Fair-haired beauties

I think there is nothing more wonderful to see than my husband holding a gorgeous fair-haired beauty in his arms.


What? I know you are thinking, "Are you nuts?!"

Nope, I'm not.

That fair-haired beauty is our precious little girl and I watched as he carried her away in his arms to take her with him somewhere this morning. It was wonderful. It was sexy. I can't express how much I enjoy watching him interact with her and how she responds. It warms my heart.

Pan-fried biscuits

Yup, that's what I said.

I've discovered how to make biscuits without an oven. Our oven is broke right now and it will cost $350.00 to fix it. Or, buy a new oven. That's gonna be a pain in the rear.

I had bought two packages of frozen biscuits not thinking about the oven not working. We had our mouths all set for some biscuits and gravy. And we had friends over. We tried the oven and held our breath.

Nope. It wouldn't do. Still it would default and shut off.

So, we tried the microwave. Oh, it cooked them. They came out all soft and fluffy. By the time the gravy was finished we picked up the biscuits and they were as hard as hockey pucks!

This morning I took the last little bit of flour we had and made us up some bachelor bread. It's a simple recipe. Just self rising flour, milk, and a little bit of oil. Mix it up and cook it in the pan like a pancake. It comes out fluffy in the middle like a biscuit. It got me thinking. If that is like a biscuit couldn't we make biscuits in the pan? So, I set out to figure out how to make frozen biscuits in a fry pan.
It wasn't very difficult, it only took a couple of tries.
I defrosted them in the microwave just until they began to rise. Then, placed them in the pan and put a lid on them so the heat could be contained like it is in an oven. After a couple of minutes I turned them over and repeated. After my second try they turned out really well. Kind of like little fat mini bachelor breads. Some gravy poured over them and mmmm. It hit the spot!!!

Where is my sweet little girl?

Ohhhhh.

Over the past two weeks my 28 month old angel has grown horns and put them to use!
She screams over the littlest things happening. She pouts and crosses her arms over her chest and pulls away when you are trying to talk to her. She laughs at you when you try and discipline her. She runs from us when we try and put her to bed now. (formerly she would go and crawl into bed and say sweetly, "nigh, nigh").

I'm not sure what to do. Ignoring her doesn't work because she comes and gets in front of you and challenges you. Discipline doesn't seem to work, she just keeps doing what it is she isn't suppose to do.

I'm starting to think I might need "Nanny 911"!


Hope everyone else is having a good day!

I'm going to get some glue and see about reassembling my hair I've pulled out.

How can you better yourself with this?

Someone refuses to take gas money from you when you return their vehicle to them and you know it's sitting on empty. You explain to them that the truck is very, very low in gas and you offer two more times to give them money. Again, they refuse to take the money telling you that "it's o.k. we all take care of each other, don't worry about it." A week later you overhear them bad mouthing you to several other people because you gave them their vehicle back with no gas in it and they didn't know how they were going to get home and they were having to call a friend to give them a ride to work the next day! How do you use this situation to make yourself a better person?

You and a coworker are chatting and having a good time joking about the job you do. You leave for the day with a high spirit and happy heart because you've had a good time and you are counting your blessings for having such great co workers. You are approached the next day by the boss saying the co worker has told her you were complaining about doing your job and wanting to know why more people weren't doing one of the jobs you were hired to do to begin with and you really enjoy doing! What can you do to apply this in your life to make yourself better?

When you leave it in God's hands

This is what happens.

We went to a Martina Mcbride concert and put gas in our truck, ate dinner at the concert, I built a scarecrow with our two year old daughter and watched her take a pony ride at the towns Scarecrow Festival. We bought a gallon of milk, diapers, sugar, butter, a few boxed dinners complete with the meat in them, three bags of frozen veggies, apples, cantaloupe and grapes,and some donuts (buy1 get1free). All of it with no money. Kind of.

I was amazed. When things look dismal and hopeless if you just trust God and truly leave the problem in His hands, He provides. And He even provides things we don't need, like the concert and the festival. God is so good. He knows when we are weary and need a break and an alone date with the hubby. He knows when we need some play time at a festival playing games and riding ponies with our child or children. He knows when you need diapers and milk and you have not a penny to your name. It comes in all forms. He sent ours via free tickets hubby won at work. He sent the gas and money for the festival from reminding Mike about all the change in a jar we had put away. He blessed us through people coming to us and giving from their hearts. We don't don't even know who one of the people were. Sunday morning the pastor came to us and put money in our hand and said that someone in the church gave this to him and told him to give it to us. It was $50.00! We were able to get diapers and some other food. God is so good!
It's so easy to Praise God when we are seeing the results of his Power. But when the times are rough and it doesn't seem like God is there, do we still want to Praise Him? Do we praise Him in the storm as well as in the calm? When Mike found out he was losing his job, and there didn't seem to be any jobs available in the area. When there is no money in the bank, no money in your pockets, and any money you may have coming in from your last paycheck is already allotted to cover a negative balance in the bank or other obligations. You just can't see how it's going to work. Do we praise He then? I have to confess, we didn't Praise Him exactly. We didn't doubt His goodness and abilities though. We evaluated the situation and said, "yup, this is way too big for us". We chose this time to exercise our faith in God. And God blessed us for it. Will we do it again? Do you trust Him enough to leave it in God's hands?

Faith

Faith without works is dead. That's a Bible verse the pastor preached on Wed. night.
We are living by faith right now. Or trying.
You see, hubby lost his job yesterday. His last day of work is either today or Monday.

Fun times these are.

Where do we go from here? What do we do now? There are NO jobs available in this area and everyday you hear of more people being laid off or forced to retire. What will happen if we become homeless? How will we feed, clothe, and bathe KEA? Will she be taken from us? How will I be able to face the world each day?

Two words come to my mind in answer. God and Faith.