SOBRADA - Plenty, more than enough

I thought of this word "sobrada" as I was throwing away a pair of uncomfortable underpants.

This is something my mother always calls me. I looked up the English translation and it means plenty. The noun "sobrar" always meant leftovers to me.

When my mother calls me "sobrada" it means wasteful, that I have so much stuff, I just throw things away.

Now who would keep a pair of uncomfortable underpants, or uncomfortable anything?

I don't like to be wasteful, but at the same time why hold on to things that you don't use. They just take up space and you have to cart them around with you forever. You should see the stuff my Mom has.

Now she has plenty. She likes shoes, clothes, perfume and costume jewelry. With 11 kids she gets plenty of gifts. My sister says she has stacks of shoe boxes in her closet. She is 83 so she forgets what she has. She is very colorful. It is almost like she wears all her jewelry at the same time and the perfume too! She likes to dress up. She looks good for 83.

I'm still working on my closet. I just bought a fabulous shoe rack. I've gotten rid of a lot of things - mostly to the Goodwill. I still have to get rid of more. I'm very careful of what I buy now. No more sale stuff unless it really fits or will blend in with what I have. Most important, I have to love it right away!

The picture is of the moss rose in one of my flower beds. There are some begonias in there also. I'm going to have to move the begonias to a less sunny spot.

Something I can never have enough of is FLOWERS! Love them.