Our New Pet

Today we saw they were giving away free puppies at Wal-Mart. I love puppies…but they cost a lot of $$ when you figure in food, shots, grooming, etc…SO we decided on a different pet…one that we found in our very own yard! FREE! And it eats so much less food than a dog and no [...]

Oh me, oh my at the strawberries!

Last year a lady in our church kindly bought us quite a few strawberry plants. We planted about 25 and then gave away the rest. Having heard that strawberries were hard to grow, we never bothered with taking care of the plants (protecting them through the winter, pinching off blooms or whatever your supposed to [...]

Apple Crisp w/ Vanilla Ice-cream

I had my in-laws over for dinner last night and this is what I made for dessert. Everyone enjoyed it. I’m thinking of making the apple crisp for breakfast some morning as it is a healthy “dessert.” This is a recipe that I changed quite a bit to make my own healthful version. Let me [...]

Great afternoon project

O.K., well it was SUPPOSED to be an afternoon project, but quite frankly it took about 5 hrs. I even had help from a friend and still it took 5 hrs. Does it count that we had 1 nursing infant, one clingy toddler, 4 young boys facing extreme odds on the battlefield in the pouring rain? Oh [...]

Underpaid Maid Day

Don’t you just love that expression!? I came across it in an article this morning and knew immediately that described my day yesterday. Yes, yesterday was one of those days! I woke up and just felt ill with the world. I don’t know about you ladies, but that happens to me about 2 days out of [...]

Happy Birthday to ME!

Today was my birthday…I turned 32. After such a busy week-end I wondered HOW I could possibly have a good day today, but it was a very good day. We had a wonderful church service, the spirit was good among all the people and we met new friends and saw old friends. I didn’t mess [...]