November Blessing #29

Today I'm thankful that we sang

Christmas hymns in church today!

I loved it!

November Blessing #28

I'm just thankful I could get out of bed after yesterday.

November Blessing #25

Today I'm thankful that

G made the Pumpkin pie

and

W helped make the

Pecan Pie!

November Blessing #24

Sometime I realize that I'm blessed or thankful in much deeper ways some time it just a surface thing. Today it's a surface thing but still I'm thankful ever so thankful.

Today I'm thankful for the fact that I have a small amount of conditioner in my travel bag.

I have to sub this afternoon (in G's class) and I'm totally out of conditioner. It's not even an option to go with out (static cling is WAY to powerful)! There is nothing, noda on the shelf, plenty of Shampoo but no conditioner. THEN the thought, my travel bag ....... yep, there is a small amount, just enough of today.

I'm blessed!

November Blessing #23

Today I'm thankful for being able to read. I know that seems like a given in this day and time but it is still it's one of the most important talents I can have.

Every few years I see a news story about someone that is a million years ago (or maybe in their late 90's) and never learned to read. Learning to read is their only true wish. I always cry at these stories purely out of the love they have for reading, reading something I do everyday and never think about it.

Reading is a blessing in my life!

November Blessing #19

I'm feeling blessed by Pork Chops today!

or I will once supper is done!

I love these pork chops

they're really nothing

I just pound out the chops with seasonings

then either grill them or fry them in a bit a olive oil

Slap'em on a bun with dill pickles

maybe some onions

and I'm BLESSED!

Love Love Love them!

The last time we had them W came home and

almost jumped for joy that there were left chops in the frig!

November Blessing #18

I was blessed today by a well tongue!

You know when you get that little sore at the tip of your tongue? The one that makes you aware of every tooth in your mouth and how much your tongue goes over every tooth?

Please tell me it's just not me!?!

Today my tongue was perfectly fine again!

November Blessing #16

This past weekend I was Blessed by W

telling me that it didn't matter what I fixed for meal it was

still better than what the school had to offer!

That took the pressure of meals off.

I am Blessed for sending W to a school

where the food is yucky!

November Blessing #14

Today I felt blessed to have a "do nothing" day.

I had a meeting on my calendar that would have been good to go
to but wasn't a have to SOOOO I didn't go.

I stayed in

stayed warm

piddle with the laundry

piddle cleaning up the kitchen

watched a movie

answered some e-mails

fixed a pot of beans with some corn bread

for supper

Just a much needed 'do nothing' day

November Blessing #13

I am so blessed to live in the country!

I have rarely (maybe can count them on one hand)

complain about living 10 minutes from 'town'.

I love the quiet,

the solitude,

 the beauty,

 the lessons it teaches us

and the wildlife.

G has been watching the corn fields being picked and loved predicting which field would be next, then predicting if they'd stop because of the rain, would they work until dark or turn the combine's lights on so they could continue working. He wanted to know where the corn went, was it still on the cobs or off and what was going to eat such hard corn.

Last night on our (G and I) way home we saw an 8 point buck munching his way through a freshly picked corn field. He was only slightly bothered with us, just enough to walk a bit furthers from the road.

A few weeks ago we saw the most hughest owl I'd ever seen!

It was quite a sight!

November Blessing #6

I'm often reminded what a blessing it is to live in these United States.


From the little voices I teach when they recite the Pledge of Allegiance, to the cub scout's I guide when they gather for the flag ceremonies, to trips to the grocery store where food is in great abundance. As I watch the news (occasionally) I see how other live around the world and I just won't trade it for my life in these United States.

November Blessing #4

Today I'm so blessed to recognize that someone watches over me!

 All this week my alarm has not gone off.  I have yet to figure out what exactly is causing this to happen or not happen as the case maybe, but I have still awaken on time (or with enough time) to get G to school.

Now to go figure out the problem so my 'someone' that watches

over me can move on to bigger and better things,

just in case I need something bigger and better than this!

November Blessing #3

Today I was blessed by

the grocery store.

When I see grocery stores in other countries

I'm always reminded how blessed I am to live in a time and place

where good food is always abundant.

Today I headed to the grocery store because

someone let me know that Walmart had

Campbell's creamed soup on sale for 58 cents!

That's a great price and there was tons of it!

I now have soup for the winter and maybe the spring!

November Blessing #1

Today I'm Blessed by GREAT weather.

it was 70, calm breeze and sunny!

Simply BEAUTIFUL!

Simple Joy

Last Friday I made a trip to Costco. It was mid afternoon and I'd missed lunch. There were samples, oh were there wondrous samples. Actually I don't know how good the samples were REALLY because I had missed lunch so any food would have been good! But there was one.......

Lemon Tart
My, My it is good!
I knew that W like Lemon so I was eager to share this with him. He came in late and ate almost a whole one! When I asked him about it the next morning. He said "I don't know, they're too lemon-y" When I told I didn't think so, he replied with "well, I couldn't eat the whole thing" (he'd eaten all but a few bites) They are BIG I didn't think he should have even tried to eat the whole thing. He liked them once he realized that they were a 2 serving pie.
They are gone now but oh were they joyful while they lasted!

Simple Joy

Tomorrow morning (early) I leave with a car full of big ol' teen age boys for soccer camp. W doesn't have one thing packed, or one thing purchased for this trip.

So he and one of the other boys are in the city buying socks, snacks for camp and frebreeze.

There is a simple joy in me sitting at home while he's out running errands for this trip.

Mounds of Blueberries

I went Blueberry picking this morning. Maybe I should back up a bit ~

G and I have been trying to go Blueberry picking for several days (since June 17 that's opening day). The "picking report" of the place where we go stated "There are a lot of berries this year but there are more pickers" so they would close the fields until the berries could ripen again. I believe they were "pick out" in 3 hours last Saturday.

Being a person that can go picking during the week I was trying to avoid the crowds and go during the week. I really wanted to go yesterday to beat the crowd but since they were picked out last Saturday they closed for the entire week and reopened the fields this morning. My little co-picker decided that he didn't want to go late last night so I was flying solo for my morning. I got the to fields minutes after they'd opened (7:30am) and the opened fields were packed, and there was a parade of cars still flowing in! They continued to open fields so there were plenty of berries. The bushes were wet (it rained early this morning) but full of berries picked berries for 90 minutes (got about 13 pounds) and then waited in line to check out for 30 minutes before heading home. The line was much longer when I was leaving and cars were still streaming in.

When I got home I made blueberry pancakes! We all love blueberries but these are so tasty. There was a simple joy at being able to pop such a delicious berry in my mouth as I picked. I don't know if you can tell but some of these are HUGE. Some are bigger than my thumb. We'll be enjoying this for along while!

I've checked into planting blueberry bushes. I have to wait until spring time but they seem to be little effort. Remind me come spring!

Blooming Monday

My Azaleas!

~the only one left from the puppy days~

bubbles!

There is a joy when bubbles are floating through the air!

G has a Mama Jama Gazillion bubble machine. This machine makes the most beautiful big bubbles and Gazillion bubble solution is the best. The bubbles last forever! They floated all over the field, well, those that could escape G.

Blooming Monday!

Since my boys had started my deck flowers I went and got more flowers this morning. They were still looking a bit traumatized by the all the handling and re-potting but I'm so excited to watch them "bloom where they're planted". I'll post more pictures when they're looking their best!
I have these plants hanging from my deck railing. There are 3 hangers and I just love them, they are so pretty.





I have a little cactus colony! I love my cactus' in their bright pots. A lot of these little guys have been gifts from my friends, my sons and myself! Some of them have special meaning like the starter plant that my sister in law gave me from hubby's grandma's plant.

I moved these out last week on a wonderfully warm and sunny spring afternoon. A couple of mornings this weekend I thought I'd look out and see them wrapped in their winter coats. I'm sure they were chilly.