Yea, weekend again! It is awful but I live for saturday and sunday. I definitely need to get a more productive life.

I had forgotten about the color catcher. I do remember giving one to my oldest son when he moved into his first apartment. I will definitely buy one for myself. Thanks for the tip grannysdaughter.

Thanksgiving is just days away. I have been reading through my old recipes, looking over new ones and watching the cooking shows on foodnetwork, too. I love the traditional foods but I like trying new foods and recipes.

I have another recipe to share. It isn't a new one but it is one I love for it's simplicity. Treasure Brownies use prepared brownie dough that you bake in muffin cups. After they bake you press the miniature candy bars into the brownie and let the brownies cool. I don't always use the nestle brand of treasure candy or the prepared brownie dough. The refrigerated dough makes it easier and quicker. You can use any brownie recipe and pressing a peter paul mounds bar into the brownie is a special treat for fans of coconut. Rolo caramels or miniature reese's cup are also a good substitute for the treasure candy bars.

Next week with school being out, I will be working with the school age children. Again I was told there is no one else to substitute for their regular teacher who will be on vacation. Some days I feel it is a good thing that I have worked in every class room. But I also wonder why the other workers never get pulled from their room to substitute.

The weekends are not long enough. I feel normal, my old self, two days a week. This is the way life should be. Me, at home, at peace, no schedule except my own. I assume that is because I was not a working mom. I was blessed to be able to be a stay at home mom. Now I am having to work, thankfully just seven to three, five days a week, with the weekend off. I need to just keep counting my blessings.

I have a great recipe for anyone who loves spinach, mustard greens or turnip greens, cooked greens of any kind. It is called "green gumbo" and it is fantastic. I spent the day with my sister yesterday and we cooked it for the first time. I couldn't get enough of this delicious gumbo. I will be fixing it a lot.

Wednesday is my laundry day. This past wednesday as I was taking the clothes from the dryer, I noticed a few spots on a pair of pants I was folding. I couldn't bring to mind what might have caused it, but I shrugged it off 'cause it was an old pair of everyday pants. Then I pulled a blouse out and noticed spots on the front of it. Now I was beginning to worry. Everything I pulled from the dryer had what looked liked oily stains and colored spots. My good clothes that I wore to work, ruined. I couldn't figure out what in the world happened to my laundry. I turned the washer back on and added a generous amount of detergent and shoved all the clothes back into the machine. As I was doing this, I found an empty tube of tinted blistex. That is when I remembered using the blistex at work and putting it in my pants pocket. I forgot about it and it ended up in with my load of clothes. I did a google search while the load of clothes soaked. Of course I read "don't dry the clothes" but I had already done that. One web site recommended using "spray and wash" so I bought that and it worked. I am a firm believer in "spray and wash" now.

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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalm 43

It is hard to believe november is here. My mind tells me I just put up what few christmas decorations I had around the house and there are a few snowmen still out. Where have the days gone so fast?

Wednesday and thursday I was home sick. At one wednesday morning, chills and stomach cramps woke me up. I tried to stay under the covers, not wanting to get out of bed. The stomach cramps convinced me to rush to the bathroom and I made it just in time. Thankfully, I had stocked up on the necessities when the first child was sent home from the daycare with vomiting and diarrhea. Thursday evening the fever was gone. I went back to work friday, still moving a little slow.


We had some excitement at work two weeks ago. The fire alarm went off during nap time. It wasn't a drill, of course, I didn't know that until we were outside. I had the awfullest time getting my three and four year olds to wake up and go outside. The alarm didn't wake them up and me hollering fire, fire, get up, didn't get them up. I would stand them on their feet and they would just get back on their beds. I had to pick them up and pack them outside one at a time with out help. Nobody came to make sure I had all my kids safe. I was really upset about this when I found out it was the real deal. I told the director there has to be a better plan made for evacuation during nap time. The fire department came and reset the alarm. They said the monitor stated that it was smoke in the duct work. Something to do with the first time the heating unit is turned on and dust being on the heating coils.

I am loving the colder weather we are having now. I was really excited with my electric bill, it was only $46. Not having to use the central air for heating or cooling is such a big savings. I can put the difference towards christmas. My last two bills were $189 each. This past week the mornings were in the thirties. I have had to use the heaters for a short time. My next electric bill will probably not be as low.


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But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
Psalm 3:3-5