A few years ago, while going through my father-in-law’s things after his death, I ran across some film canisters…I made sure the tin lids were on tight and put them in a plastic bag and gave them to my sister-in-law…. Last Saturday, the day of the husband’s birthday party, a package came in the mail for my husband and his twin brother…. They sat on the couch while the husband opened the paper….. There nestled in the bottom of a cigar box were two DVD-R’s. The husband picked them up and said … “ What the hell is this?”…. His brother replied…. “ I think it’s a movie…” I took it from them and went to our TV…. Everyone gathered behind me as the movie started….Across the screen came the word “memories” and then in bright brilliant color people I had never seen before danced across a church floor for a wedding that looked like it took place 50 years ago…. Then it skipped to showing children playing in the snow…. The music played softly as snow balls flew through the air…. Then I saw my husband lean up and say… “ That’s me!” and then everyone watched as the things my father-in-law loved the most in life played out across the screen like a Oscar winning motion picture…. The husband watched as his older brother who had died 11 years ago in a fire, leaned down to kiss his cheek…. There were no tears… I watched as they were mesmerized and the smiles were huge across their faces…. There father smiling and waving at the camera with his conductors uniform on…. Giving them candy from his black bag he was holding…. Their mother…. young and beautiful stepping up to kiss him lightly across the lips…. And then a cartoon of Mighty mouse came on!… I looked at the husband and he said… “ Daddy use to put his film camera up and we watched cartoons.”…. Even Shirley Temple danced a lick and as everyone laughed I reached into the cigar box and pulled out a card and handed it too the husband…. After moving a dollar bill out of the way, It read… “ Happy birthday son…. Love mom” I handed the other card to my brother-in-law and it read the same with another dollar…. I’m still wondering what the dollars were for…. Even the husband had a confused look on his face… The husband’s mother has never liked me… and I use to care about that but in the past 6 years I haven’t gave a rat stinking *%@# about it… Or her either… She use to be able to stair me down with this funny look she has… it’s a look like… “ GOD ALMIGHTY!.. Why do you have to be so stupid!”… but not any more… I look right back at her, like … “ NO… WHY DO “YOU” HAVE TO BE SO STUPID!”…. And she looks away from me… Now this has nothing to do with nothing but while my niece was here she came up to me and said.. “ Aunt Sherrena… You sure like cheese nips huh?”…. I said… “ Why do you ask?” and her reply was … “ Because you have boxes of cheese nips all over your house…” I looked around and I did!…. I even have them stashed under the coffee table and in the cookie jar…. Even a box in my room and at my desk… I told Jen to hurry and pour them all in a bowl for the party before anyone came and saw my cheese nip collection…. I couldn’t believe myself!… Anyway, I think I’m going to try to cut back on those little tasty cheese crackers…..Ok…. And the Mrs. Cubbison’s cheese crackers that I love too …. And more exercising!… And I think I might switch to diet DP. …. A friend of mine drinks it and he says it’s great….

I hope everyone has a good day today… hugs to everyone……………………………..