Patti Lechner’s Blog

Hi!  Welcome back to my blog.  I want to take this opportunity to introduce you to my dear husband’s new blog site:  annfurthermore.com   His life long dream has been to be a cartoonist.  He has posted some of his newest creations on his blog and he wants lots of people to see them.  They are quite cute actually.  So, do me a favor (& him) and visit annfurthermore.com   Oh, and leave him a comment of encouragement while you are there!  Thanks!

Here I am with my dear husband at a ball in South Africa.

My four sisters took me to breakfast yesterday for my birthday.  We always have such fun when we get together and Saturday was no exception!   As usual, the birthday girl was lavished with presents galore.  (Is that redundant?)  Included in my “stash” were some of my favorite things:  coffee, dark chocolate, and frogs.  They were especially generous with the dark chocolate.  If I didn’t know better I would think they are trying to fatten me up!  By the way, did you know dark chocolate is good for you?  I got a package of Dove chocolates named “Vitalize” that has “energy releasing B vitamins…plus plant sterols to help promote a healthy heart”.  I should be really healthy by the time I finish eating all my chocolate.  Which could take me at least 6 months.  (Those of you that know me best will understand what I mean by that.)  It was a fun morning and I took pictures to share with you.  I hope you enjoy them.

Here we are at Cracker Barrel

YUM! (The little round chocolates are pomegranate.)

To add to my frog collection. (The one w/the crown is a card.)

The blue mug and the mug with the "P" I received from friends earlier.

Believe it or not, the pictures don’t include all the gifts they gave me.  Like I said, It was quite a stash.  I feel very loved and….I love my sisters!

If you live in the CSRA you may think I am going to talk about the Thanksgiving meals prepared and delivered to needy families by area churches.  I’m not.  The dinner of love I’m referring to is the dinner my sweet husband, Don, prepared tonight for my birthday.  To really understand how special that is, you have to know a little about him.  He is, I guess you would say, culinary challenged.  He hates (and I do mean hates) cooking.  To him, warming leftovers in the microwave is cooking.  I had to teach my sons, at an early age, how to cook so they could prepare a meal if I was going to be away.  (That’s no joke.)  However….Tonight Don prepared an entire meal for us.  He went to the store, bought all the food, and then baked the lasagna, washed the lettuce & tomatoes & boiled the eggs for the salad, and baked Texas Toast.  (He did ask Jonathan to grate the eggs & cut up the vegetables for the salad and my daughter-in-law to bake a cake.)  He even bought me a personal size vegetable lasagna! THEN…after the meal he cleaned up the dishes!  Now how’s that for a dinner of love?   My sons & daughter-in-law added to the dinner of love with their sweet gifts.  (I received $90.00 in Starbucks gift cards, plus other gifts.)  PLUS…Don bought me a bouquet of flowers.  I feel really loved right now.   It’s been a great day!   

Blowing out my candles