May Be a Hodgepodge

Looks like I "MAY" have made it just in time to join the Hodgepodge!!

How many of these things on my May bucket list did I get done?  SIX... including ice cream, planting, photos, surprising someone, swinging, making Lemonade.

Join Joyce at the hodgepodge

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1. Do you like your name? Are you named after someone (grandparent, etc)? If you have children how did you choose their names? 

I have always liked my name.     I am SHUG....many people do not even know that I have a given name.  My parents gave me the name .... Anita Lynn, but I have not been called Anita in 30 years.  My grandkids began calling me "Sugar" and this soon turned into Shug....sometimes Sugar Booger.  When I was the Librarian at our local school...All of the kids called me Shug the same as my grandkids.  Even the Principle and the teachers called me Shug.  

Our entire community knows me as Shug.  I'm even known by Shug at my doctor's office!!

🌺 My mother actually chose our daughters names...

Trista and Shanda. 🩷🩷

2.  A piece of red velvet cake, a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a slice of blueberry pie? You can only have one...which will you choose? If you could pick any red, white, or blue dessert other than those listed here, what would you choose? 

Blueberry pie for sure....    

I would choose strawberry Pretzel salad with a few blueberries.  🫐

3.  What's a job you'd like to try for just one day?

Well....if I'm going to choose a job for one day, I might as well dream big.  I would like to try my hand at being a food journalist.  Fly to Italy...try all kinds of foods and write about them.   🍜🥗

4. Any patriotic decor in your home currently or coming up this summer? 

I have even surprised myself this year... NO, red, white and Blue decorations in our home this year.  I'm content with how things look in our home and for this reason PLUS the busyness of my life right now helped me make the decision to sit this one out.   🇺🇸

5. It's the end of May, so let's exercise our brains. Sum up your month with an acrostic using the word MAY. We can do it!!  

Music playing through open windows... 🎼🎤

A little more laughter than worry.... 🤣😂

Yes to simple joys and peaceful hearts... 💛🌸💛

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Isn't it funny how certain smells or songs can take you back to a moment in life...much faster than a photograph ever could?  

One old song on the radio can suddenly bring back people, places and good ol' memories that you haven't thought about in years.  

And I love how the smell of fresh cut grass always takes me back to childhood evenings when my dad was cutting the grass..

Hearing an old worship song can bring back memories of seasons in my life when my faith carried me through the hard days.  

Rain on a hot pavement is a smell that makes me think of my trips to "Six Flags over TEXAS."

The scent of homemade biscuits takes me right back to my mom's kitchen...The best biscuits ever made...

May you have sunshine and Good vibes all day long..

Shug...