Livin’ Life On The Lamb

This being May and all, we had our mom’s group party at my place this month. It’s always the first Thursday of every month (thanks for letting me know Karla), and May was my month, so May 1st it was! We had Hawaiian Haystacks - I made the rice and gravy, and everyone else brought toppings. There were only 3 people who actually knew what HH were, and they were both LDS. Funny, huh? I kept hearing people say, “Hey, this is really good.” or “Wow, this is tasty!” or “Oh, I didn’t think it would taste this yummy!”. It was very funny.

Everyone brought something to share, and some took their containers home, but others brought their toppings in “take ‘n toss” plastic ware. When I tried to give Karla back her container with the onions in it, she said it was no problem to keep it. “What about your container?” I asked.
“What?” she replied, “It’s take ‘n toss. I don’t care!”

Um…did I miss something? Do people actually TAKE this stuff places and TOSS it when they are done? They don’t wash it? They don’t re-use it? When did this start happening? I still wash and rinse out the ziploc bags (unless they had liquids or yuckies in them), dry them out, and re-use them. Where have I been? I think I’m a little outa the loop…

Except, I think I’m going to volunteer to host the mom’s group party the next time I start needing containers for our leftovers - I’ve got lots for now!

What do you mean it’s not called Valentime’s Day? That’s what my friend Robin calls it! She even gave Valentimes out at the Valentimes party on Valentimes Day! Hee, hee, hee. Karla and I gave her a really hard time about it, but somehow, funny things like that fade unless they are put on paper or typed in a blog.So I had this really cute picture of Noah that I super-imposed under a monkey who was holding a banana, typed, “I’d go BANANAS if you’d be my Valentine”, and gave them out at the Valentime’s party on Wednesday. For some reason, I can’t get it to load, so you get a two-year-old picture of Noah’s second Valentimes Day when I made some yummy chocolate-covered pretzels for Helaman because he is such a sweetie.

This year, things are pretty simple - no card, balloons, or flowers. But I did get dinner brought home to me by my hubby, and how awesome is it NOT to cook on Valentimes Day?

I don’t know what it’s about, or why it started, or why we still celebrate it, but hope everyone had a great day and that you enjoyed it with your special Valentime….hee, hee, hee…Robin is going to KILL me!