Janelle Brown: Smarter Than Your Average Brown (Maybe)

[Meow Mix]

2 minutes ago, jschoolgirl said:

I love hush puppies!

And catfish.  So glad she got to see totality.  I wouldn't have held it against her if it was a last minute trip either.  Her grief will always be with her in some form, but she has a right to enjoy life again and not miss out on a very rare experience.

[precious pupp]

17 hours ago, jschoolgirl said:

I love hush puppies!

I've never had one.  What are they like?

[Denize]

Hush puppies are small, savory, deep-fried balls or elongated lumps of cornmeal-based batter. I haven't had one since the 1970s, but loved them then. Typically the cornmeal is finely ground, so they are not dry like coarse-grained cornbread & muffins

Edited April 10 by Denize

[heatherchandler]

26 minutes ago, Denize said:

Hush puppies are small, savory, deep-fried balls or elongated lumps of cornmeal-based batter. I haven't had one since the 1970s, but loved them then. Typically the cornmeal is finely ground, so they are not dry like coarse-grained cornbread & muffins

The hush puppies I’ve had are sprinkled with powdered sugar, so sweet and savory!  So good, usually eaten with something fried.

[beckie]

I guess Garrisons birthday was yesterday.  Janelle posted a sweet message about it on Instagram.  Don't know how to share it here or I would. 

[laurakaye]

I liked how many of the kids all posted the exact same tribute as Janelle at the same time.  I love how they coordinated that as a family.

[ginger90]

[ginger90]

[ginger90]

[Denize]

Is that 5 candles + 5 candles for 55?  Are those coconut "worms" on top of chocolate "soil" for a garden motif? 😜

[Quof]

It's homemade German chocolate cake.   Gimme!

[crazycatlady58]

3 hours ago, Quof said:

It's homemade German chocolate cake.   Gimme!

YES PLEASE!!

[ginger90]

Mother’s Day, Grief and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Mother’s Day was surprisingly emotional for me.  It just never has been a big holiday for me.  My children have always shown up for me and made me feel special everyday.  Especially since they became independent adults and weren’t home all the time.  

But this year was different 

All weekend I felt the grief so close to the surface.  And it was especially poignant when I made this simple pie. Our strawberry picking excursion combined with the fact that I randomly found rhubarb at the local farmers market made it feel like this pie was destined.  

Strawberry Rhubarb is a huge favorite at our house and maybe no one loved it more than Garrison. And that made this pie a little bitter sweet.  

I love you honey and miss you every day

[Elizzikra]

4 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Mother’s Day, Grief and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Mother’s Day was surprisingly emotional for me.  It just never has been a big holiday for me.  My children have always shown up for me and made me feel special everyday.  Especially since they became independent adults and weren’t home all the time.  

But this year was different 

All weekend I felt the grief so close to the surface.  And it was especially poignant when I made this simple pie. Our strawberry picking excursion combined with the fact that I randomly found rhubarb at the local farmers market made it feel like this pie was destined.  

Strawberry Rhubarb is a huge favorite at our house and maybe no one loved it more than Garrison. And that made this pie a little bitter sweet.  

I love you honey and miss you every day

That pie looks delicious. That post is heartbreaking. 

[Orcinus orca]

Every "first after it happened" holiday will be hard.

[mythoughtis]

On 5/21/2024 at 6:19 AM, Orcinus orca said:

Every "first after it happened" holiday will be hard.

Yes.  However Mother’s Day isn’t going to be any easier for her next year.    She has to celebrate it because she has five other children who want to do so- but it will always be a dimmer day than it would be otherwise.    Our younger son has been gone over a year, and this Mother’s Day wasn’t any better for me than last year. 

[Not Buyin It]

On 11/25/2023 at 1:16 PM, Meow Mix said:

Janelle is really hammering on the word grounded lately.  I hope whoever speculated that she and Gabe and Garrison are going to go into the weed business together was right.  They could make good money and whatever you think about weed, it's at least better than ripping off people in her downline to sell that pink crap.  Weed's not my think (highly allergic), but others seem to be into it.

Military would never condone that. And believe me, they do find those things out.

 

[Not Buyin It]

On 2/9/2024 at 7:39 AM, ginger90 said:

Salute, Sir! Respectfully, USAF (Retired)

[Not Buyin It]

On 3/11/2024 at 2:55 PM, LotusFlower said:

It’s about RESPECT.  They didn’t respect his rules.  And he’s such a stubborn m-f that he decided to withhold his role in their lives until they apologized to him for disrespecting his rules and living “selfishly” (all his words), in addition to apologizing to Queen Robyn for anything and everything.

HE TOLD US THIS WAS THE REASON!!!  (Not yelling at you, Laura!  I just hate him so so much). 

Yep. All about "respect". The same reason he withheld the Sacred Pencil from those wives who, in his mind, were not worthy due to lack of "respect". Some husband, he.

Some father.

What a man's man.

 

 

[surfgirl]

14 minutes ago, Not Buyin It said:

Some piece of shit father.

What a pathetic excuse of a man's man.

There. FTFY.

[Not Buyin It]

1 minute ago, surfgirl said:

There. FTFY.

OK. Can't argue with that.

 

[Not Buyin It]

On 3/13/2024 at 7:07 PM, Scarlett45 said:

Focusing on work somewhat might be good for them. With the social media work they can preschedule things as needed, and if emotions get to be too much, it’s not as if they will run out of bereavement days. (Meaning they can focus on family/healing until they are more up to addressing their business)
 

 So many people don’t even get days for bereavement, between planning funeral arrangements, the paperwork, attending to the loved ones personal affairs it’s exhausting. And the people that do that are usually the ones most emotionally distraught. It’s so hard. 
 

 

Yeah. I was suddenly roped into the executor role for my father's estate. It ripped me up emotionally, tearing down and disposing of my childhood home while mourning (actually suppressing the grief because of the tasks at hand) the loss of my parents. I'm still feeling pain over it, several years later.

 

 

[Yeah No]

On 6/1/2024 at 6:57 PM, Not Buyin It said:

Yeah. I was suddenly roped into the executor role for my father's estate. It ripped me up emotionally, tearing down and disposing of my childhood home while mourning (actually suppressing the grief because of the tasks at hand) the loss of my parents. I'm still feeling pain over it, several years later.

There is no right way to grieve, but when you have so many distractions and responsibilities it can make it so much harder to experience in any healthy way.  Losing my father 4 years ago was especially traumatic for me especially because it was at the beginning of the pandemic and he died of Covid.  Plus he was my only family member left and he lived 100 miles away in NYC at the epicenter of the virus.  Having to deal with clearing out his apartment, which was in my life for close to 50 years at the time and was a treasure trove of family mementos including my old baby clothes that my mother made herself and my stuffed animals and rattles.  It was incredibly difficult and heartbreaking.  And being a germaphobe it was also quite scary to have to be anywhere near other people at that time.

Although my husband says he is proud of the way I handled it, I feel like a lot of that was just perception and there's a whole lot I was suppressing just to cope with what I had to deal with at the time.  In some ways I was preparing for it and dreading it for years because my father was already 92 when he died, but somehow given the circumstances all that preparation was never going to be enough to make it any easier.  I know I'm going to have to seek therapy at some point to continue to process this monumental loss. 

[ginger90]

[Natalie68]

53 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

Gabe looks different.  It is nice they are smiling.

[Quof]

I "give" Janelle permission (she doesn't need it from me, of course) to do whatever in the hell makes her feel better, for as long as she wants to.

But I am so over the insistence on "making memories".   Why can't we just live our lives? We'll remember what we remember, rather than setting it as a goal.   It's like when your mom threatened "you'll have a good time whether you like it or not."  

[DanaMB]

I think the making memories is important to her after losing Garrison. I totally get it. She wants to remember every moment with her kids. It’s part of healing.   

[jschoolgirl]

6 hours ago, Natalie68 said:

Gabe looks different

His hair seems shorter.