The first two come from Mimi. She recently moved her site and archives are not there so I'm just typing them out again. LACE COOKIES 1 1/2 cups uncooked oatmeal 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar 2 tbl flour 1/2 tsp salt 2/3 cup butter, melted (10 2/3 tbl) 1 egg, slightly beaten 1/2 tsp... Continue Reading →
You are 80% Capricorn You are 80% Capricorn How Capricorn Are You? Yes, taking the easy way out again today 🙂 Hey, I am on vacation and don't want to think. Besides, look at that result! ONLY 80%?? According to FDF's astrology charting, I am a 'triple Capricorn' so how in the heck did I... Continue Reading →
Christmas Day mayhem
Presents were opened (once all were found!) Games were played. Food was devoured (ooh, the roast in the crockpot was amazing and won raves from everyone. I promise a recipe post tomorrow with all the things I've mentioned this week). It was a lovely day.
Santa still has a few tricks up her sleeve!
I fooled the boy!! This year he needed to be educated on the ways of Santa - I thought it was not a good idea if he went to school and told his 7th grade peers that Santa brought him a new bat, ya know? But I told him that Santa just had to tag... Continue Reading →
Christmas Eve baking
I started with some cookies that August mom Mimi shared a couple of years ago that we all love - Lace Cookies (I'll pose recipes Friday, I promise!) Delicate and..well..lacy!! Basically oatmeal and brown sugar. OH yeah. Then I moved on to some sugar cookies courtesy of The Food Groove: I made a basic vanilla... Continue Reading →
LED report 2008 version
Last year I started the process to replace all my holiday lights outside with LED's. By the end of the season I had replaced all but the lights on the roof line. This year, I was apble to replace those and the only non-LED lights outside are the 4 red bows at the top of... Continue Reading →
Still more christmas gift memories
As I alluded to in my Hot Wheels post, the requests for race cars often balanced out a request for Barbies. Every year there was some cool accessory that I just had to have. There two in particular that I remember very well and which I know I played with for many years. The townhouse... Continue Reading →
I’m too old for this
Amber hiding her face from the weekend. Or something. I sure wish I could have done that! Ok, well only parts of it. The parties were awesome. Great times with great people. Just a tad too much for me possibly. We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Sat night I was out until 2am. In my... Continue Reading →
More reality vs creativity
I think the creative juices are on pause until the practical things are done to prepare for next week. Things like buying gifts at stores that you thought were going to be shipped in time but then you get an email on Friday saying "shipping 1/23/09" which causes you to curse out loud. Thanks a... Continue Reading →
Reality
If not for Holidailies, I would be skipping today as I have total Friday brain drain. Luckily, I took a few pictures at the beach post rain storm which I can share. Perhaps this will warm up those of you with that cold, white stuff on the ground - which seems to be all over... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 