Pretty In Pink... Perfect In Paisley!

It is coming down to the wire. A few more mos and he is done! I am done! All my attempts, good efforts, love, admiration, affection, care, guidance, and direction will be put to the ultimate test. We will all see in living motion that walk down that proverbial aisle. Headed for bigger, greener and brighter days ahead. My heart be still! How can this be? How is this possible? No wait STOP! (No! LOL This is not a scene from my ex's impending doomed marriage! Your welcome! ) This is though, a scene as my youngest graduates from high school. My baby is ready to take center stage and accept his very first acclamation towards completing a daunting, thought out, drawn out 4 year assignment. GRADUATION!!!! We are done! Well, at least we are done for highschool! ( a mothers job is never finished) The child I chose to have at 40! My gift from the heavens! Tyler Alan D. has done it! I can not be any prouder! The bond that he and I have, has and always will astound me! He asks for nothing!

Let Me Change this post up for the sake of God forsaken change! I can not remember a time when my grandma was not in the kitchen. Since becoming an adult I can not remember a time me not being in the kitchen! As much as I love to paint and teach, I love to cook more! I was meant to be in front of a group of people force-feeding them and showing off my culinary skills! I am comfortable being in front of a camera and I am confident with my speaking style! Some things in all our abilities are innate and a handful is just good at what we are born with! When I went looking for a food company to partner with, (The Gourmet Cupboard)  it had to be a company that I could incorporate my spin on with their meal prep spices etc... that I could use with my recipes. I typically cook very Italian. I may though twist a good ole American traditional meal and turn it into my own! I kinda do that with everything I touch. I put my spin on all of my creative efforts so that I can make it my own

In order to change the environment, one must leave the environment! No one can be coerced to living a situation not meant for them! Bottom line! If someone has to force you to stay put and or bribes you with falsehoods... then one needs to recognize the actions it took to make you choose your current stance! Free will and inter-pendence is a beautiful thing! No one is allowed to hang on someone coattails for the sake of the ride or for the free ride. A person is accountable and responsible for his/her own way! No one gets to milk the situation for the sake of an ego trip or for the sake of not being able to go it alone: and mostly no one is allowed to be a drain on one's emotional or mental energy! For reasons, some can not even comprehend! It gets very old trying to explain something to someone who refuses to understand the message! For the sake of KARMA too; You can not treat someone like f..k and expect to live a happy life. No one under any circumstances is allowed to tear,

Everything has a limit and most everything has a shelf life.  The key to understanding this concept is to examine a time frame ...weeks, hours, days, and years when "it" no longer is wanted, outlived a time frame, no pizazz, lost a flavor, been around too long or just went bad. Stale, unappealing and expiration dates apply to more than food. All consumers looking for a lasting anything need to understand this concept and remember the motto "caveat emptor" buyers beware. (Some things are not meant to last) Everything also has a season ! All relationships, in theory, go through a period of... There is new in Spring. There is hot in summer. There is change in fall. And... cold well ya know! Not everything is made to last. While you are going through the seasons with adaptation, you realize some seasons linger longer than anticipated and by the time it finally ends, you are relieved, you understand its timing, and you are ready to move on to a climate that you