Mother’s Day 2009

Breakfast in bed has become tradition in our house. No, I did not eat all that bacon. We all ate in bed, so, yes, the sheets were taken off immediately after breakfast.

Toast, bacon, an ambrosia-ish salad, raspberry jam, Kerrygold butter (so good), a blob of Delice de Bourgogne cheese (even more delicious), Burnside Estate (black tea) from TeaLula and Ollie-friendly blueberry granola.  Eastman outdid himself this time.

Cajun-seasoned scrambled eggs were hiding under the plate o’ bacon.

So excited to start reading these books!! But, best of all, Abby made a most beautiful stained “glass” picture of a flower and did a survey on Mom.

Tags: cooking, family, favorite things, holiday, kids, tea, TeaLula, treasure

Looky what we found here

Oh my goodness, someone (other than my husband) please tell me about this game. Does this look crazy, circa 1970-forgotten? Maybe 1980-something. I thought this might make a funny White Elephant gift. Don’t you love how her cups are running over, and she’s holding a gun? And the look-at-my-pecs-hero-guy, and crazy pirate-muscle-man at the bottom?

Commodore64! I had to chuckle out loud. There’s a whole generation out there who don’t know what this is anymore, right? I opened the box, and Abby sees the 5-1/4″ floppy disk. Again, “Mom, what’s this?” “It’s a video game.” “Can we play it?” “No, it’s too old for our computers.” Sigh. We’re getting old.

Eastman tells me that this belonged to his buddy. Did his buddy forget all about this game, and would he take it back? Why was it hidden in storage for so long?

Tags: basement, commodore64, computer game, treasure, video game, vintage