Meal Planning with Connie

While traveling home from the beach through Alabama, we stumbled upon a real gem for junk food connoisseurs, like ourselves! We were trucking along, minding our own business and making pretty good time. Then, we began to see.....the billboards. Really, they had us from the very first sign! By the time we reached Fort Deposit, we were ready for some of the advertised confections we’d been reading about for the past 30 miles. At the same time, we were afraid of getting our hopes up too much. Not everything is always what it’s built up to be, you know! Could this place really deliver all their ads promised? As we approached the car-filled parking lot, we saw that this place was basically a confection-lovers compound. All our concerns quickly dissipated, when we opened the door and entered Priester’s Pecans. I am sure our eyes looked as though they were about to pop out of our heads! For starters, this place is jammed full of candies, nuts, ice cream, sodas, etc.! It is basicall

Tyler's "Thank You" Cookies While we were in Destin, I received a call from my friend, Donna Mc., who had kindly escorted a group of recently-graduated Pontotoc students on a senior trip to the Emerald Coast a few days prior to our arrival there. One young man's suitcase was accidentally left behind. Donna called to see if we might could pick it up and bring it home to Pontotoc with us. We were delighted to do this. We are always having to ask others to come to our rescue for such things. It was nice to be able to be the "helpers" for once! When Tyler and his mom came by our house to retrieve his duffel bag, they were very generous with their expressions of gratitude! It made us feel so good to have had the opportunity to help them out. On Monday night, I heard a knock at the front door. When I opened it, there stood Tyler with a tin of homemade chocolate chip cookies, more "thank you's" and another hug. His parents should be very