Dear Reader:

Yesterday was a day for memories… celebrating family birthdays and soon-to-be weddings. These are times where we expect past memories to be triggered and pop up unexpectedly…but then sometimes it is the strangest things that take us back down memory lane.

It really was a fun day, all around, except that Mandy woke up sick…extremely dizzy…and was unable to go the tea room for Carrie’s  birthday luncheon for Doodle  or the Holy City Brewery for Tommy and Kaitlyn’s couples shower. I took Eva Cate to the luncheon and then Aunt Julie took her back home to Mt. Pleasant. Thanks Julie!

I love opportunities for the family to be together…because it seems that it gets rarer and rarer as time goes by. Eva Cate was dressed and ready to go three hours early. *Thank you Carrie for such a fun event.

Look at the cute butterfly plate Eva Cate received for her special meal from the menu!

*Important news for anyone out there who hasn’t heard…Eve, owner of Time Well Spent, is ‘closing up shop’ June 1. So hurry on over and get the delicious chicken salad, quiches, tea, salads, and pop-overs for as long as you can…for memory sake!

I followed Mollie to the Holy City Brewery where, like the cute invitation said…”Love is Brewing.”

It was so nice to put faces and names of some of Tommy and Kaitlyn’s friends together.

Especially Bristol, Kaitlyn’s former room mate who threw the party!

On this occasion ‘little bro’ is top dog!

Susan and Butch came down for the shower and we had a great time catching up and just hanging out!!!

Susan and I decided we need to learn the name of the young man officiating so we could make sure it was “official.”

Butch and the boys had fun playing physical games while the rest of us picked out the “perfect date” for Tommy and Kaitlyn.

Filled with warm memories I started back home around 5 yesterday, planning my itinerary on how to get home ( and avoid the festival crowd) as I went.

On Dorchester Road I pulled over into a gas station that had seen better days. After getting gas I went into the store to get some cough lozenges  and saw one single box of Luden’s Cough drops!!!!!!! (Almost impossible to find anymore!)

Memories flooded back! As a child these were the only cough drops I would take because they tasted like candy, not medicine!

And even now as an adult (with a minor sore throat) I reached for them again and happily sucked them all the way home!

Some memories are just as good as you remember! We just need to “bring them on home!”

So until tomorrow- the best memories are when we don’t realize we are making them…we are just having fun! That is what happened yesterday!

“Today is my favorite day” Winnie the Pooh