Hello!

Well, good thing you're married then! :)

I am not married ( only online husband and great friend)

oh, sorry!

What are you sorry for? I have the best of both worlds.

No, i was sorry i assumed......

So did everyone else. Not a problem. Life is sweet.

Thank you for being generous, Donna.

As for Boston, it's one of my favorite cities. AND I found a great consignment shop on Newbury Street! :)

This trip was mostly business and I did not get a chance to shop. Maybe next trip for sure. I love to go to china Town and buy knock-offs of purses.

I wasn't too impressed with China Town, but I love every other area. Last time there I saw the Holocaust Memorial. I didn't even know Boston had one. We also took the corny "Duck Tour".....but it was fun.

I go to Boston almost every six months or so. Next trip is in August.

The Holocaust Memorial is a very humbling experience. I have not been to visit the one in Boston, but I have visited the one in central Florida. I have many pictures of it and I should post a story.

It's always nice to go home for a visit.

It always seems like everything is the same and nothing ever changes. Also everything looked bigger when you were a kid compared to now.

welcome back

Thank you flit.

While you were gone there was another Gather upgrade. It's now easier to give "10's". The bookmarks don't get in the way like they used to.
Welcome back!

Did I get a 10 from you? It's about time they changed that. It is nice to be home. There is no place like home ( clicking red heels three times )

Sure.

xox, thanks

John, I rarely use the ratings, but I am glad that they fixed that problem.

Oh yes, the visit your mom and clean out the cabinets trip - I've taken those.:)

Glad you had fun. Yup there have been more changes. I'm still here hanging in there.

I cam home and cleaned out my cabinets too.

Rose, it's been years, but yes, I've made those trips too. :)

Thanks for the morning giggle! Trips back home are always interesting!

Going home always makes me feel like a little girl, I even slept in my childhood bedroom. I should say tired to sleep its kind of hard to do when 50 dolls on the next bed are watching you. I swear that I saw Chucky a time or two. I will post a picture of the bed.

There is no way I could sleep with that many dolls watching me! I never was a big fan of dolls, always thought that they were creepy!

We still use shelf paper in our kitchen too. Mostly to hide our ugly shelves. -grin-

Can't use shelf paper here the roaches would have a field day.

I lined the dresser drawers in out "guest" bedroom. Our guests, at least so far, are exclusively family. Our kitchen shelves are lined with contact paper but it's nowhere nearly new.

People still use contact paper? Contact paper and I don't agree with each other. The last time I uses contact paper was on my V.W. bug to spruce up the door frames.

I don't know if people still do or not. That contact paper was put on a long time ago. Fortunately it's washable.

ROFL Donna!
Curfew...
Clean out the kitchen...
Been there, done that, lol!

She meant it too. I was late one night and got locked out.

it is always fun to go home for a visit, I don't have to stay the night at my mom's she only lives 20 minutes away.
the 5o's called and they want their kitchen back, that is funny!

The experience of cleaning out her kitchen made me come home and clean mine. I don't want my kids to say look at all this old expired stuff Mom kept. If anything ever happens to me I have a best friend who knows where I hide my private stuff and she knows what to do with it if and when.

which is your hometown? i live in a suburb next to concord.

A very small town on the Cape, outside of Beantown.

Sounds like you had a good time even though you had to do housework;) I never used shelf paper until I moved in with my boyfriend. He insisted on using it in the kitchen because we live in an apartment and he didn't want our dishes touching shelves that had been used by other people. I totally roll my eyes at him but I went along with it. My mom puts a curfew on me when I visit and my sister still lives with my parents so she has a curfew too. Although it is a lot later than 9p.m.:)

Hey Mom! Holly's mom let's her stay out past 9 why can't I?

Cake mixes expired in the '70's--ewwww....Wait! Maybe I should check my shelves, too.

I went to Winnepeg, and came back to the States and milked a cow.

My grandfather use to have a farm in Vermont and I have milked many a cow, he use to name the cows after his children and us grandchildren. Lot's of fun and great memories.

Glad to see you back Donna!!


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Cake mixes from the 1970;s-yikes! When we cleaned out by great-grandmothers cellar we found some from the 50's (canned veggies) same with my paternal grandmother, canned food from the 60's-70's ewwww!

My grandmother would keep sticky ribbon Christmas candy in a pickle jar, could never get it out of the jar.

Welcome Home, Donna!! Glad you had a good visit :~)

Hwy there! thank you.

Sounds like you had a good time even know the curfew was a little early. The kids that are around here are welcome to come but we do have some rules. Boyfriends can be the tricky one, but curfew there is none as long as you are not drunk and do not wake anyone when you come home. I feel if they are big enough to live on their own then I have to set up adjusted rules. Now the cake mixes well I too need to look but I do not think they would be that old.

lol Tami!

I needed the rest anyways so the curfew wasn't such of a big deal, but I did keep counting the hours until my flight out.

LOL! When my oldest daughter turned 18, we told her that she could go out and have her fun, but she had to be home by 10pm! We weren't about to be waiting up for her till 2 or 3 in the morning!!

After a few days I couldn't take it and spent the night down the road at my sisters house after telling Mom I would do so. I don't think she believed me tho.

Moms are like that! LOL

You sound like you had fun even with the curfew. Glad you came back so fast, everyone missed you!

My trip was a bittersweet one as my Mom is very ill.

Gee, I didn't know. Hope she is better soon.

glad you are back

Thank you Lena

It's good to see you're back. I've missed your posts. I threw out some salad dressing the other day that expired in 1996. I think it was some we took from my husband's grandmother's house when she passed away. I know it wasn't mine because it was 'lite' and I never buy 'lite' dressing. I'd rather eat my salad plain than use 'lite' dressing.

Lite dressing is the worse. I would rather make my own with balsamic vinger and extra virgin olive oil.

glad you are back

:) When I took care of my late parents off and on stuff like that too. No tv after 9pm, every one goes to bed.... They kept the heat up to over 80, I had to open a window in my room for the cold night breeze. I wouldn't go the powdered milk and like I did when I was in HS I went and bought milk.

It was much better when my Dad was staying at my home at the end of his life, he had a heater in his room and I could accommodate everyone. At his house it was his rules.

I think people of his generation liked to majorly control things. When I was in my mid 40's and we moved down here he actually drove over to the house we were going to rent to check it out and wound up talking to the owner who was getting it ready. It was like I was 5 years old all over again...him thinking I was making poor choices, but in away it was nice he cared.

thanks for sharing

I love Boston. It's a great place to visit. Yes I still use shelf paper. If I spill the Karo syrup it's much easier to clean up if it's spilled on the shelf paper.

There's no place like home.

Let's do the time warp....again!

Hey Donna what is an online husband and true friend? We have the Karo syrup, peanut butter on the kitchen table and a "grease jar" on our stove to catch the bacon drippings all because it was in the dowry I inherited (and his Mom always had that) with the second husband I married after widowhood. People Are Funny. Wasn't that a t.v. show or a book by somebody?

celebrate each day like it's your last. that's all we can do =)

sorry to hear about your mother too **hugs**