New Products

Thought I'd give a review on some new products I've tried recently. :D

Being a HUGE coconut fan, I tried the new,  limited edition Coconut Twix candy bar. 

 Personally, this is my favorite Twix by far.  I've had the Peanut Butter, the Java, and the Triple Chocolate, along with the original.  If you like coconut, I encourage you to give this candy bar a try.  It reminds me of the Starbuck's yummy Coconut Mocha Frappuccino!  I hope they decide to keep these around for awhile!

Another product I recently is Keebler Wheatables Nut Crisp Crunchy Cashew flavored.

These crackers are imho a little bland.  They needed a little more salt or something.  They're okay.  They have bits of cashew in the cracker that are visible.  You can eat 16 crackers and they are 140 calories, so they are a nice snack for those watching their diet.

Looking for a little spice in your chip?  Try these:

These chips would be perfect with queso or rotel cheese dip!  Very flavorful and crisp.

28 years ago

Twenty-eight years ago my mom past away, and although I've shared this story before, some of you might not have read it. Of course my feelings of missing her are the same.

My mom had been hospitalized for about a month. She went into the hospital the day after I graduated from high school. When my mom was a kid she had rheumatic fever. It had damaged her heart.

Back in January of '83, my mom had gone to the dentist to have some dental work done. I'm not sure if she didn't tell the dentist she had heart problems or not. My mom got the flu soon after that and never got better. Her fingernails started getting really thick and curling over. (the doctor called it clubbing) She went to the doctor around April. I was with her, I had an ear infection. When the doctor examined my mom I could see something was wrong, from the doctor's face. He gave my mom medicine. It just got worse. The doctor admitted her into the hospital. They treated her for a month. She came home on the 29th of June. My sister had gone to get her. I was at work. My dad didn't even know my mom had been released. After my sister got home she went to work.

My brother #1 made my mom a grilled cheese sandwich with sliced pickles. Around 4 o'clock my brother #2 called me into my mom's room, telling me there's something wrong with mom. I went in. My mom was mumbling something about needing to go to the bathroom. I went over to help her. My dad is entering the house around this time. I tell my mom I'm there to help her get up. She then was saying, no, no...At the time I didn't know what was going on...my mom started going into convulsions. I heard my dad and told him something's wrong with mom...he's confused, not knowing my mom had been released from the hospital. Someone went and got the neighbor. The ambulance was on it's way. I went to go get my sister from work. We were to meet my dad at the house and then go to the hospital.

We all get to the hospital. We ask how my mom was doing. They reassured us she was fine. We wait. We wait some more. A doctor calls us to an office. He introduces himself shakes my dad's hand and says, "I'm sorry, but your wife is dead" SHOCK, DISBELIEF...what happened? why? CONFUSION...

Later we found out that my mom had gotten an infection from the dental work. This caused pericarditis (an infection of the lining of the heart). My mom died because she was weak and had aspirated (choked internally)

We also found out that the ambulance that was carrying my mom to the hospital broke down and they had to wait for another one to arrive.

Would all that make any difference? I have no idea.

I miss my mom...I miss her. I think I miss her more and more every year. It seems to get more difficult instead of easier.

I wonder things like would she like the choices I made in my life. Would she like my husband? Would she enjoy being a grandmother? What kind of relationship would we have? would we be more like mother/daughter or friends? What would we spend our time together doing?

Did my mom know the LORD? I really don't know. I don't know if I'll see her again someday and that really hurts. Maybe that's why it gets tougher and tougher each year.

I miss you and love you, Mom.

Cadillac Ranch

Probably most of you have seen these pictures on my FB.  Yes, I have wonderful friends, for the most part, that talked me back into going over to FB, not to mention I was extra emotional last week...if you know what I mean....

We went to Cadillac Ranch the other day. It was so unbelieveably hot. Of course everyday seems hot because of spending the last 2 years up north!

For those of you that don't know, Cadillac Ranch is a row of Cadillacs put in the ground upside down, as a form of art in a farm field.  You can read more HERE.

It was so hot, we didn't think the kids would want to walk up to the cadillacs.  So we took pictures from the side of the road.

The kids were like, "Ah that's cool, can we walk up?"  yikes....it's hot!!!!  but we did it!

Here's DH and I...don't even ask what's up with my hair...too much wind and the sunglasses pulled on the top of my head!

Here's the kiddos:

We left, and the kids were disappointed we didn't bring the spray paint.  "Can we go get some and come back? We want to graffiti!" LOL "Yes, later when it cools down."  "Oh that means we won't!"

But not true!  We went to Palo Duro Canyon next.  Got our TX State Parks season passes, drove around where the temps were even hotter!  120*F in the Canyon!

Afterwards, we went to the Big Texan Steakhouse.  For those of you that don't know, The Big Texan is a famous landmark in Amarillo for their 72oz steak challenge.  You can read more HERE and HERE.  While we were there, two guys tried the challenge.  The first guy quit after about 30 minutes with about 1/2 his steak left.  The second guy seemed awfully slow, and we left before his hour was up. 

From there we went to Hellmart, aka Walmart (if you don't know why I call it that, I have a love/hate relationship with them and probably have some posts on this blog about it, otherwise they have been deleted from my old blog) and got some spray paint for the kids.  Belle got red and Joe Bug got black.  We drove back over to Cadillac Ranch and here's the kids creations:

Great day in all.  Came home exhausted and crashed from all that heat!  :)