As evidence that Marge was correct when she said that “She grew up to be a beautiful lady with many talents,” when she was talking about Melissa, I wanted to share some of the reasons that I agree:
Beautiful:
And here is just a small selection of her talents:
She makes beautiful babies:
She feeds our babies:
And does countless other things for us that are her way of showing us her love. She is very smart, very caring, and just fun to be around.
She is perfect, in my not so humble opinion…
I opened up my email this morning to find one entitled “My Little Helper” from my mother. She had sent a sweet picture of her oldest daughter (that would be me) at about 20 months old. Just a few months younger than little Gloria now. Here is the message and picture:
Once upon a time I had a sweet little helper that was every bit as cute as your little helper. She grew up to be a beautiful lady with many talents. Here is what she looked like once upon a time.
Tee-hee. I was so cute. What happened?!
It is time for me to do SOMETHING about our pitiful front flower bed. For the first two years we were here, I planted some cute little bubblegum pink azaleas. The first two summers we were here were also record breaking droughts, so now there are only a couple of azalea twigs left. (This is out of 10 total, with 5 being replanted after the first year.) There is yellow lantana in the front, but of course it isn’t up yet and dies down during the winter to make it look completey empty and lifeless.
As of now, I have narrowed it down to the idea of perhaps putting some small gardenia bushes there-because we don’t have enough carpenter bees living in our porch rails-or some small white azaleas yet again.
I’ve contemplated boxwoods (no flowers), nandinas (poisonous berries and more of a fall display anyway), and cactus (they’d survive a drought!).
I might have to look around some more. Sigh.
April 2, 2009 3:59 pm | 
