Happy Thanksgiving

We wish you all a very Blessed and Happy

Thanksgiving!

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds ~ Psalm 9:1

It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;~ Psalm 92:1

Hello!

I wanted to pop on here quickly tonight and write a nice long post about nothing particular. But I don’t think that I am going to be doing that now. As my brain has been over loaded with choosing a new template. I have decided to keep my blog the way that it is until I again decide I need a headache. For the life of me I can’t understand zip files or html codes and all that “sort of stuff” that goes into changing a template.

  I can not believe that there is only one more complete month of Autumn left. Where has it all gone? Most of all our maple tree’s are bare. We still have oaks and more oaks and other sorts of oak tree’s that are now just turning yellow. We have been blessed by the nice temperature’s and the grass being even greener now than 3 month’s ago. Yesterday the lawn care men came and mowed while I was out on a walk, there is nothing like the smell of fresh cut grass and leaves in Autumn. Ahh yes…….well I off now peeps to crawl under the nice warm blanket I am crocheting in camouflage colours to put in my hope chest for a “special someone.” I am three quaters of the way done, I am aiming for 6ft. That should be tall enough right? Or should I make it a little taller? Anyway’s nice war blanket…err….warm blanket, a movie, maybe cheese and cracker’s and peanut butter and grapes will work too. I might need some sparkling cider as well…..night night!

Veteran’s Day

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

Help! My Clothes Don’t Fit!!

You might think that I have gained so much weight that my clothes are so small that I can’t even button them. Well quite the opposite is true. My clothes are TOO BIG! Yes that’s right too big.

Since late spring I set myself to the goal of losing weight, forget what I was when I started out, but now that I have lost between 45 to 50 pounds all of my fall and winter close are TOO BIG. I have about 10 pounds to go before I hit my target weight of a 125 pounds. Today my mom and I went out shopping for jeans, I tried on a size 12, fit pretty good, way to big around the waist. I went to a size 10 just to see if they would fit better, and they fit perfect. I have never worn a ten in my life!! Not even when I was in the fifth grade, if you can believe that. Needless to say I feel very proud to have lost weight these past few months. I don’t have any before pictures, but I might have an “after” picture.

This evening in celebration of my new jean size I treated myself to a frozen coffee. Perhaps that’s why at this very minute I feel more awake at this time than usual. Or maybe it’s pure excitement?

A 1,000 Words

   This morning my best friend e-mailed me these pictures from Iraq, these are some very touching pictures. The United States military holds a very soft part in my heart, not only because I was raised a “military brat”, but also because I know people &  families who have or are serving in the military and are always thankful for hearing the encouraging words of “Thank You for serving our country and all that you do to keep us protected!”

    

 

  

Ending One Season, Beginning Another

 

   Just as we end a summer season and we start another, my life has ended one “season” and has begun anew. Each season of my life has brought it’s unbelievable joys and blessings, but it has also brought it’s trials & trials of faith. I often wonder at the end of each season if I learned all that the Lord was teaching me, learning from my shortcomings, trusting in Him and not myself…. During this seasoned I learned more so that just because you have learned one thing in one area of life doesn’t mean you won’t struggle with it again in your life. The Lord is good and patient and the perfect example of unconditional love. He is my loving father, correcting, purging, maturing His believers towards the image of Him.

  And though each season brings new struggles and surrendering to Him my desires and  dreams to His feet. He will guide me in His path that is far more perfect and beautiful than mine own. It is hard for myself to put my desires aside, yet that overwhelming peace when I put myself aside for Him is the most rewarding and unexplainable joy I have ever experienced in my life. I will wait on Christ, He will guide me in the direction I am to go and most importantly I am willing to go wherever He sends me. Don’t dis-pare! Have Hope! Have Trust! Have Patience! He will direct us in His perfect timing!

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud

of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,

and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

~ Hebrews 12:1 ~

With Blogging….

I believe the objective is to update your blog daily or a least multiple times during the week, right? At least that is the objective. Anyone who knows me personally, knows that I absolutely horrid at e-mailing them back within a period of a month. I am not even that busy with outside projects or engagements right now. So what is my problem, eh? Lack of motivation, being tired, or just a case of laziness. The first and the last is my answer.  So perhaps I should make myself more interesting. Who says a blog has to be filled with lots of smart posts instead of interest facts and happenings in ones day through life.

Wasn’t the moon beautiful last night? I love gazing up at the moon in the evenings, I always wonder who else looking at the moon. Enjoy your evening!

Cake!

The perfect ending to our evening.

Recipe Journal

 The art of journaling is sometimes the best form of expressing our feelings in a way that talking cannot relate. What better way is there to journal, than to journal family recipes, handing them down to future children and grandchildren for them to enjoy delicious food that was enjoyed year’s past.

For months I have been collecting and reviewing all of my Mother’s and Nana’s recipe boxes and clippings from other sources for my journal. My journal isn’t exquisite or a high price book with perfect paper, just a pink clothe covered journal. The beauty of the journal comes from the inside were there lies family recipes and sweet clippings from magazines of flowers, sitting rooms and a breakfast room. It will be a treasure to me as I prepare meals for my husband and children that I know they will enjoy just as much as I did.

Ranch Chicken Salad

5 Chicken Breast’s merinated in Mesquite merinade overnight, grilled

 1/2 A Bunch Green Leafy Lettuce

Shredded Carrots

Chopped Broccoli

1/2 Red Onion, diced

Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Shredded Red Cabbage

Spinach, chopped

Homemade Ranch Dressing

1 Jar Homemade salsa or market bought

Croutons

Place lettuce and vegetables in a serving bowl or indiviual bowls. Place chesse in a small serving bowl on the side. Combine dressing and salsa together. Assemble salad to your delight. Here is how I put together mine for a sample:

salad, chicken, dressing, courtons, & cheese. Delicious for those late summer meals. It is not to light and not to heavy. Prefectly satisfing.

 

 

It’s Been A Little While Since…..

  I last wrote on my blog. I have been far too busy enjoying a Summer of traveling, family fun and working. Now I am back and returning to the quiet life in which I know best.

In the second week of September I will again start focusing on education and projects I have layed out in my mind, yet have not written them down. Ah doesn’t September make you feel like wraping up in a nice warm blanket with a book by the fire with apple cinnamon & fall leave candles burning in the back round. Fall is simply the most delicious time of year. Cool, crsip & and a touch of Indian summer lingering behind it.  Apple’s, pears, squash, pumkins, & the very last harvest of tomatoes.

I am looking forward to pening more of my thought’s, dear journal. A pleasure I once did without yet now in my older years I have treasured. Writing to my dearest Heavenly father all thoughts, praises and burdens. Laying my whole heart out to Him. Isn’t He wonderful and all powerful!

   And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue, knowledge and to knowledge, temperance and to temperance, patience and to patience, godliness and to godliness, brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness, charity. ~ 2 Peter 1:5-7 ~