Category Archives: Memories

Family, Favorites, Holidays, Memories

Favorite Easter Memories

  1. Early morning Sunrise Services, sitting outside, shivering in the early desert air
  2. Breakfast in the church fellowship hall
  3. Beautiful dresses sewn by my mother
  4. Dying eggs  –the smell of vinegar, writing on eggs with a white crayon, leaving them in the dye a long time to get vivid colors
  5. Hiding and seeking the eggs
  6. The year my dad hid an egg in the rafters of the front porch and it wasn’t found ’til months later
  7. Easter hymns: “Hear the bells ringing they’re singing that we can be born againnnnnnn…”
  8. Imagining the wonder of the women who found the empty tomb
  9. Easter baskets with chocolate and jelly beans and plastic grass

    Easter Sunday, Late 70s
Family, Favorites, Memories

Things I Miss About My BFF Wendy

  1. Her laugh – the way she would throw her head back and clap her hands together and laugh with her whole soul
  2. Her ability to get things done.  Now.
  3. Her willingness to stop whatever she was doing to do something more important for her friends.
  4. Her enthusiasm for life.
  5. Her refusal to let the cancer define her as a person.
  6. Her stubborness.  It’s a trait we share.
  7. Her slightly naughty sense of humor, which probably most of you didn’t get to see.
  8. Her all encompassing love for her children, all 5 of them.
  9. Lunch at Chi-chis.  Or Bishops.  Or Hardees.
  10. Girls time in DesMoines with all 3 of us BFFs
  11. The way she never ever ever complained about anything.  Not the cancer, not her divorce, not the chemo, not even at the end.
  12. Her drive and ambition.
  13. Her cream cheese mints.
  14. Planning events with her.
  15. When she would load up all the 8 million kids and take them to her house to make cookies.
  16. How she always told me the truth.  Always.  No matter whether I wanted to hear it or not.
The 3 of us - www.wendysbutterflygarden.com
Favorites, Memories, Travel

Things I Miss About Arizona

  1. Constant sunshine
  2. 75 degree winters
  3. Mountains
  4. Oranges and orange groves
  5. Palm trees
  6. Cacti
  7. The wildness of the desert
  8. The Mogollon Rim
  9. The lack of snow
  10. Oleanders
The back yard of the house I grew up in
The neighbors' oleander bushes
Links, Memories, Work

Jobs I’ve Held

Cutco Cutlery & The Forever Guarantee
  1. Babysitter
  2. Landscaper
  3. Retail sales – women’s clothes
  4. Telemarketer
  5. Preschool teacher
  6. Grocery store clerk
  7. Retail sales – lingerie department
  8. Retail sales – shoe department
  9. Personal sales – Cutco cutlery
  10. Personal sales – House of Lloyd decor
  11. Retail sales – ladies wear
  12. Assistant to department manager – electronics
  13. Retail sales – electronics department
  14. Stockroom / Dock
  15. Internet research
  16. Telephone transcription
  17. Choir teacher – 5th grade – High school
  18. Secretary
  19. Sales Manager
  20. Lifeguard
  21. Horse wrangler
  22. Kitchen/ Dish room
  23. Water exercise instructor
  24. Lifeguard instructor
  25. Swim instructor
  26. Children’s “Rhythm & Rhyme” movement instructor
  27. Copywriter, editor, blog marketing
  28. Lifeguard supervisor