The Pie Wins

As I have mentioned on  my other blog...I have spent a ton of time trying to get back into my blogs. I had the right email and password...well sort of the right password... I just did not write it down correctly..I must have had it in my head that I needed the shift key for a few of the keys I was using, BUT when I wrote it down I did not write it that way.
You know how you think you did something one way, and then find out you didn't? That sort of thing.
So now that I have solved this hurdle, the only thing I have left to do is get all my stuff done before my internet get shut off while they re-do the wires. They said it should be done in a couple hours. Then I need to get it set up... I could let the techs do it and pay big bucks, or I could get my son to do it and bake him a pie...I think the pie wins!
Even though it is past Thanksgiving, I will be making a pumpkin pie, his favorite...

December Aready?

Well this year, I think I am ahead...or at least I am not behind. Don't know how it happened that I actually caught up...maybe it happened because a just burned my to do list and started over with just the important things.
My old list was getting so long, and some of the things had been on there so long, that I was not even interested in doing them anymore.
Now I only have 3 things on the list, cookies, clean and decorate, and cards....then I have nothing to do that I really do not want to do....
Feels GREAT!

Almost the end of November already

Here it is almost the end of November already.
In some ways I am so far behind I will probably not even halfway catch up to where I would like to be, and in other ways I am really ahead. I have a project done that did not have to be done till May of 2014. But I haven't finished the list of things that I wanted to get done today.
Funny how things work out that way sometimes. I could have left the project till April, but it was all just sitting here begging to be done, so I thought, just do it now and then you will have it done.
  I need to go back to the old way of doing things, when I was actually getting a lot more done...then I had lists everywhere reminding me of things that had to be done, and by when they had to be done...That system has always worked for me in the past...

Time slips away

It has been so long since I have been here...life just seems to get hectic sometimes and the time just seems to slip away...Just today I thought, WOW, summer is almost over, there are so many things I wanted to do this summer. It seems like just yesterday I was making those plans for the things I wanted to do when summer finally got here. And now it is almost over and I have not done even one of the things I wanted to.
  So before any more time slips away, I will take one day a week and do those things that I want to do...I will enjoy the remainder of summer and then the fall.
Through the unexpected cancellation of a weekly activity, I find myself with a free afternoon...Now before it gets taken up with the mundane "to do" stuff that I find piling up, I will reserve it for a fun afternoon just for me, and whomever I choose to spend it with....
  Delightful time just for ME! Such a wonderful thought.............................

Such Fun to Make

I saw these cute little microwave bowls an could not resist making them...They are so useful, and so addictive to make. The first one took me longer than it should have, as is with most everything  when doing the first one, but after that, they just almost made themselves. Of course I had to alter the pattern instructions to suit me... I never can just do it the way the instructions say...I have to add my extras to things. The most time consuming part of making these is all the marking of the batting....

April Showers

There was good news and bad news for today. The good news is it was not raining when I got up, the bad news is everything had a coating on white on it. I know this is spring, and spring can be unpredictable, but this is getting a bit tiring. I would love to see a day or two of sunshine.
  Of course it would also be nice if it were to stop raining, just for a couple days would be nice. If it can't stop raining, then maybe of the temperature would rise a bit, like into the 60's or so that would also be nice...

Spring?????

What happened to Spring, that time when the weather is supposed to be getting warmer and the grass is getting green, the leaves are starting to bud out......Got up this morning to a white lawn...did not stay all that long till it melted, but it was still there. Plus it never got above 40 degrees all day. Has been raining since Sunday...There is no where for the water to go anymore...the river is rising.

MARCH 29, 2013-Good Friday

Where is Spring?

Well the temperature is dropping and the wind is picking up, so I guess it is a good night to make soup. I have the broth all thawed out, and there are a bunch of vegetables in the fridge that I have to do something with soon, so I will get out the slo-cooker and start cutting them all up. The soup can cook while I sleep, and in the morning it should be pretty much finished as far as everything being done. But soup is so much better after it has cooked for 24 hours. So I will just let it cook all day too. Then either make a loaf of french bread or go to the store and buy one and have nice home made soup for supper tomorrow night.
  Still want to do some cleaning before I go to bed. The house is a tad messy been crafting in the livingroom all day, and the cat did his part by dragging scraps all over the house.

Seniors?

Jesus Loves Me (For Seniors) While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a Church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the Church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age. After a warm welcome, introduction of this speaker, and as the applause quieted down he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gate to the podium. Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak.... "When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson ever learned in my 50 odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials. The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heart break and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed me................the only thing that would comfort was this verse......... "Jesus loves me this I know. For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong, we are weak but He is strong..... Yes, Jesus loves me... The Bible tells me so." When he finished, the church was quiet. You actually could hear his footsteps as he shuffled back to his chair. I don't believe I will ever forget it. A pastor once stated……………. "I always noticed that it was the adults who chose the children's hymn 'Jesus Loves Me' (for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could see they knew it the best." "Senior version of Jesus Loves Me" Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all. For us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others, check out this newest version of Jesus Loves Me. JESUS LOVES ME Jesus loves me, this I know, Though my hair is white as snow Though my sight is growing dim, Still He bids me trust in Him. (CHORUS) YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. Though my steps are oh, so slow, With my hand in His I'll go On through life, let come what may, He'll be there to lead the way. (CHORUS) When the nights are dark and long, In my heart He puts a song. Telling me in words so clear, "Have no fear, for I am near." (CHORUS) When my work on earth is done, And life's victories have been won. He will take me home above, Then I'll understand His love (CHORUS) I love Jesus, does He know? Have I ever told Him so? Jesus loves to hear me say, That I love Him every day. (CHORUS) God Bless Us All !!! Every day is a gift .. that's why it's called the Present