Hettinger Happenings

Well, once a week we go out to eat. Our little date. Usually it's lunch, but tonight we went out for St. Patty's Day dinner. He always tells me little things I didn't know. Tonight he was telling me when we had a Mets player living in our house. Actually, it was my grandma's 1/2 of the house. His name was Ralph Terry and his wife and two boys. I guess my father saw an announcement on TV looking for housing for Mets players and he called. The baseball agents came to look at the house, and then Ralph Terry himself came. Finally they moved in for baseball season 1967. We were the most popular family in town, you can imagine. Boys would follow me home from school. They would stand outside our house waiting to get a glimpse of Ralph Terry or an autograph. Skipper and I had fun playing with the Terry boys. Boy they were crazy. They did things we weren't allowed to do, like jump on grandma's couch from the steps!! Did I mention he was a pitcher for

Enjoy this video. It's written by a mom and it's describing the "art" of a wise mom letting go. It's something I've not yet mastered entirely. I long for those Sundays when we would gather in the living room and we would just be silly. Or you would be silly and I would try to give a serious lessons. Or you would dance or sing or play the piano. Or we'd play Scrabble. Can't you guys just come back on Sundays??? I love you guys. Miss you all too much.

So, I would like us to be all together, especially since Bry and Kristie are going to be leaving soon for Utah. This might be our last chance for a little while. (I am trying not to cry!) Since we can't meet 1/2 way at Stacey and Jake's because they have house guests, I thought we could try for an amusement park. I thought we could meet on Friday, Hersey has that you enter the park for two hours the night before for free. Maybe we can even let the kids play at the indoor pool. Saturday we can spend at the park and Sunday we could have an Easter devotional and breakfast. Maybe we could even fit in an Easter egg hunt around the hotel for the kids. It is conference weekend. It would be nice to be able to catch it on our laptops. This is what I have come up with so far. Williamsburgh -- Busch Gardens -- I loved it, but it's a bit far for us to travel back on Sunday. And you all thought the roller coasters were just okay. HersheyPark -- is lovely. Good roller coaste

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin

If you can get dad a guitar and a cowboy hat and teach him this song - I would be in heaven....it is EXACTLY what I have been saying.....I thought I loved dad when fell in love and married him, but it is NOTHING to the way I feel about him now -- in 30 years, you'll know what I mean Then by Brad Paisley I remember, trying not to stare the night that I first met you You had me mesmorized And three weeks later, in the front porch light taking forty-five minutes to kiss goodnight I hadn't told you yet but I thought I loved you then And now you're my whole life now you're my whole world I just can't believe the way I feel about you, girl Like a river meets the sea, stronger than it's ever been. We've come so far since that day And I thought I loved you then And i remember, taking you back to right where I first met you, You were so surprised There were people around, but I didn't care Got down on one knee right there once again, I th