Can you believe that it has been one year today since I started writing on this web site. How the time does fly! Thanks for all of the kind words of encouragement that I have received. It does mean a lot!!

We had our family reunion this past week-end. It is always great to get together with all of your relatives and catch up on the latest news. Since we are so scattered about, it is usually the only time that some of us see each other.

We laughed and told silly stories and jokes and ate way too much!

I learned something about Rick’s wife Cheria that I didn’t know. She doesn’t like chocolate! Now how can that be? I thought they passed that out with American Citizenship. My mother use to say that she thought that I would eat grasshoppers if she put chocolate on them, when I was growing up. Maybe I wouldn’t go that far……Now I can see someone like Anthony Bourdain on the Travel Channel chomping down on some chocolate grasshoppers in some remote village somewhere; but I think I’ll pass on that one, even though I really do like chocolate.

One of my cousins told a story about how she made these little potpourri bundles and tied them with a ribbon and put in the back of her car.  Her son was driving it and got stopped by the police. He thought that it was marijuana and hauled him into the station. One of the other officers looked at it and said, “You dummy, that is potpourri that she has put in her car to make it smell good.”

We had great fun and I can’t wait until next year!!