And now they’re four! Sissy made cupcakes for them on their birthday. The whole family is coming Tuesday evening for supper and I’m making birthday cake for dessert. Should be fun. Monday Hamburgers Homemade Buns Chips Celery / Carrot Sticks Tuesday Fried Chicken Oven Fried Potato Wedges Broccoli Corn Green Salad Birthday Cake and Ice [...]
We’ve had a fun week of playing with the grands. It’s always wonderful to have the three girls here. Photo by DD#3 But, Sunday afternoon, our son and his family gathered up their belongings and moved into the farm house. We kept the twins for the afternoon and took them home in the early evening. [...]
It’s high noon in the process of our son and his family moving from North Carolina to our area. Our son and daughter-in-law are packing the moving truck as we speak and should be rolling in tomorrow evening or Wednesday morning. DH flew to NC Saturday evening and drove the girls back yesterday. A fourteen [...]
I tried a new biscotti recipe this week. This Cinnamon Biscotti with Pistachios was a big hit at the ladies’ luncheon I hosted today. The recipe calls for cinnamon baking chips. I’ve never seen those, so used 3/4 c. milk chocolate Ghirardelli chips and 1/4 c. Nestle semi-sweet mini chocolate chips. And instead of cloves, [...]
Two more Christmas trees went up this weekend. The Nativity Tree and the Three Kings Tree. Both are in the library. As we decorate, the kittens are having a good time with the bits and pieces. We’re counting down…thirteen more days and the grands will be here! The three girls are coming back with Pa, [...]
With the onset of October, I start the annual cookie/candy production for our Christmas open house. Sunday afternoon, I made Date Balls (thanks again, Mellanie, for this great recipe!). These are one of my favorite holiday treats. And they freeze beautifully, even with the powdered sugar on them. This week, I’ll make another batch of [...]
Our church’s annual apple butter day was Saturday. They made 150 quarts of apple butter, which will be sold to raise money for the mission fund. Good work, everyone! DH brought some quarts home and it looks delicious! We’ll be including that in some of our meals this week. Goes great with fresh-from-the-oven bread! Monday [...]
The kitties are still taking it easy… …but we’ve been busy! Saturday, we put the Christmas tree up in the master bedroom. It looks great! Today (Monday) my DDIL came by again to clean the scrapbook room for me, in prep for the holidays. Top to bottom, she did a wonderful job! I didn’t think [...]
Before I share our menu for the week, here are a couple of pictures…the first is of our granddaughters, soon to live 12 miles away instead of 12 hours away! This is the bouquet for church Sunday, made with Jerusalem Artichokes, Queen Anne’s Lace, and Becky daisies. Both those pictures were taken with phones. It [...]
We’ve had some pretty hot weather this past week, but when I woke up this morning, the temperature outside was 57! I did a double-take…did that REALLY say 57?? Yes! A beautiful day! DH and I spent some time in the yard. He pulled tall weeds that are so getting away from us, and I [...]
