Pie!

Laura at Heavenly Homemakers has finished her Pie e-book and you can now download it from her website for FREE!  I have checked it out and it has a LOT of very yummy recipes.  My apple pie filling is among them so please head on over to her site and check it out!

Blogging break . . . Kind of

I just wanted to let you know that I am going to be taking a break from blogging for a while.  I still plan on posting my menus and some recipes as well.  I just feel like I need to concentrate on my family a little more.  Thanks for visiting and hopefully I will be [...]

A Homemade Christmas

There are lots of posts out there talking about making things for Christmas.  While I am pretty sure I cannot make everything I would like to make some things for Christmas this year.  Below are some things I would love to make:
The crayon roll from Skip to my Lou:

This beautiful apron at Montessori by Hand:

I [...]

7 Things About Me . . . Like you want to know more

I was tagged by Jennifer at Getting Ahead to list 7 things about me.  Here are the rules:
Here are the rules to follow if you are tagged.
1. Post the rules on your blog
2. Write 7 random things about yourself
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post
4. If you’re tagged, DO IT and pass [...]

Cheeseburger Soup

This recipe is from my husband’s home church cookbook.  The recipe was entered by his cousin.  We used to have it on Wednesday nights before church.  The ladies would cook several soups every week and we would have them before Awana.  This was my favorite soup.
1/2 lb. ground beef
3/4 c. chopped onion
3/4 c. shredded carrots
3/4 [...]

My son’s political commentary

I was trying to teach my 3 year old son to know who the President is (Georgie Bush is what he calls him) and who is running for President.  I blame myself for what he said when I asked him who was going to win the election.  I gave him the names of the candidates [...]

Menu Plan Monday . . . Halloween Week

If you would like to see last week’s menu, please click here. For other food stuff I made last week, please go here.  I did not get to the salmon cakes again last week, so I apologize for the redundancy, but they are on this week’s menu.  I think I am subconsiously putting them off [...]

Tag Blankets

My friend Kelly makes the cutest tag blankets for the women who are having babies at our church.  So, finally, yesterday she showed me how to make one.  It was pretty easy.  I wasn’t sure what to pick out as far as ribbons and fabric so when the whole thing was put together, my friend [...]

Friday Food wrap up

This week I have been doing some different things in the kitchen.  I made homemade appleasauce again and this time, I decided to make some apple butter with the applesauce.  Then, I canned it.  I didn’t have very much so I just water bath canned it.  Here are the jars:

Another item I tried was sourdough [...]

Maxed Out

Under pressure . . . my husband and I just finished watching Maxed Out the movie, not a feel good choice.  There are just a few things I learned in this movie:
1.  Susie Orman is paid by the folks from FICO.
2.  Your life is worth more than debt.
3.  The Republicans are just as bad as [...]