.

“Your grandmother has not been feeling well for quite some time.  She wanted everything set before she went.”  Her mother said devoid of emotion.  She knew her mother must be exhausted and overwhelmed with all she was going through. 

“I am sorry mom, really really sorry!  I will have to tie up some things at work tomorrow and I will be in the car after lunch.  I will be home tomorrow night to help you with what ever you need.  What should I bring you from here?”  Sheila tried to be more upbeat for her mother’s sake.

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My yard!

To work I go..Ho Ho

As I was driving this morning a thought accurred to me – Through the woods and over the hill I go…Well its not a hill so much as a rise in the road, but when you live in the flattest place in Minnesota that’s what you get!

Clearing the clutter

Ok I have deleted my Housewives fantasy completely!  I felt so guilty sitting on my couch last night watching the ridiculous display playing out on my television.  Even for me, the self-proclaimed reality TV junkie, the nonsense on last nights episode of the Jersey Housewives was too much!  So I deleted it and some other recordables. 

I really would like to be off TV for good, but unfortunately when I have had a really long day and the kids are in bed I like to check out for a while and staring at that box helps me do it!  I know I should boot up and start writing or pull out my latest greatest read and work my brain a little more, but I just don’t have the energy, so until another light bulb goes on I will have to deal with it. 

I am making progress.  I turned from it this morning to my computer, so maybe it’s a sign.