Oh, I am a pathetic blogger. I have plenty going on, but no time to write about it. Going to take a stab at it.

Going on this week:

• My oldest daughter's 31st birthday, which I didn't sufficiently celebrate with her, as she and her husband live 5 hours away. Since, however, she is due to deliver our 4th grandchild within the next couple of weeks, I will have a chance to celebrate her birthday and her dear son's at the same time. It's very "circle of life" - ish. I'm very excited about this baby boy.
• My son and his wife have bought a house, I believe 2 weeks ago. They have been feverishly, scraping, sanding, tearing down and re-building and painting. The results will be a beautiful century-old Victorian home. The grandchildren will fill it's halls with laughter.
• Our youngest daughter brought home all a's on her report card once again this year. Wow, she is impressing us, and we're proud of her for "doing her part".
• Mom is going home this weekend, on a reprieve from the nursing home, can't go see her since we're going to be helping our son do the house. Brothers are once again spending the time and energy to get her home, so glad since I don't have it!
• Still dealing with some lousy sinus junk, it's been a long time now.
• My sister made the best wedding soup and pizza bread this weekend for our "family meeting". Yum, made the over an hour drive SO worth it!
• I have the most wonderful husband in the world.

Friday, November 9, 2007

America's Test Kitchen Cookbook
I tried the slow cooker beef stew recipe out of my America's Test Kitchen Cookbook. It had a few twists in it from the regular dumping in of browned beef and vegetables, we will see how much of a difference it makes in the taste after being in the crockpot for 8 hours! I need to get some crusty bread to have with it.
Today is our twin grandchildren's first birthday. We had a celebration with them last night, and it was a great time. They are full of personality and even a little attitude. We love them to pieces!

I'm finishing up a few gigantic santa hats. I make things for craft shows. They hang upside down as stockings and are very long. I went according to the pattern, and ended up just now having to cut them off, and re-sewing the ends... I saved the ends to make new hats, just smaller! I'm waiting for gingers and hearts (stocking stuffers) to dry in the oven now... this is the first time I've used this recipe of grunge. I sure liked how they looked wet, let's see how they dry.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

I'm writing.
It's official... first day of my new blog. It's much too late to write anything worthwhile, I'll get at it tomorrow...