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Time's Changed....

While doing my morning walk earlier today I was watching, what else but the 'Today' show. They're celebrating one of the hosts' birthday. There were a lot of guests as well as foods, even a grill inspired birthday cake. But those weren't the ones that caught my attention while I was watching. It's the glass, rather, jars that the hosts used to sip on their drinks. I think they're called mason jars. Why did that catch my attention? Growing up, we also used mason jars as our drinking glass. Not because it was the 'in' thing back then but because we couldn't afford to buy regular drinking glasses. True story. I was hesitant to invite friends/classmates back then because our plates were not the matched sets and, yes, because we drank from mason jars. Today, they're used at fancy restaurants...here in a first world country. They're also used in some restaurants back home now because I saw a lot of pictures in social networks. The same is t

Lucky 13

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We survived the 13-year mark of our union! Yay! LOL... It will be 13 years this weekend since that picture of us holding hands was taken. We took it ourselves to signify the start of our life together. A lot has changed since that day. For one, there is now a third hand that we both hold tight...that of our little one. Also, those 2 hands have more wrinkles now and the rings, well, they've seen better days. But we're still wearing those same old rings up to this day. Mine are exactly the same while that of the husband had to be re-sized because it 'shrunk'. I guess that's what 13 years does to a ring....it shrinks! Or does it? Hmmm.... Anyway, it's been a great 13 years that 'spawned' [hehe] a great human being. Some days are harder than the others but there are definitely more 'good' days than bad ones. We're still the same goof balls that we were when we first met...only older goof balls. It's been 13 years of learning the ropes of