Peanut Butter Pie with no Regrets

Today has been a day for pies. Not just any pies though. Today was a day for Peanut Butter Pie.

Jennie over at In Jennie’s Kitchen lost her husband, Mikey, very suddenly due to a heart attack. She has not only lost her husband and love of her life, but the father of her 2 little girls. :’(

Comments have been pouring into her blog asking what people can do for her, because everyone who reads her story is just heartbroken over her loss, and we all wanted to reach out and help take some of the pain away, even if it’s only for a little bit.

 

Jennie’s response to everyone was simple.

Bake a Peanut Butter Pie in honor of Mikey.

It was his favorite pie.

So that’s what everyone did. Take a look at the number of pies that were made today in honor of Mikey!

 

From reading her post asking everyone to make a pie for Mikey, I realized something. Too often do we put important things off for “tomorrow” because it will get done “eventually”. Unfortunately for some of us, “tomorrow” never comes. I have so many regrets with my mom. There are recipes that will forever be lost because, unless by some miracle, I doubt I’ll ever come across them.

I also regret never being able to move out of the typical “mother/teenage daughter” relationship that we had, where we both basically got on each others’ nerves. I so desperately wanted the relationship that my sister’s had with her. Talking everyday on the phone, being friendly, etc. But it was hard for mom and I because we lived together.

I never got the chance to be an adult in my mom’s eyes.

 

So, now I ask you guys. Don’t make the same mistakes.

That dinner recipe your mom/dad/husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend absolutely loves? Don’t shove it off because your busy. Put in the extra effort and make it tonight.

Those cookies that your grandma/grandpa/niece/nephew adore? Go out of your way to make it for them. Maybe even let them help!

The cupcakes that your best friend loves you to make them when they’re having a bad day? Make them when they aren’t having a bad day.

 

Live your life to the fullest.

Live your life with no regrets.

Because you never know what tomorrow may bring.

My World of Warcraft Backstory

As many of you know, I am an avid World of Warcraft player. I started playing in December of 2005, when I was a Sophomore in high school. My then-boyfriend and his best friend were downloading free trials of WoW, and I decided to join them because I remembered that my sister, Carrie, and her husband, Jeff, also played. So after a ridiculously long download on our AT&T DSL (darn wireless internet), I was finally in the game.

I started on the Draka server as a Night Elf Rogue. My then-boyfriend also rolled a Night Elf Rogue, and his best friend rolled a Night Elf Druid. After Carrie found out I had downloaded the free trial, she said we should restart characters on her server, Khadgar, so we did. I was still so in awe of everything in the game, I mean, I had never played anything like this.

Ever.

I was a computer gamer, but I played The Sims, SimCity, SimTower, SimCopter

(see a trend here? lol)

It took me forever to convince my parents to let me get my first gaming console (Nintendo Gamecube, yeah I was kinda behind on the whole “console” gaming LOL).

Anyways!! Point being I was a total and COMPLETE n00b. Seriously. It was so bad. Don’t believe me, here’s an example…

Individual Gorgonzola Beef Wellingtons

June 11th of this year was a really hard day for my family. It would have been my parent’s 45th wedding anniversary. If mom had been able to make it to June, we were going to throw a big party for them, as if it had been they’re 50th, because we knew mom wasn’t going to live to see their 50th. Unfortunately, mom didn’t make it to their 45th. She passed away 4 months shy of it. So, in honor of the anniversary, and the party we would have had, Dad, Carrie and I went out to a really really nice dinner.

We each ordered fabulous appetizers:

From LtoR: Kobe Chili with Filet and Corn Bread, Mini Beef Wellingtons, Scotch Eggs

And an amazing entree:

Filet Mignon and Softshell Crab Cake Oscar, served over Mascarpone Mashed Potatoes

Carrie and Dad had wine and I had a mixed drink.

We talked about the past.

We talked about the future.

We talked about mom.

We cried.