Be Still and Know...Then and Now

We are getting ready for church and I step into the DD bathroom to use her flat iron, hers is of course better than mine. She is helping me with the last few strands in the back to make sure I will not embarrass her to terribly with unfinished hair when her phone vibrates. It’s 7:30 AM, I’m thinking exactly who is she texting with at this hour and on a Sunday morning no doubt. Me being the mom and all I ask “Who was that?” “Oh that was so and so, I asked her if I could borrow a pair of her footie socks, I’m wearing my flats to church.” With a tile of my head I respond “I just bought you a brand new pack of trouser socks!” “Mom! You can’t wear THOSE kind of sock with flats!” I stand corrected, while I am wearing my black trouser socks whilst wearing my flats I might add apparently the whole concept behind wearing skinny straight leg jeans and flats is so that the top of your foot shows…who knew apparently not me. It boggles the mind…..   R

Hey guy’s. Can you feel it? Spring is in the air, I am just praying that we will not have another cold snap and all the new growth that is appearing in my yard will survive this early touch of warm weather. Sunday, February 20  I took a Sabbath rest as well as not taking any pictures. Monday, February 21 With all the snow several weeks ago the normal holiday of president Day was also a snow make up day so the girl child had to go to school. The hubs on the other hand had the morning off. Regretfully he also had a mid morning flight scheduled so to celebrate having a morning of just husband wife time I wiped us up a proper breakfast. This is what I like to call Eggs Benedict Sothern style. No pictures on Tuesday, February 22…bummer Wednesday, February 23 Muffinhead and family came to dinner at church. I got to sit with my man-child, his significant other and granddaughter and enjoy Ham and Mac and Cheese. After dinner Muffinhead went to visit skoots1mom at our prayer shawl

There is a brand new Kroger just a few blocks from my house. I have never done much shopping at Kroger, being the rather spend thrift that I am I have found them to be a bit on the pricy side for me on certain things. They had there grand opening this weekend and I think that everyone in our city showed up to do their grocery shopping. The problem for me will not be the question of to shop or not to shop…it will be to shop or not shop with out first stopping to buy a Starbucks. Will the allure of the Venti Low Fat Ice Coffee with a shot of classic syrup draw me away for my ever faithful Ingles just a few more miles down the road. The had an amazing floral section and the produce department was incredible. I did notice that some of the items I usually purchase were a bit more expensive, bananas at Ingles are always 49 cents a pound and they had them for 59 cents a pound. I purchased a few Kroger brand products to give myself a comparison to the ones I usually buy at Ingles so we wi

  I saw this over at skoots1mom and I tried to get it to work but being a bit challenged in some areas of internet savvy-ness I was not able to get it to work. I did however get the numbers generated over at the random.org website and this is what they were. True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 12 Result: 1 The first commenter was Bug over at Bug’s Eye View , congratulation to my wonderful blogging pal! So y’all head over to her blog and give her your congratulations. So Bug send me an email with your snail mail and I will get your prize out to you in the mail ASAP. I also need to know what flavor of Jelly Belly Jelly Beans you want. Click here to see a list of the flavors you can pick from, I need your first and second choice. As soon as I pick up your jelly beans I get your prize in the mail. Thanks again for stopping by and for being a part of the blogging community. Now on to my Flashback Friday , it’s all about the choppers. But first I just could not resist.

  I had some requests for the Biscotti recipe from last weeks Project 365 . The recipe I used is one I found online from Giada De Laurentiis . I made a few revisions. Out of necessity I doubled up on the orange zest, I did not have any lemons in the frig, it gave the biscotti and very nice orange flavor that complemented the chocolate very well. I also did not have any fine yellow corn meal so I substituted with my white corn meal corn bread mix I had in the pantry to no ill effect as far as I was concerned. I also added about three heaping tablespoons of cocoa powder to the actual cookie batter. I wanted it to be a double chocolate biscotti not just dipped in chocolate. I use a mixture of bitter sweet chocolate chips as well as milk chocolate chips. I like to combine the two for a more well rounded chocolate flavor, not to mention that the milk chocolate melts very nicely when it it is dipped into a nice hot cup of coffee. Prep Time: 15 min Inactive Prep Time: 10 min Cook Time

Hey there y’all! Sunday, February 13 What’s the first thing one does after the hubs fixes the oven? Make buttermilk biscuits…normally I do not cook on Sundays, but I made an exception to my rule. The Soup was a re-heat but I made the biscuits from scratch to give the newly repaired oven a test drive. Worked like a charm. Having an oven that works is a good thing…. Monday, February 14 The hubs called on his way home form work to announce that we’re going out to dinner, my choice…hmmmm….Mexican. There was a Combo #5 in my future and a Margarita. Gotta love a designated driver. It was good y’all and just the right thing on a valentines day too!   Before the food arrived I was casually aiming my camera at the DD, I managed to get off one candid shot before she asked “Did you just take my picture?” This of course was the fuel I needed to sufficiently harass for the next several moment. Sometime she wants to share her  with the world and other time she is down right paparazzi phob

Wow, it’s been a while since I did a Flashback Friday,but since I am trying to post every day this week I thought I would join in on the fun!   Thinking primarily of your growing-up years and your early years of driving, have you ever been in an auto accident? When I was very young but officially out on my own I was on my way to work one morning and as I was pulling through an intersection a young man (teenager) who was late for school went blowing through the four way stop and clipped me on the front of my car. Thankfully it was not a T-Bone situation. My car spun around a few times and I was thrown about a bit in the car. My car at the time was my 1962 Ford Fairlaine so it did not have a shoulder strap on the seat belt. I was thrown sideways and I hit the dash a bit and whacked my head pretty good on the steering wheel, but other wise was unhurt. My car was a bit dinged up but given the solid steel construction of those cars it was like driving around in a tank so I was fairly sa

For as much as I love Wednesdays with my morning bible study, lunch with Skoots1mom and then dinner at church and prayer shawl after dinner I love my Thursdays morning as well. Most of the time I don’t have to be anywhere so I don't set my alarm. I laze around in my pj’s a little longer and I linger over my coffee just a bit more than normal. The activities that are typical for a Thursday mornings are reading, watching a saved chick flick on the DVR or maybe working on my painting for a bit, sometimes I try a new recipe. I just sortta let the day unfold and wander into things as I feel led. This morning I had an extra treat as the Hubs had a service call at a local business so he joined me in an extra cup. While we were enjoying our coffee we turned on the morning news. Old habits are had to break, for a very long time we have been loyal watchers of Good Morning America. I am trying to wean  us off to a morning news show with a bit more substance in their reporting but sometimes

Yesterday as the day unfolded I was in the midst of some channel surfing. Being the tight wad that I am I refuse to pay for the premium movie channels the cable & satellite companies offer. However I do get gleefully excited when they from time to time offer those free preview weekends. I am not sure what prompted this lasted bit of generosity but our satellite provider is now providing us with the Starz channel free for one year. I’m sure it will be us to us to cancel at the end of the year but until then the movie hound in me is very happy. Yesterday I watched part of the the movie “It’s Complicated” now I don’t recommend this movie because entire plot is about the infidelity of the two main characters. However there is one scene that has sparked my imagination. There is a scene between the two main characters that takes place in this amazing garden. I was so captivated by this garden that I was no longer paying attention to what was happening in the movie. After the movie was

So you wanted to see the DD’s whisk boom new hair cut! Saturday I took the DD to get her hair trimmed. She informed that she wanted to get layers in her hair.  I was not entirely sure exactly what that meant however it was clear as I watched the stylist hack away at the lower ends of her hair that my idea of layers and her idea of layers were two entirely different things. I was getting my hair trimmed, being the ancient decrepit and obviously fashion challenged mom type person that I am I opted for the non-whisk broom treatment. Just an inch off the bottom all the way around please! I was in the chair opposite from her and I was working with an extreme deficit that I had to remove my glasses while the woman worked to trim my hair so I thought possibly I was imagining things.   Am I dreaming or couldn't we just attach a handle and give the kitchen floor the once over.   I have now officially moved from the sort of old column into the really old column because now I have no