Marshmallow Peeps

I am curious. How many of you who are related to my mother inherited her love for marshmallow? She loved toasted marshmallows, marshmallow cream, mint dreams (with a mint marshmallow filling) and marshmallow peeps. I LOVE marshmallow peeps. Actually, I prefer the bunnies to the peeps and I only like the traditional colors of yellow and pink. I am never tempted to buy marshmallow peeps at other times of the year (ie. halloween peeps or snowman peeps.) Anyway, I always think of my mom at this time of year as I enjoy my marshmallow bunnies.

Another Journal Entry

It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted one of Carolyn's journal entries. I will remind you that Sara needed cataract surgery.

April 1, 1992 (she actually wrote 1922, but I am pretty sure she meant 1992)

Time is going too fast. It will soon be a year since we came to Manti.

We have had lots of company again Don and Kathy Lind were here a week ago. (Don Lind was an astronaut and one of Popi's best friends.) They stayed to Mon afternoon. I took Mother to have her eye done on thursday-Then John, Annette and Rebecca came on Sat this week-stayed til Sun night-Monday I tended the little girls (Katherine and Samantha) Then Tue Bill and Polly came It looks like now the weather is nice we will have more company.

Mother had her surgery on Thur-we came on home because we finished by 1:30-We went back the next day all is well now but she was slow to recover-It worried me because by Sunday she still could not see anything She has been blind in her right eye since she was in college. So when we operated on the left eye and took the sight from it with the swelling she was totally blind. Her cataract was so dense it was solid brown- It took 7X as much to get it out as normal so she was more swollen than usual. She is seeng better each day now.


What amazed me about this journal entry was that I never knew my grandmother was blind in her right eye. She NEVER mentioned it. She complianed about her feet-they hurt all the time-but in general she was not a person to complain. I asked Popi how she lost her sight, but he couldn't remember. I just find it ironic that my maternal grandmother was blind in her right eye, my father is blind in his right eye and I am blind in my right eye. I must say that Omi was an amazing and wonderful person.

My Movie Quiz.

Ok. I guess I want to play, too.

1. Say, that's a cute little dance you got there. It almost looks like you have to...Oh! Monsters Inc. Heidi

2. You are not exactly Superman, but you are awfully available. White Christmas. Annemarie

3. It looks awful.
That's because it's on you dear. Sleeping Beauty. Annemarie

4. I tried to forget you...I thought I had. Persuasion. Heidi

5. I thought you two had eloped. I wouldn't mind but not in my car. Sabrina. (old) Annemarie

6. This ballet has historic significance. It was performed the same day as the funeral of the Tzar. Lenin himself made the arrangement.
Lenin arranged music?
No, funerals. Bye, Bye Birdie. Pam

7. Did the dry cleaners have your car? Sabrina. (new) Heidi

8. Are we there yet?
We get there when we get there. Incredibles. Annemarie

9. Is it not a brother's job to find fault with his sister? Emma

1o. I've learned something from your idiotic notions, I confess that; humbly and gratefully. My Fair Lady. Carianne

11. If you're going to spend the whole evening acting like a scared rabbit, maybe I'd better order some lettuce. Hello Dolly. Carianne

12. I never read Tom Sawyer. Was he... sexy? Thoroughly Modern Millie. Annemarie

13. I can explain in two words: we propose to marry your daughters. Pirates of Penzance. Beckie

14. ...just possibly saving 120 passengers from a tragic firey death. What's up Doc. Annemarie

15. I don't like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me. North by Northwest. Beckie

My 4th Photo

This is at Sara's wedding shower. Carlye is sitting on her lap. We are at Susanna Winston's house. Carlye gave Sara the best gift at her shower. It was red animal scissors for the kitchen (I can't remember what the animal was, but they were from Target and they were really cool.) (I actually think this is a pretty good picture of me-not like usual.)

Family Ties

I loved having Heidi and her family come visit us a few weeks ago. There is something about family that just makes you happy. It is great to reconnect with family you haven't seen in a long time, but the love is the same as if we saw each daily. I loved Heidi's kids immediately and I was so impressed with how well behaved they were. Talking with Heidi made me miss Carianne because their laughs and expressions are so similar. I was surprised at how much Heidi reminded me of Carianne. Heidi's kids did not remind me of Carianne's kids. They are all different and all wonderful. Thank you for coming to see us Heidi.

Last week my cousin Nancy called and invited me to lunch. Nancy is Alice Ann's second daughter. Juliana, her oldest child, is my age and the one I always played with. Nancy lives here in Provo. She also invited my mother's cousin Christine and her daughter Lori to lunch. We had such a fun visit. We talked a lot about family members that are no longer with us. Christine's daugher, Debbie, was my age and we were good friends. Debbie lives in Payson. We all decided we need to have a bigger family reunion soon. Christine and her family lived in Ephraim and we spent a lot of time playing in their house. The house is on main street on the south side of town and is now a Credit Union. My family lived in Ephraim for one year in the late 1960's.

Lori told me that when we moved to Germany we left a lot of toys with her family. She loved all the Barbie dolls and the Creepy Crawler Thingmaker, but her favorite toy was my Troll Doll House. I LOVED that Troll Doll House. I was so happy to find out that it had been loved so much by another little girl. I looked on EBAY and, sure enough, you can still get a Troll Doll House. When you opened it there was a fireplace and furniture inside.

Anyway, I am always so thankful for my wonderful extended family.

Let There Be Peace on Earth

Today in Relief Society the lesson was about how Joseph Smith said we should make peace with those around us. (Yes, even those who would mock our sacred ordinances.) It was a good lesson and for the closing song we sang "Let There Be Peace on Earth." The teacher passed out papers with the words on it. Of course, I didn't need the words. I was sitting next to a young sister in her late 20s. As we were singing she leaned over to me and said "I have never heard this song before." I was shocked! When I was a teenager that was an extremely popular song. I don't often feel so old at church. I have often thought that once you are an adult in the church, age doesn't seem to mean much anymore. Not with this song!
I wondered how many of my daughters and nieces know the song. I would guess that perhaps Carianne does, but probably no one else.
I think it is a great song, but maybe the Miss America pageant has made "world peace" sound trite. Anyway, those are my thoughts-what do you think?
Another great song I heard recently goes, "I want to be happy, but I won't be happy, till I know you're happy, too."

I'm Back!

It is past time for me to post on my blog. I have especially felt bad that I haven't posted any of Carolyn't journal entries. When I posted in the past it seemed like the journal entries were close to the same date as in her journal. As I read through her journal to decide what to post next, I was all the way to March 18 before I found an entry that anyone would be interested in, so you get May 18, 1992 today. (She only wrote when she got her hair done-usually once a week, sometimes less.)

Mar 18, 1992

Mother has cataracts. We went to provo yesterday and She can't see at all out of her right eye and only minimal out the left-She will be operated on next thurs 24th-I sure hope all goes well. I think if she could see she would feel better. She can't even enjoy reading as it is.

Mark Walton was married last Sat here in the temple-Sharee and Dean-David and Kathy came Fri night we had a real nice Dinner and Visit. Then they stayed with us. I got up on Sat Set out fruit-muffins and cereal so they could eat breakfast. We had to be at the temple at 6AM. It was a busy day so we could not go to the wedding breakfast. When we got home at about 2pm They were all a our house-Sharee Dean-Wendy and Dean-David and Kathy-Raphael and Julia-I put out left overs we all visited and had fun they left about 4:30 we rested then went to orem to the reception. got home about 11pm Sat night We went to Richfield to church on Sunday Troy Brown (a missionary from the Texas San Antonio Mission-Arch and Carolyn knew him when they were serving in the Mission Presidency) was home from his mission-10 of us from the mission were there. It was nice-They had a big dinner after at the senior citizens-after we went to Raphael and Julia's and visited-

Monday we had Bob and Susannah for supper Bob's birthday-Susannah has a job at Snow college-

Spring is about here flowers are up crocuses are blooming-pansy's and daffodils but we had snow yesterday.