Why? Why am I attempting (and yes, I said attempting) to start my own blog? Very complicated answer and one I am not sure I can truthfully answer because I don't know the full answer myself. I am not very technological at all and don't know a lot of what I am doing with blogging but guess I will learn along the way. I know for now that as I am approaching my 50th year of life, as I just turned 49 in December, that I am feeling all kinds of thoughts I have never had before. It's amazing and kind of scary all at once. If you have been here please let me know. Wow! A lot has happened in the almost 50 years of my life and what is going to happen in the years ahead? I have been thinking a lot of what is like to be getting older and though my mind doesn't feel like I am about 50, my body sure does! Anyway, back to getting older. There are so many changes as you pass along the road of life and you just don't know what life has in store in life for you.
I grew up in MA and have lived in Kentucky for the past 6 1/2 years. It's a change moving from New England to Kentucky. How did we get here? Long story and it will be a thought for another time.
We have 3 children who really aren't children any more. They all live in KY now. We have 2 boys who are 26 and 28 years old. Josh lives here in town with us and the Brian lives in Lexington and is going to school at UK to write and become a lawyer. They are not married yet and just trying to go along the road of life and attain their goals. They have both accomplished much in their lives and we are proud of them. Our oldest child and only daughter is 30, Jenni, or Jen to most of you, who lives here in town with us also and is married to a wonderful man named Daniel from Kansas City. They have 2 beautiful daughters, Olivia and Sophia, who are almost 4 and 2 and a baby boy is due in May!
I am Mimi and I just love it! Being a grandmother is just a whole other world and no one can tell you anything about it until it happens! Pure and simple. You won't realize how much these tiny babes from your once tiny babe will melt your heart. Being a grandparent is one of life's many blessings as you get older. It's a wonderful gift I am so proud of and thankful for. I know I will have lots of thoughts about being a grandmother and share them with you as I continue on this blogging journey.
I know my husband feels the same way. He is Grampy or PePe as Olivia had decided to call him much to his resistance. No, not the elegant French pronunciation that would fit in just nicely with my husband's Canadian French heritage, but the simple "pee pee" word. It's just the way it is for now. He accepts it now but I know he is secretly wanting it to change as they get older.
Brian, my husband of nearly 31 years! Wow! That seems like such a long time when you say it! I don't feel old enough to be have been married for 31 years or have a 30 year old daughter! Time flies by so quickly and you have to enjoy the good and learn from the bumps of life.
Brian, or Mack as I call him, have a wonderful marriage and I truly love him from the bottom of my heart. He is a real man through and through. He loves football, dirt, food, and hates pink like the rest of them but underneath his rough demise is a caring compassionate man, whom I have grown to love dearly. Yes, I said grown to love dearly. When you get married at 18 and 19 years old you learn to love someone. We were so young and had a lot to learn about love and just being married. We come from 2 totally different backgrounds and at our young age of marriage didn't realize how much that would interfere with our lives. That love you feel as a teenager is real but what grows from that is the best kind of love between 2 human beings ever!
I learned a lot about marriage from watching my parents and from church but all that learning was from seeing, listening, and reading. When the marriage vows are over the real learning starts!
Cooking. I love to cook! I brings me lots of pleasure to cook and share meals with families and friends. My mother's Sicilian heritage and her love of cooking has been passed down to all of her 6 children! My mom's family had their own Italian restaurant in Boston when they first came over from Sicily. My mom had her own restaurant later in her life, and one of my sisters had her own deli. I know loving to cook is genetic! It has to be!
I am always being asked for recipes and the truth of the matter is that I don't really have them written down. They are in my head and I just get out my ingredients and cook. One thing I have recently realized is that I want to write a cook book so I can pass my heritage along to my grandchildren. It may take me a few years to accomplish this but I really want to get it done. I am sure that this is part of what Erikson says I am suppose to do as I go through the stages of life. I am not sure about Erikson, but I know Jacqueline feels a need to do this all on her own! Aside from my family's cooking I have lots of recipes from my friends that I may have changed or added to. I think this is the key to all great cooks...take a recipe and make it your own! I would hope my friends would feel free to do that to my recipes also. It adds character and personality to your cooking!
I love God, my husband, my kids, my grandchildren, cooking, puppies, and the beach! I miss my home in MA and long for times with my family and friends there often, but KY is home now and where we will stay. I guess I should really say we have 2 homes now. Where I grew up, where my family heritage is, and where I learned to love God and all the blessings of life will always have a special place in my heart I will always call there home. But I now have a home here in KY too where I have learned so much, have met so many dear and now close friends, have a wonderful church family, and where I became a grandparent!
KY has a special place in my heart now too! (Just wish the ocean was a little closer!)
