GinnyPNW
Master Chef
Happy Birthday CG! Hope your day is a great one!
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Happy Birthday CG! Hope your day is a great one!
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
Happy Birthday!
Marlingardener
Sous Chef
Happy birthday, and wishing you many more! Love your posts.
pepperhead212
Master Chef
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day, and a great year ahead! Stay safe!
Aunt Bea
Master Chef
CG,
Happy First Birthday back home!!!
Happy First Birthday back home!!!
Many, Many, Many
Happy Birthday Wishes
to You
Cooking Goddess!
msmofet
Chef Extraordinaire
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Happy Birthday!
pictonguy
Sous Chef
Happy B-day! 
Happy Birthday @Cooking Goddess. I hope you had and are having a great day. It must be nice to be celebrating at home again, after all these years. 
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Happy birthday to you, my friend! Hope you're having a wonderful day with your family! 
bethzaring
Master Chef
Happy Birthday CG!! Hope you had a wonderful day!
Kaneohegirlinaz
Wannabe TV Chef
Hauoli la hanau @Cooking Goddess - we haven't 'seen' you in a while ...
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
Hi Guys! Thanks for the birthday wishes. I had one kid at this table this year - Goober. Just offer him food and he shows up! 
He also has a day job, unlike Loverly and her hubby who work retail. Well, she and her gang were all here for Mom's day, and he was sick, so it all balances it out.
I spent weeks trying to decide what to do for "CG's Birth Week" celebrations. I kinda wanted to go to Granvillle OH to poke around and stay at one of their fine hotels. Nah, we won't do that. Besides, they market it "like New England in Ohio". Been there, done that IN New England. Then I was thinking of the different restaurants that we might want to pick from. Some were too fancy for my current wardrobe (Lowe's? Fine! Clothes shopping. Nah, I'll pass.). Some seemed a little too chi-chi - heavy on style, light on quantity. "You want how much for that one scallop on a puddle of something...green." Two days before I told Himself that I was going to go down to the butcher that raises and slaughters his own cattle and get us a couple of "hanging meat" steaks (for less per # than grocery steaks to boot) and that he could grill them. He did indeed grill them, I made salads, and we had that with baked potatoes. Easy-peasy. And delicious.
And each year, at the end of CG's Birth Week celebrations, everyone joins in the fun by shooting off fireworks! How nice!
He also has a day job, unlike Loverly and her hubby who work retail. Well, she and her gang were all here for Mom's day, and he was sick, so it all balances it out.I spent weeks trying to decide what to do for "CG's Birth Week" celebrations. I kinda wanted to go to Granvillle OH to poke around and stay at one of their fine hotels. Nah, we won't do that. Besides, they market it "like New England in Ohio". Been there, done that IN New England. Then I was thinking of the different restaurants that we might want to pick from. Some were too fancy for my current wardrobe (Lowe's? Fine! Clothes shopping. Nah, I'll pass.). Some seemed a little too chi-chi - heavy on style, light on quantity. "You want how much for that one scallop on a puddle of something...green." Two days before I told Himself that I was going to go down to the butcher that raises and slaughters his own cattle and get us a couple of "hanging meat" steaks (for less per # than grocery steaks to boot) and that he could grill them. He did indeed grill them, I made salads, and we had that with baked potatoes. Easy-peasy. And delicious.
And each year, at the end of CG's Birth Week celebrations, everyone joins in the fun by shooting off fireworks! How nice!
Kaneohegirlinaz
Wannabe TV Chef
@Cooking Goddess my DH's older brother celebrates Birthday Month
DH said that I should do the same ... does that mean that I get a gift each day of the month then?
DH said that I should do the same ... does that mean that I get a gift each day of the month then?
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
Well @Kaneohegirlinaz, if you do gifts, why not? We don't really do gifting anymore. Not birthdays, Christmas, "greeting card" holidays. When himself is allowed to free-range on a shopping trip, he'll come home with flowers for me sometimes. No occasion, just to be nice. I like those kinds of surprises better than holiday gifts.
Now this "no gift" thing does not apply to us giving gifts to our kids and son-in-law and grand kids. When it comes to buying things for them it's no-holds-barred. When one of the kids say "you're spending too much" I remind them that Dad and I are having so much fun seeing how they can use what we give them I'd rather spend now and leave less behind for them to inherit. Maybe that's why we get yelled at for being spendy with them...
Now this "no gift" thing does not apply to us giving gifts to our kids and son-in-law and grand kids. When it comes to buying things for them it's no-holds-barred. When one of the kids say "you're spending too much" I remind them that Dad and I are having so much fun seeing how they can use what we give them I'd rather spend now and leave less behind for them to inherit.
Maybe that's why we get yelled at for being spendy with them...
CG, have you read or heard of a book called "Die Broke"?
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
No, but it sounds like good advice to me!
After going through probate and inheritance "stuff" from Himself's and my parents estates, I'm now trying to figure out the best way that we can protect what we have so that the kids can benefit from whatever we don't use up. Probably will need to visit with an estate planner, but Himself is pretty good at finding most information. I could find it, too, but I'm not the one in the house that spends most of the day on my butt reading...
After going through probate and inheritance "stuff" from Himself's and my parents estates, I'm now trying to figure out the best way that we can protect what we have so that the kids can benefit from whatever we don't use up. Probably will need to visit with an estate planner, but Himself is pretty good at finding most information. I could find it, too, but I'm not the one in the house that spends most of the day on my butt reading...
