Tag: Penny For Your Thoughts

THEY ARE IN THE BALLOON

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Approximately 25 years ago my family started a tradition that is still part of our Christmas today. My family all loves to play the Dollar Game. I am sure everyone has played it, but our family takes all year looking for “gag” gifts or something unique for the…

KITCHEN DISASTERS

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Loving food and the kitchen came to me at a very young age. I tried to imitate my grandma’s cooking, but she really did not write very many recipes down. What a time I had when I first got married.  My husband was used to his mom’s cooking…

STOP LOOK AND LISTEN

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker One of my New Years resolutions is to listen to others and acquire more common sense. I am not saying I’m dumb, but sometimes I tend to follow my own thoughts and lots of times it is because I haven’t absorbed or paid attention to what I was…

HAVING FUN

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker It is funny that as we reach certain ages, how our idea of “fun” changes.  Babies, for example, will start noticing rattles, stuffed animals and toys at an early age. That is fun for them and for parents as well. Then we reach Kindergarten and  grade  school. Our ideas of…

FLU ADVICE

Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker It seems like I can’t get a break. I thought that after the first frost my allergies would disappear until Spring, but then I was struck by the flu bug. I noticed that on Thursday night, my throat was sore, and by Friday morning I woke up and my voice was so…

A Christmas Dinner

Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker Christmas dinner does not have to be ham, potatoes and pies. For the past 3 years I have ordered Sub sandwiches with toppings and a cookie platter. Everyone brings something and it is not a formal deal, it is just simple and good. What we cook for the…

PICKING UP THE PIECES

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitacker This was too good not to tell so am writing this and the author was anonymous.  I was at TJ Maxx yesterday and heard a loud crash and something shattering. Being nosy, I walked towards the sound and saw some people whispering and looking back to the end of…

FAMILY REUNIONS

Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker I got a letter in the mail a couple of summers ago  and I noticed it came from Florida. I said, “Hmmm. Who do I know from Florida?” It was from a Fran Rangle and once I opened it I was surprised and happy to find that it was an…

BAKED IN A PIE

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitacker  I know I am guilty. I love pie. Pie can finish off a good meal and I have even saw people eat their pie first at dinners.  Have you ever went to a dinner and for dessert there was a big table full of all kinds of pie? …

A POWERFUL TONGUE

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  One of the things we try and teach our children is not to stick their tongues out at people. It is rude and  some kids and adults will do it to someone they don’t like or maybe for attention. However, in Tibet, people greet one another by sticking…

ONE POTATO

Penny For Your Thougths By: Nancy Whitaker One potato, two potato, three potatoes, four. Remember playing that game? Also there was a game called Hot Potato. We can’t forget Mr. Potato Head, a game I think is still around. Of course instead of playing games with the name of  potato, I would rather just eat…

A QUAINT LITTLE TOWN

A Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker If you like watching old television shows, then the TV Channel TVland reruns old shows everyday. One of my all time old favorites is The Andy Griffith Show. The program airs from about 5 pm each day for a few hours almost every evening. When I look at Mayberry,…

BREAKFAST FOR SUPPER?

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Sitting here thinking about what I want for breakfast is always fun and interesting. My usual “go to” breakfast is either cookies, toast, Pop Tarts, eggs or hot cereal. I was always taught that breakfast was the most important meal of the day, especially the coffee. Yes, there…