lunch with Andy Garcia

While in Baton Rouge, Mom, the girls and I had lunch with Ida at Serops and we had the best waiter ever. You know that I love to chat a waiter up, and he told us that he was Andy Garcia (his name was really Saeed). We jumped on it. It was the best. He called the girls baby angels, and took such good care of us. Even after we stayed an hour after the restaurant closed in between lunch and dinner (when we start chatting, we have no concept of what's going on around us!). I love a waiter that knows how to take good care of us, you know what I mean? And if he's cute, bonus points. I ate a thousand pounds of hommus and pita and drank a thousand gallons of lebanese iced tea. The perfect lunch!

the future?

I was going thru some old pictures for a friend of mine, and came across this one, which made me laugh. Everytime I fuss at the girls or punish them or something crazy happens, I always say "they can add it to the list, and they can tell Oprah all about it". A couple of years ago, we went to San Antonio and went to the wax museum, and I couldn't resist getting a picture of them hanging with Oprah, knowing perhaps this would be my undoing, this would be them telling all of the stories of their crazy mother and all the horrible things she did. Or maybe this will be them telling about their mother who loved them more than anything on the face of this earth and that did the very best she could. As awesome as that would be, the first one would get better ratings....

lazy...

the girls and I are taking "the lazy days of summer" literally right now. Jon's out of town, and we are still in our pjs - the girls have been on the wii all day (Cassidy is making me crazy - everytime something good or bad happens in a game, she makes this noise like a wet cat - not good), and believe it or not, I can't find a thing to watch on tv - I've watched all the shows I had taped on my dvr - I could go clean out a closet or organize my office, but (insert whine here), I really don't want to do that. I told the girls I would take them to a pool today, but they had to clean up the playroom first, and they are still on the wii, so I guess I'm free to go be a lounge lizard and maybe rewatch last week's episode of True Blood (for the third time, but my tv vampire boyfriends are really cute!).

freedom isn't free

Happy 4th of July to you...a few days early, but I say everyday truly is Independence Day in the United States - because we should be thankful for our freedom every single day. I don't believe that we treasure our freedom enough, although I think some days it becomes more apparent to us that we ought to. The girls and I went with some ladies with the American Legion Auxillary to the Conroe VA Clinic to deliver some cookie trays to the veterans that were there. It was nice to be able to tell them "thank you" for their service to our country. I was glad the girls were able to go and be able to visit with them - they were shy and sat while I talked (Megan would tell you that it was because she couldn't get a word in because I talked too much - I couldn't help it - I met a fellow Tiger fan - who used to go to the Blind River Bar!). I think we made a difference in their day, especially Gary and Lonnie - I really enjoyed talking to them - they were both Vietnam Vets, Gary was in the Navy - a SeaBee, I'm not sure what Lonnie was in, we were too busy talking about Louisiana stuff! Any fellow David parents reading that donated cookie dough back to the school, this is where some of that cookie dough went - I used the remaining cookie dough to bake cookies for these veterans for the cookie trays for the American Legion Auxillary- they ask me for cookie donations from time to time, and I'm always happy to help - whatever I can do. I am so thankful for their service and sacrifices for our country. Because freedom isn't free - it takes the sacrifices of the men and women who have served and currently serve in our armed forces and may God bless all of them.