A Cheesy Wednesday Hodgepodge

A hodgepodge is a jumble or assortment of things that might not appear to belong together. Joyce at From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly link-up called Wednesday Hodgepodge that is a little collection of questions for bloggers to answer just for fun and to get to know each other. I always look forward to chatting with friends over coffee, so pour a cup of your favorite and let's visit for a few minutes!

Here are this week's questions - and my answers - for this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge.

1.  What do birthdays look like in your house? How are they celebrated? Any special traditions? What about birthdays growing up?

 

For the most part, birthdays are pretty low-key, celebrated with a few gifts or a special outing, and with a dinner chosen by the birthday person. It kind of depends on how many of us are together with the birthday person. When the kids were younger, I made the dinner that they requested for their birthday, but for my birthday we went out to a restaurant, and I got to choose. When I was growing up, I seldom had birthday parties, because my birthday is right after Christmas, but there were always presents, and my mom did the birthday dinner thing too. 

For the Share Our Lives link-up in May, we shared about how our families celebrate birthdays, so went into a bit more detail at Making Birthdays Special, but I cannot believe I forgot to mention one of our family's most special birthday traditions! It started way back when my husband and I were first married, I think, maybe even earlier, but really took off after we moved away from the rest of the family. We weren't together with my family for birthdays, so we would phone the birthday person and crowd around the phone and sing "Happy Birthday" together, but make it as ugly and ridiculous-sounding as we could manage. Goofy voices, weird timing, extra sound effects, questionable 'harmonies', and more. The goal was to make it more hilariously horrendous every time. This has gone on for about thirty years and now that I think about it, I wonder if my granddaughters even know how the song is meant to sound! 

 

 

2. Someone is sending you a dozen roses . . . what color are you hoping for? Are you someone who gets accused of seeing the world through rose colored glasses? Is your accuser correct? Elaborate.

If I'm getting roses, any color will do! If I have to pick, I think I'd want pink. Or lavender, although I don't see those very often. Although I tend to be an optimist, I don't think I'd be accused of having rose-colored glasses. I'm optimistic but mostly a realist. 

 3. June 4th is National Cheese Day . . . will you celebrate? What's something (besides a burger) you make in the summer months that calls for cheese?

 I love cheese and I'm pretty sure we'll wind up eating something cheesy today. We're heading to a baseball game tonight, and unless something else tempts me more, I'm planning to have pizza. I love simple cheese and crackers or a cheesy charcuterie selection in the summer. And of course, cheeseburgers.

4. 'tis the season . . . any weddings on your June calendar? What's the first word that comes to mind when I say marriage?

 No weddings that I'll be attending this June. An online friend is getting married this month, but I won't be able to make it for that wedding. First word that comes to mind . . . besides 'wedding' . . . is commitment. It takes commitment and partnership to keep the love that led to the engagement and wedding going strong so you can celebrate a lot of anniversaries.

 

5.  What are you most looking forward to this June?

 

 Gosh, I don't know. We haven't got any specific plans for the month so I guess just generally looking forward to nice weather and getting out to explore some of the parks and nature areas. Our daughter and her boyfriend are thinking they might come out for a visit sometime this month, so I would definitely be looking forward to that, but there's no date nailed down.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

This past weekend, hubby and I took a drive out to Springfield and visited the Frank Lloyd Wright house there, the Westcott House. We really enjoyed the tour and one really nice thing about this Wright house is that we were allowed to take photos INSIDE. 

As usual, here's the part where I invite you to check out the current Wednesday Quotes link-up. The theme right now is Telling Our Stories, and you're welcome to share a post with your stories and a quote or two. You can find it here: WQ - The Value of Our Stories

If more photos and fewer words appeals to you, you might be interested in my Everyday Images link-up. I do it every other Thursday, so look for that new link-up tomorrow.

What are you most looking forward to in June? Leave a comment and let me know!

I'm sharing in this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond.

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