Wednesday Hodpodge~ September 17, 2025

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Hello friends!  I'm joining Joyce over at From This Side of the Pond for Wednesday's Hodgepodge. Each week, she hosts a weekly link-up that is a collection of questions for bloggers to answer. It's to help bloggers get to know each other better and have a little bit of fun! It's a great way to hang out with friends. So grab a cup of coffee or tea if you prefer and join in on the fun. 

So, what is a hodgepodge? A hodgepodge is an unorganized mixture of various things, a jumble of items that don't belong together. 

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

1.  Are you more the life of the party or more party pooper? If your answer is somewhere in the middle, which side of the middle do you lean towards more? 

I have to admit, I'm probably more of a party pooper. As I've gotten older, I don't mind a good party, but I tend to want to leave early. I get frustrated with too many people, and I'm more of a homebody now. Now, if I'm enjoying the party and I am having a good time, then I most definitely will stay. I'm quieter and reserved, so I don't think I've ever been the life of the party. 

Birthday party, beach party, cocktail party, dinner party, charity fundraiser, surprise party, costume party, garden party, Christmas party, reunion...what's your favorite kind of party? 

Christmas and birthday parties are the best! Christmas, well, it's Christmas. I love Christmas. I love baking and decorating. It's such a joyous and happy time. The only costume parties I ever went to were when I was in middle school. I had a friend who threw a party every year for our class. It was a lot of fun back then. 

2. Cheese, wine, and balsamic vinegar all improve with age. What would you personally add to the list? 

Maturity! Yes, there are exceptions, but I truly do believe that as we age and live, we experience more and our maturity grows. We've learned life's hard lessons. We experienced the ups and downs of life. We've seen goodness and badness. We've felt love and pain. The experiences we go through over the years shape us, mold us, and help us grow into the person we are today. If we let it, these journeys will help us mature and grow as a person. Or at least I hope they do. 

3. How do you feel about your birthday? How do you want to be celebrated? Or don't you? 

When I was little, I loved birthday parties. I loved having friends over and eating cake. Now at 51, I'd much rather do something simple. This past year, I went to a Lavender farm, and it was wonderful. The gardens were beautiful. I spent the day with my family, and I got two new plants for my garden. Definitely, no surprise parties...I hate them!

4. What remarkable feat, interesting piece of trivia, or historical event occurred on your birth day and month? Not necessarily your same birth year, just the same date/month. 

D-Day...the Allied Invasion of Normandy. I don't think anything else can really top that. Whenever I tell people my birthday, they immediately say D-Day. Well, the older people do. I don't get it too much from younger people. Maybe they don't know about it anymore. I was born really close to Uncle's birthday (3 days) and my grandfather's birthday (7 days).

5. Share two good things about your life right now. 

Well, the most exciting thing right now is I'm going to be a grandma. So that's huge! I'm looking forward to this journey. 

My hubby has been working on repairing and upgrading our covered porch. It needed it, so I'm excited to see the finished project when he's done!

6. I've been thinking of my late grandmother lately. It's probably because I'm going to be a grandmother soon. She passed away when I was 14, so she's been gone longer than I had her in my life. She was an amazing woman. Loving, caring, and always putting her family first. We lived with her and my grandfather when my parents were getting divorced. She was the glue for the family. I want to be that grandma. I want to spend time with my family. Cherish them. Play with the little ones. Bake cookies with them. I want my family to know that I love them and that they are the most important things in this world to me. I think we need to be more focused on our families and God during these difficult times. God and family first....my new motto to live by. 

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Till Next Time,

Monique