I still don’t have my new washer & dryer since Home Depot seems to think they must live up to their crummy delivery reputation, however, this has a bright side 🙂
I’m still doing my laundry at my mother-in-law’s house, which gives the opportunity for stories to be heard.
One of my favorite stories she’s told me is the time Abuelita Francisca Lara prepared an avocado for the very first time. Welo Faustino had been somewhere and had tasted guacamole and brought an avocado home for grandma to fix. Now Francisca had never prepared an avocado before, and since it was rock-hard, she set it in a pot of water to boil 😉 She waited and watched….as the water turned green, the skin came off, and inside a large hard seed appeared. This, grandpa Faustino said, was not how it had looked that day when he had tried it, but then, he didn’t know how they had prepared it either. They laughed and laughed at their experiment gone wrong as they looked at the green soup in the pot. Later on, someone shared the secret of guacamole with grandma, and I’m sure they had another laugh as she told the story of the green soup 🙂

via YOU HOLD THE KEY~ — Lisa Simone’s blog

Tomorrow is the day! The Happy Birthday Day 🙂 March 30
Dad will always be our James Dean, our Elvis….forever young….our Movie Star ❤ the Most Handsome Guy, the Best Dad, the Most Talented, married to the Most Beautiful Woman, father of 3 Gorgeous, Talented, Spirited, Adventurous Girls 😉 hehe
Happy Birthday (be it a day early) Wayne Bechthold!! We LOVE You!

There’s a lovely quotation ..”there’s a trick to the graceful exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving on, rather than out. It’s hard to realize life isn’t a holding action, but a process. We don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind…we own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can take ourselves along – quite gracefully.”

So, go with grace, my daughter.

From my mother….Donna Bechthold

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It was raining soup today at the Rustic Cafe. Aron and I had made it through the downpours to the dentist in Midland and were headed out 158. I knew where I was, even though I’d never been that way before, I am the family navigator, you see. I had checked the route on my phone’s GPS before leaving the dentist’s office.                                              Just a few miles down the road and the GPS showed me to be quite a bit past my turn-off, so I pulled off the road to get my bearings. Trucks whizzed by, rocking our heavy duty truck as the clam chowder continued to fall from the sky.                                                                     From the back seat, Aron said, “where’s Papa?” I told myself, c’mon girl, you can do this, and told him, we’ll be ok! I looked at my phone, not believing it’s GPS, yet beginning to doubt myself too. I could see a sign ahead so I slowly pulled forward till I could make out the numbers….158….I knew it! I tapped my phone screen and gave it a dirty look as the little blue dot scooted over to where I already knew I was.
I checked my mirrors and merged into the waterway of highway 158, headed for 385. I could feel the water under the tires to I kept my right wheels just outside the white line and my left wheels in the center of the lane for traction. By the time we got to the 385 junction, the rain was mostly to our east and was just sprinkling.                                             We met Amanda and Tyler between Andrews and Lamesa out in the middle of nowheresville, in the sprinkles, and deposited him safely with them. They headed back to Lubbock and I headed for home, alone, and thanked God for Taking the Wheel today.

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