April Coker, Author

Author: aencoker

  • CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: What to Eat?

    Aren’t Jimmy and I cute? When I got married 32 years ago (I can’t believe it, either), standard reception fare among my family and friends was very simple.  You had a three-tier wedding cake, a chocolate groom cake, some mixed nuts, and some party mints.  I don’t recall attending any wedding where we were treated…

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: Meet the Parents

    One of the most difficult things I had to do as a teacher was contacting parents.  Oh, don’t get me wrong.  I didn’t mind sending notes and letters home, or stamping classwork with “Parent, please sign,” or even asking students to get their parents to call me.  That was easy.  The hardest part for me…

  • AT HOME MONDAY: Remember that lantana?

    Remember that day when I showed you how I (or my mother) planted a special lantana flowering plant in my backyard and bordered it with old bicycle rims?  My sister who now lives in Indiana sent it to me as a get well gift after my hysterectomy in May.  It started life in a plastic…

  • RANDOM FRIDAY: In the BAG. . .

    You know those women’s magazines that feature a celebrity with her purse, showing what she carries inside?  I thought it might be fun to do that with my own bag.  Here goes. . . The bag:  by Fossil Brand.  I found it at Goodwill Stores for only $5.00!  I love the summery feel of the…

  • BACK TO THRIFTY HUNTER THURSDAY!

    We arrived home last night weary but refreshed from our short little vacation, but I was way too tired from all that driving to even think about looking at a computer screen.  We put in about eight hours driving from Marble Falls through Burnet, Llano, San Saba, Goldthwaite, then up toward Hillsboro, Ennis, to Canton,…