Your three words today are: RIBBONS BOWS STREAMERS
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Bridal and Baby Showers
By Tessa Dean May 2024
A tradition, in America anyhow, is at the baby or bridal shower, a hat is made from a paper plate, and all the ribbons, bows, and streamers from the presents and decorations. The the bride-to-be or the mother-to-be wears the hat while everyone takes pictures.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
I don’t know exactly how many years I have been participating in the one-liner Wednesday prompt, but it has been over 5 years or more. A couple of those years I stopped writing completely and the rest were ones I participated in. See below for today’s entry.
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The food served in this facility is awful, so awful in fact, that I have lost 13 pounds in less than 2 months.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
The heat is too much for me. I hate summer and my skin hates it as well as I simply fry in the sun. During my honeymoon I had a major sunburn that turned into sun poisoning. I lost layer after layer of skin and it oozed with wetness. It also hurt so bad that I couldn’t even come out in the sun. I spent most of my honeymoon in the room in the air conditioning.To this day I can’t spend more than 15 minutes in the sun and that is with protection of a high degree slathered on thickly.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “cotton.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
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100% cotton! The tag assured me it was pure cotton. I try not to purchase items that are made with 100% cotton since they shrink. I held the item in my hand while I tried to decide if it was worth trying. When they are 100% cotton I usually buy them a size too large so I have room for shrinkage, but sometimes that backfires on me and doesn’t shrink and I end up with a too large garment. I put the garment back and move on.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Write a Hermit Crab story – that is a story which is told in another form. Write a story about a character who has just received some unexpectedly good news.
Susie stared unbelievingly at the small stick in her hand. She wasn’t completely shocked at the results because, let’s face it, the symptoms were all there. She felt her breakfast begin to rise in her throat, and she ran to the bathroom just in time. She vomited her breakfast as she did each and every morning.
After cleaning herself up, she returned to the small stick and decided to do another test. She had been trying to get pregnant again for years, and she simply couldn’t believe she might finally be pregnant with her second child. She definitely felt pregnant; she remembered the horrible morning sickness from before. She quit eating breakfast for months until the morning sickness had finally stopped. Thankfully, it was only three months out of her life.
The pregnancy test came with two tests. She opened the second test, repeated the steps, and ended by peeing on the stick. She anxiously waited for the result. The second test also showed up positive.
She was very excited and called her husband at work and told him. She couldn’t wait for him to come home. He was surprised but happy. He knew this meant a lot to Susie, and he was ready for a new baby as well.
Next on her list to call was her mother. She knew her mother would be happy to be a new grandmother again. This would be her second grandchild, as her siblings hadn’t started having children yet. She concluded the conversation and ended up running to the bathroom yet again to vomit. This was her least favorite part of being pregnant.
After cleaning herself up, she ate some crackers in an effort to stop the morning sickness. She prepared herself to call her doctor to make an appointment. She knew he would have to verify the test results, but she was fairly confident now that she was indeed pregnant.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
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