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10 on the 10th 02.2022

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Happy Thursday, ladybugs, and welcome to 10 on the 10th 02.2022.  For today’s edition we are sharing the answers to 10 questions about LOVE.  My sweet blogging buddy Marsha from Marsha in the Middle came up with these questions which makes them more fun for me to answer.  There’s not a lot of challenge required to answer questions I’ve made up myself!!  Marsha and I are new friends and are co-hosting the 10 on the 10th series this year.  It’s so nice to have some help with this series.

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10 on the 10th 02.2022

 

10 on the 10th: 02.2022

 

Let’s jump right in with a look at Marsha’s thoughtful questions.

10 on the 10th 02.2022

 

Love Stories
  • What was something you absolutely loved about 2021?   The birth of my grandson, Declan Ashraf.  We can’t get over his light hair and blue eyes.

grandson

  • Do you have an interesting love story you’d like to share?  Please do!  Paul and I met on Match.com.  He contacted me after seeing my profile.  He likes to tease that my photo was blurry.  But he is right, it was!! However, his wasn’t much better.  Can you say pixelated?? Hopefully, he would have contacted me anyway, though!!  We wrote back and forth for 2 days, then PC asked to meet me for dinner at Applebees.  The first thing we said to each other was a comment about how blue the other’s eyes were.  After dinner, Paul walked me to the car and I asked for a hug.  Wanted to see how he felt.  He passed the test and the rest is history.  We dated for 5 years, though, before pulling the trigger and getting married.
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Our profile pics from Match.com.
Things I Love
  • What food do you love and must have on a regular basis?  Aside from my love for soup, which I wrote about here, I would say salad.  And ice cream.  Many days when I am home, I fix a baby spinach salad for lunch.  I add a boiled egg, some cheese crisps, croutons and dried cranberries.  Mmmm.  Have discovered Skinny Girl salad dressings and they are all very good.  Ice cream.  Well, what’s not to love…except the calories.
  • What fashion “trend” do you love?  It doesn’t even have to be a current trend.  I have really enjoyed wearing kimonos over the last few years.  They are the perfect wrap for most days here in El Paso.  And can be dressed up or down.  Have joined the shacket fan club, too.  Have 3 shackets.  This is my latest shacket purchase.  It is a little shorter in length and looks less like I am wearing PC’s hand-me-down flannel shirt.

shacket

  • Which season do you love most?  Why is it your favorite?  I tend to love whatever season is coming next.  Which means I love them all.  That being said, fall is the best of the best.  Probably because the colors are some of my favorites.  Halloween, Dia de los Muertos and Thanksgiving are special family holidays, too.  And the weather.  El Paso is especially lovely in autumn.
Love You, Daddy
  • If you could be with a loved one who has passed, who would it be and what would you do?  My first choice would be my father.  I would gather my 4 grandchildren, his great grandchildren, 3 of whom he has never met, and we would all go to Barnes & Noble.  My father loved to take his kids and his grandchildren to the bookstore.  We would drink hot chocolate and read books and snuggle.  All except baby Declan who would have a bottle instead.  The photo below was taken on my last trip to B&N with my father before his death in 2012.

  • What would you love to accomplish in 2022?  Writing.  Getting down on ‘paper’ some of the crazy things that have made my life interesting.
  • Which do you love most:  shoes, handbags, belts, or coats?  Unless kimonos are coats, I like shoes best.  But I have some feet pain issues these days so buying and wearing shoes isn’t as fun as it used to be.
Of These Things Love is the Greatest
  • What love remains with you today?  Love of family, children and animals.  Art and books, too.
  • How do you show your love?  What is your love language?  I show my love in word and deed.  I try to use loving language, touch, and actions to show that I love someone.  Not sure what my love language is in this season of life.  It has always been physical touch and words of affirmation in my younger years.  Just now retook the quiz, here, and it indicated that spending quality time with my loved ones is most important to me now, coming in at 30%.  Then physical touch, words of affirmation and acts of service tied for my second love language, each with 23%.  Receiving gifts did not rate.

love language

Those questions were fun, don’t you think?  Thanks, Marsha!!

 

Before You Go

 

Mark your calendars for our next 10 on the 10th link up.  Here are the questions.

  • List your favorite thing about spring.  Which season do you like best?
  • What puts spring in your step?  What does your favorite pair of shoes look like?  When do you wear them?
  • Around St. Patrick’s Day we see invitations to ‘kiss me, I’m Irish’ on graphic tees and images everywhere.  Are you Irish?  If not, what would your graphic tee read?  ‘Kiss me, I’m…”
  • What flowers would make up your perfect spring bouquet?  What is your favorite floral fragrance?
  • Spring cleaning?  A necessary evil or overrated?  What’s your favorite cleaning tip?  Cleaning product?
  • Slinkies are coiled spring toys.  Did you ever have a Slinky?  Silly Putty?  What was your favorite toy as a child?
  • When we ‘spring forward’ on March 13, what do you hope to do in that extra daylight?
  • The following colors will be trending for spring soft lilac, canary yellow, hot pink, salted caramel, scarlet, sky blue.  Will you be styling any of these?  Is there a color you will avoid?
  • What will you be reading this spring?  Do you have a favorite devotional or quiet time routine?
  • Share an inspirational thought or spring quote.  Why does this speak to you?

And here is the graphic.

10 on the 10th 02.2022

Your Turn

 

How would you respond to these questions?  Hope you will put together a 10 on the 10th post to do just that!!  Think link it up with us below.  Or answer the questions in a comment.

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Thanks for the visit, sweet friends.  Off to sub again on Thursday and then doing my dog-walking on Friday.  Cami and Cia are coming to play on Saturday.  And I hope to heavens to get my bootie back to church on Sunday.  What do you have planned?

Joining my friend Denyse for her #LifeThisWeek link up.  Her theme – Love is… and this post seems to fit right in.

Hugs and kisses,

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    I am an aspiring blogger and children's author, wife, mother, daughter, sister, - in-law, responsible pet owner and recently retired elementary school librarian. I hope to figure out the next chapter of my life as I transition from crazy, busy work world onto totally idle retirement and now to something in-between.

    Comments

    1. Deb

      February 10, 2022 at 1:39 am

      Great answers! It’s always fun to learn a few new random facts about people on these link ups.

      Reply
    2. Kellyann Rohr

      February 10, 2022 at 3:23 am

      What fun to read about how you and Paul met and to see those profile pics. I can only imagine now that everyone has such highly filtered and edited photos on dating apps that they hardly look real. But even blurry, PC could see what a beauty you were!
      Wouldn’t it be nice to spend the day with your dad and grandkids at B&N? A beautiful thought – and that baby Declan and those blue eyes – I die!!!
      xo,
      Kellyann

      Reply
    3. Maria Khan

      February 10, 2022 at 4:23 am

      Great Post! Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

      Reply
    4. Lisa Elliott

      February 10, 2022 at 4:37 am

      I enjoyed your love story!!

      Reply
    5. Dara

      February 10, 2022 at 6:20 am

      I love both salad and ice cream too. Does one cancel out the other health wise? I wonder!

      Reply
    6. Natasha

      February 10, 2022 at 8:45 am

      Oh, I love that memory you shared about your dad. And your Match.com pictures are the best!!!

      Reply
    7. Gail

      February 10, 2022 at 9:47 am

      That’s a great story about how you and PC met. I also chose my father, under the question about who’d you like to be with who passed away. My father died in 2003, the year before I started dating J, so he never met him. I love that you alrready have the questions and pic for next time. I’ve slotted them into a new post, all ready for March!

      Reply
    8. ShootingStarsMag

      February 10, 2022 at 1:32 pm

      Your grandson is so cute.
      A food I WISH I could have all the time is fondue. Yum!

      Reply
    9. Joanne

      February 10, 2022 at 2:01 pm

      I think it is so sweet that you and your dad share such a love of reading! Your shacket is really pretty. I love your blurry/ pixelated Match.com photos; can you even imagine if someone tried to use photos like that today?

      Reply
    10. Erin @ Cracker Crumb Life

      February 10, 2022 at 5:22 pm

      Oh my goodness!! Baby Declan is so adorable!! I need someone around me to have a baby! I need baby cuddles. Lol.

      And I love that photo of you and your father! What a great memory to have.

      Lol at your blurred and pixelated photos. I absolutely love that honestly!

      Reply
    11. Marsha Banks

      February 10, 2022 at 9:43 pm

      Leslie, of course, Declan would be the best thing about 2021! What a cutie he is! I am impressed you met PC on Match.com and dated for five years, but now I’m curious about what took so long!

      Your answers are such a reflection of you…thanks for sharing!

      https://marshainthemiddle.com

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    12. Christie Hawkes

      February 11, 2022 at 6:21 am

      Hello sweet Leslie! I just loved your responses to these questions about love. I hope someday we meet in person, so I can spend some quality time with you and perhaps share a hug. What a great story about how you and Paul met. I had to laugh at the quality of the photos…blurry and pixelated…at least they weren’t filtered!

      Reply
    13. Rebecca Jo Vincent

      February 11, 2022 at 7:50 am

      So fun – I’m linking up wth this on Valentines Day 🙂

      Kimonos!! YES – that is a great trend I’m hooked on.
      Laughing at your profile pics… the beauty still shines through on you friend – even in a blur! LOL

      Reply
    14. Juhli

      February 11, 2022 at 8:09 am

      What a cute baby! Loved reading your answers to the 10 questions.

      Reply
    15. Daenel T.

      February 13, 2022 at 9:22 am

      Your little guy does have the most beautiful eyes. Such a fun story about how you and your husband met. The hug test was sweet.

      Reply
      • Leslie Roberts Clingan

        February 13, 2022 at 4:07 pm

        Thank you. So glad you played along for the 10 on the 10th. I told PC I had to know how he felt before we went any further.

        Reply
    16. Debbie Harris

      February 14, 2022 at 2:13 pm

      I really enjoyed this Leslie and learning more about you. The story of how you and PC met was very sweet! #lifethisweek

      Reply
    17. Debbie Harris

      February 14, 2022 at 2:13 pm

      I really enjoyed this Leslie and learning more about you. The story of how you and PC met was very sweet! #lifethisweek

      Reply
    18. Denyse Whelan

      February 15, 2022 at 4:48 pm

      How lovely it was to read this and get to know more about you Leslie!

      Thank you for sharing your post for Life This Week. I enjoy seeing your blog’s post pop up in the link up. Warm wishes, Denyse.

      Reply

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