AuburnChick's Adventures

Hello friends! It’s kind of hard to believe that we are already a week into October. I have a feeling this season is going to fly by – especially after a rather slow summer.

Heck, each week seems to fly by, and I always sit in amazement on Sundays when Joyce posts her questions for her weekly Hodgepodge. I tend to write most of my week’s posts each Sunday afternoon after I’ve finished meal prepping for the week.

Anyhoo, enough with all of the intro stuff. Let’s get to my answers. Thanks, as always, for visiting and leaving your sweet comments.

1. ‘The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.’ How does this saying ring true in your own family, either the one you grew up in or the one you made? 

Oh goodness, but as I mulled over this question, I couldn’t help but think that we are often products of our environment, which includes the families we grew up in, so it’s easy to select many ways in which the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

I’ll focus on the family God has allowed me to create through my marriage.

My daughter is incredibly organized – almost to the point of being a little OCD (she’s me to the nth degree). She researches the heck out of every aspect of her life, including (and especially) where it comes to childrearing. Shes also frugal and will drive over an hour away to snatch up a great deal from a seller on Facebook Marketplace.

My son has a quick wit, like my husband, and he’s interested in all things sports and politics-related. He’s very tender hearted and a wonderful provider for his family. He also bleeds orange and blue for our beloved Auburn Tigers.

2. Something you’re nuts about these days? How about something that’s driving you nuts? 

I’m nuts about my word games these days – especially the Quartiles game.

I was fortunate to find all of the words three days in a row last week. The Mr. and I are very competitive.

What is driving me nuts right now is the way people are taking snippets of news items and using those out-of-context bits to fuel discord. people have gotten lazy. They refuse to think on their own, go back and look at context, and frame informed opinions.

I’ve seen this happen on all sides of all issues. I’m just so disheartened right now.

3. What does abundance mean to you? 

Abundance means having more than what I need to subsist. I am so undeserving of the abundance of blessings God has showered upon me. This abundance leads me to an attitude of deep gratitude to the One who loves me and provides for me.

4. Caramel apple-caramel cake-caramel corn-caramel sundae-caramel macchiatto…what’s your caramel treat of choice? 

Back in my non-vegan days, I’d take a caramel cake. When the Mr. and I started dating, and after we were married, we would eat lunch at his grandparents’ house. Mary worked for them. She cooked like nobody’s business. I loved her caramel cake, which she made with the thinnest layers that oozed with homemade caramel in between. She took great care in preparing one of these cakes each time we visited. I miss her so much.

5. What’s a childhood memory that always comes to mind as the leaves start to fall? 

I always remember the smell of burning leaves during fall. We lived in the country and had to get rid of them. I love this smell to this day.

6. My Random Thought

It’s funny how something seemingly inconsequential makes you think deeply about a bigger thing in life.

October 1st was the day that Amazon officially started tightening its rules on shared access of Prime accounts.

My daughter has used our account for many years. She orders the most out of any of us, let me tell you.

Last month, we told her about the new family plan, and that she was going to have to get her own account. Each family plan will only allow for two adults living in the same household, and she was odd woman out. Lol.

So she did, and we got a message notifying us of that.

Y’all, it kind of made me sad. It was another of those mile markers reminding me of the passage of time.

I don’t care what she orders. I never got in her business and looked. But seeing her get her own family account just reminded me that she’s got her own wonderful little life, and I’m sitting up here getting older.

I’m a little in my feelings. I think this season does that to me. It’s hard to live halfway between my kiddos’ homes when all I want to do is wrap my arms around my babies, hold them in my lap again, and sing the worship songs I used to sing to them before I put them to bed each night.

Okay. As my friend, Barb, would say. You’ve had your five minutes to cry. Let’s move on now.

Y’all have a wonderful week!

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