Coming home and finding the two cheesecakes that I ordered online at Cheesecake.com had been delivered was the highlight of my long hard day. The receptionist at work is off on maternity leave and they are having a hard time finding a temp to come in and take over for her until she comes back in a few weeks and we have all been doing what we can in order to keep the office running in her absence. It has a been a wake up call to us all on how much we all rely on her and how much she does each and every day and we are more than ready to have her come back and we will show her a lot more respect and less attitude after this experience.

Anyway, the only thing that I was asked to bring to Easter dinner this year is cheesecake. Last year I surprised everyone with one and it was a big hit and now it looks like it will be our Easter desert tradition, which is fine by me. I love cheesecake, any kind of cheesecake and cheesecake goes with just about everything.

Tonight I decided to cook something special for dinner I’d never tried before.  I cooked chicken cordon bleu, rice, peas, gravy, and dinner rolls.  We had company for dinner, so it was really nice to have something special like that turn out so good!  I’m getting to be a pretty good cook, if I say so myself!  I think cooking is actually quite a bit of fun, if you can get people to eat what you cook without acting like you’re trying to kill them!

Contribution by Stevie Kirby

My mom lives so far out in the country that she doesn’t have access to too many things. The closest grocery store is about 50 miles away from her house. I don’t know how she does it, but she loves it out there. I could never be that far away from convenience! The utility company doesn’t even offer internet connections out there, so she had to get wild blue satellite internet to keep in touch. I will never understand why after so many years of living in Chicago mom felt like she needed to move to the country. She raised my sisters and I to be city girls through and through, and then all of a sudden she was sick of the lifestyle. I’m supportive of her decisions as long as they make her happy. She comes to see us pretty often anyways, so the way I see it, she gets the best of both worlds. She has her peaceful country life, and then she can come and see her children and grandchildren in Chicago whenever she wants to get back to the faster pace.

March means a lot of things to me, such as the new day to set your clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time, the first day of Spring, March 20, and my brother’s birthday today. I always call my brother on his birthday to check on him and wish him a happy birthday.

Today when I called, he was all excited about some tickets to a basketball game. For a lot of people, I guess the month of March only means, March Madness as the college teams all fight for their rankings at the end of their season.

There has been a lot of talk and buzz about fighting bullying. So many kids are falling victim to bullies at school. We can all do our part by speaking out against bullying and helping our kids realize that they are special and not victims.