The Mom Weekly Volume 40: May 7
Notes:
I especially enjoy these birthday “from the vault” posts. This tells the story of how I started calling Dad “Sir.” Note that the abbreviation “dh” means “dear husband.” I’m not sure if that kind of shorthand is used anymore among the cool kids, but it was “all the thing” back in the day. It was “dh” for dear husband, “dd” for dear daughter, “ds” for son, etc.
Also, the expression “God grant him many years, God grant him many years, God grant him many blessed years” is an Eastern Catholic expression. You may remember singing it when he have attended Byzantine and other Eastern Catholic liturgies. I couldn’t find the exact tune to the one, but this one is close.
One other note: I have pre-scheduled some newsletters, since the UK hiking advance team will be traveling and exploring the next few weeks. 🙂
Remember how much I love you (and Dad!),
Mom
From the Vault: Happy Birthday, Dear Sir (May 2007)
We have our tradition of birthday week in our family. It will be enlisted, and has already been enlisted, to celebrate dh Sir’s birthday today. We returned just a few hours ago from a week with family “back East” and I didn’t get the chance yet to make my traditional birthday pie for him (he prefers pie to cake). Fortunately his mother had a beloved strawberry shortcake for him when we were in NJ over the weekend, and one of his brothers brought a chocolate-raspberry cake from NYC to NJ on Sunday. One of our wedding cake layers was chocolate-raspberry, so that was a kind of early anniversary present for next week.
Sir loves the ocean, and so I chose this photo of him from this weekend (a cold windy morning pilgrimage with kids to the ocean) for his birthday photo.
I started calling dh “sir” after he bristled when we were first married at various sweet-sounding endearments. For some reason, he especially disliked “honey.” I can still hear us laughing about it, and me asking, “well, what should I call you then — sir?” and he said: “That sounds good.”
People would give me a look when I inadvertently called him “sir” in public, but now enough of our friends know the story to laugh with us, too. I started doing it as a joke, and all these years later it has stuck, in public and without apology. To me, it does sound like an endearment.
It is too late and I am too sleepy from the long trip back to do proper justice to all the good that he does and is. We have our differences, and our frustrations with one another, but I love him dearly. God grant him many years, God grant him many years, God grant him many blessed years.
Interesting/notable:
“Spelling pronunciations”
What are muscle knots?
Sourdough Recipes
I read a recent article about making sourdough bread, and several unusual recipes were shared of ways to use sourdough for things other than bread. It made me think I “might” want to try one of these. Anyone want to talk me out of it?
King Arthur Sourdough Chocolate Cake
The Pioneer Woman Sourdough Naan
An action item: Schedule your annual check-up
When you kids were little, we were at the pediatrician all the time. (Dr. B.’s “Does Big Bird have ears?” As he looked in your ears Is such a fun memory). Not because you kids were sick, but because there are innumerable milestone appointments for vaccinations, sports physicals, and yearly checkups. And now that Dad & I are older, we are very good about scheduling our annual physicals, mostly because the office schedules them for you before you leave your current appointment.
But when you’re a young person who’s relatively healthy, it’s easy to let those go by the wayside. But I’m going to encourage you to do so, just to have a reliable primary care provider. And that way, if something does go wrong, or you need to get in to the doctor for something, you have a connection already.
If you’ve done a yearly checkup recently, do you need a dentist appointment? What about an eye appointment? Take a minute this week to make at least one appointment that is due or overdue.
What are you doing this weekend?
So, now that it’s Tuesday, what are you planning for the weekend? I’m going to suggest trying to cover four “F”s to get ideas flowing:
*faith—when are you going to Mass?
*friends—what friends will you see or connect with?
*food—any fun recipes you plan to try, or restaurants you plan to visit?
*fun—anything interesting you are going to play, watch, or do this weekend? Now’s the time to think it through, and put it on the calendar (even informally).