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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

BREAKFAST FROM HEAVEN

TRUE STORY - I KID YOU NOT
This happened to me last year and it happened exactly how I tell it here.
IT WAS EARLY MORNING LAST SCHOOL YEAR AND
I WAS HUNGRY AND BUSY.
WHILE CROSSING FROM ONE OF MY SCHOOLS TO THE OTHER
I WAS REMEMBERING HOW WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL
DAD WOULD ALWAYS MAKE ME BREAKFAST.
I WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVED 
COFFEE AND CRACKERS 
AND HOW DAD WOULD DO IT SO GOOD MAKING SURE
HE SMASHED JUST ENOUGH CRACKERS INTO MY COFFEE.
AS I CROSSED THE STREET I MADE A MENTAL NOTE
THAT I WOULD BUY MYSELF SOME OF THOSE CRACKERS
HE USED TO USE, THE PREMIUM KIND WITHOUT
SALT ON THE TOP, JUST LIKE I LIKED WHEN I WAS LITTLE.
I DECIDED TO GO TO THE TEACHERS LOUNGE 
AND SETTLE FOR JUST A CUP OF COFFEE.
I OPENED THE DOOR OF THE LOUNGE AND
THERE ON THE TABLE, IN A LOUNGE WHERE NO ONE
EVER LEAVES FOOD, WAS AN UNOPENED BOX
OF THOSE SAME PREMIUM CRACKERS
THAT I WAS DREAMING ABOUT!!!!!
I HAD TO SIT DOWN WITH TEARS IN MY EYES.
I WAS SO OVERWHELMED BY THIS MIRACLE.
YES, IT WAS A MIRACLE AND TO THIS DAY
I DO NOT KNOW WHO BROUGHT THOSE CRACKERS
YET I HAVE NO DOUBT IT WAS 
BREAKFAST FROM HEAVEN.

 Of course, I had to scapbook the miracle.
The picture is of the page I made, the title?
thanks a latte' Dad for breakfast from heaven.

11 comments:

  1. You received a box of crackers and another one of our siblings says she received a fish. Huh who is the faverate here. (LOL)
    LUV-U
    Peer

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  2. I remember those days so well. Crackers and butter with coffee and posee (jelly). It is hard to believe that Poppie has been gone for so long. I miss him so much!! I have so many good memories of him, and wish he could still be here so see my girls. I wish he could have been at my wedding to dance with me like he promised, but I know one day we will all be together. Sometimes I think about that and can't wait to one day have that dance he promised!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH, POPPIE!!!
    lOVE YOU ALL,
    Tie

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  3. Can you believe that I don't like to fish???!!! The fish can be jumping in the boat at the camp and I won't even throw out a line. That was a big fish, Pete, and I caught it the Saturday after we buried Daddy, at a time when there was absolutely no fish biting!!! I'm sure my feeling, at that time, was the same as Lil seeing that box of crackers, like..."WOW, I COULD'VE HAD A V-8" (LOL) Even though I had it mounted, time got the best of it and I had to throw it away several years ago..it was a hard thing to do. I can remember Daddy waking me up so freaking early in the morning to go fishing and I'd say, "No, Daddy, I'm tired, I don't wanna go fishing today". He'd say, "OK, Beb, you go back to sleep and I'm gonna catch all the fish by myself today." A few minutes later, he was BACK in my room with a bag of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies from Dufrene's Bakery, my ultimate favorite, and he would shake the bag by my nose...ssshhhsss...what's a girl to do??? Of course, I got my tired little butt out of bed and went fishing just so that I could eat those cookies on the way to Catfish Bay, or is it Lake??
    Now, EM and Aleena, if you REALLY want to hear about some of my "Vera" moments, then you must, must talk to Aunt Rosie. I'll bet you $10 right now that she won't be able to finish a story without laughing so hard that she'll pee her pants!!!

    Now..."THOSE WERE THE DAYS"!!!HEHEHEHE

    Love,
    C

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  4. Hey, I don't pee in my pants anymore!!! I told you you need to have a hystorectomy (might have needed to check my Funk & Wagnals on that one, but I think I got the spelling right) and a bladder lift at the same time. It's been 5 years since I have had to hold my legs together when I laugh or cough or sneeze. It's the answer, I'm telling you. But, getting back to C's Vera moments.....I'll have to think about my best one (cause there are so many!) to share with ya'll. As far as the fishing trips, I probably got to go fishing with Dad more than any of you and I loved every minute of it. That's where me and Dad bonded. I can remember telling Dad some mornings that I knew he was going fishing "Dad, I don't feel good, I don't think I can go to school. I think I'm gonna throw up." Dad would say, okay, Rosanna, but you are staying in bed all day if your sick. And I would put my head down on his lap and say "okay, Daddy", sucking up to him the whole time. I knew how to get to him! He would fix Celena and Lilly their breakfast of coffee and crackers and send them off to school. As soon as they were out of site, he would turn around to me and say "Get the icechest and the fishing lines and put them in the boat. I know that's why you didn't want to go to school today." Then, I'd jump up (realizing now he knew I wasn't sick) and yell yippee!!!! So many great times me and Daddy had fishing and trawling. I can remember trawling in one of Dad's little boats and we would pull up the shrimp net and see all those beautiful shrimp, diffrent kinds of lil fish, crabs. I used to take the blow fish and put my mouth to its mouth to see how big I could blow it up. Gross, right. Not for me, it was great. But, some of the most treasured memories was when we would be pulling the trawl net for about 1/2 hour or 45 min to 1 hour (depending on Dad's expertise opinion on how long we should drag the trawl that day), I would take the fish that we had threayed (sifted) through and the seagulls would follow us. I could hold one of those fish up in the air and seagulls would come eat the fish out of my hands. Now, when I was little, that to me, was a gift from GOD and my DAD! Thank you Daddy for all the great times we had together. I miss you so much and I am so sorry that we missed being with you through so many years. I know you were with us, but we couldn't be with you and to this day, I still feel that wasn't fair. You were such a great Father in MY eyes and I think you deserved to be here longer. Speaking of fishing trips and Vera stories, C.... Shall I tell the one about when you almost got your head chopped off by Dad with the boat cover????? That was one of the funniest that I can remember right now. I do believe that was probably you and Lilly's last fishing trip with the "Big Man". HaHaHaHaHa....... Thank God for that Bladder lift or I would have to go change my draws right now, cause I'm laughing my bootie off. Thankfully, I am alone here at my office, or they would probably call the man in the white coat to come get me. By the way, would someone please e-mail me @ rosie@cheramielaw.com & let me privately know what ya'll are referring to LOL as? I know it as Lots of Love, but it is NOT being used in that context here????? Enlighten me, please! I'm Going fishing, I mean to lunch..... Ya'll have a great one, and Thanks again, Lil for this great site to share!!!! Oh yea, I told you yesterday, Lil that I was gonna post a family trivia question for you and C, well here it is. One day when Dad was fishing, Mom was at work at Randolph's in the front and I was BABY sitting you two tattle tale brats, what was it that we tried to cook and turned into a disaster. One disaster of which we had to try to clean up before Mom or Dad got home (unsuccessfully, I might add)??????????????? Can ya'll guess. We had a couple of kitchen incidents, but this was the best, I mean worst. Think hard and try to figure it out. Let me know if ya'll do?
    LOL
    Rosie

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  5. oh I remember it like it was yesterday!!!!
    It was Mardi Gras beads and it exploded on the kitchen floor and you had us scraping it up with a butter knife and we couldn't stop. How old do you think I was then?
    It may have been colors but I am almost sure it was Mardi Gras beads.
    LOL means Laugh Out Loud...
    and hysterectomy is spelled this way,so much for your Funk and Wagnalls....
    I remember the boat cover story and oh, the blow fish, Dad always saved some for us girls to blow into when he got home... how fun was that, kids today probably don't even know what a blow fish is, lets ask the little ones....

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  6. Lil, you are absolutely right!!!! You win the family trivia question of the day. Not fair though, C's not able to get online right now. C, don't cheat, did you remember before you read Lil's comment?? If ya'll remember, WEEEEE were trying to make medallians. We melted them in a round mold, let them cool off, put a hole in it and pass a string through the hole, tie the string and it made a necklace. I don't think I saw the light of day for many weeks after that one and probably couldn't sit very well either, but if you ask me, it was worth it!!!!!!!!! HaHaHaHa

    Well, little ones do ya'll know what a blow fish is and have any of you ever seen one or touched one, or even better, blown one up. I mean literally BLOWN one up, as in exploding. What a BLAST!!!!!!!
    Love,
    Aunt Rosie

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  7. oh, by the way, thanks for the heads up on the LOL!
    Love Ya
    Rosie

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  8. Oh, yes, I remember that like it yesterday, too, and yes, it was Mardi Gras beads that we were trying to make into necklaces...probably to sell!! Remember when we stole all of the sale flyers from the Lafourche Gazette and went door to door to try and sell them...HAHAHAHAHA!!!
    I also remember when Rosie tried to fix biscuits for me and Lil and she BLEW HERSELF UP trying to light the oven!!! Those darn blow fish have nothing on Aunt Rosie, Kiddos!!!! SHE'S A BLAST...HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

    I'm Baaaccckkkk!!!HAHAHAHAHA

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  9. Hey, the oven blowing up in my face was totally an accident. You see, the truth about that story is that Dad had actually lite the oven to cook us bisquits, but when he closed the oven door, the fire went out. Sooooooo, when I came to lovingly fix you and Lil bisquits the gas had been escaping the whole time, but I DID NOT KNOW THAT!!!!!!!!!!!! And, yes C you are right. That was a blast of another kind. Kinda like a painful blast. I at least have an excuse for being ugly......what's ya'lls. HaHaHa LOL LOL LOL!!!! C, I'm sorry, but I don't remember trying to sell the Lafourche Gazette flyers. That must have been you and Lil and I have a feeling it was your idea. Don't know why, but it kinda sounds like a Vera move????
    Love all ya'll lots,
    Rosie

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  10. hey, hey, hey I never tried to sell flyers with C I knew at an early age that the lafourche gazette was free,

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  11. Ya, but Lil, C had a way of talking you into things sometimes. And......most of the time, I got blamed for it. Anyway, C how much money did U make??????????
    Love Ya'll
    Rosie

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