Women Who Eat Chocolate

Today I found a superb amount of the delish Taste of Home magazines. Lots of 2009, plus the newest 2010 issue. I paid .25 each at my local thrift store, Save-n-Serve. Love this store. I guess this means I don't get to complain about finding recipes to cook? All right, I give in. I even started a weekly menu plan last evening. I tell you, there will be food on my table! haha.

I'm tired of everything that's in my cupboard. When I go to the store, I mindlessly browse the aisles and put the same things in my cart -- every time. I'm in a rut. Some days when it comes time to decide what's for supper, my mind just goes blank. I love to cook, and my kitchen is very organized. It just seems the same things scroll through the empty brain and I cook on auto-pilot. This has got to stop. My husband chuckles at me because I love to browse through cooking magazines, and cookbooks. Why don't you make that, he says. Or this looks really good, handing me some tearout from a magazine. Bless his heart, he's such a good husband. He will eat whatever I set in front of him. I'll admit this week has been a little better. On Monday I made Shepherd's Pie and it was delish. Yesterday I whipped up my own concoction of a creamy Spaghetti & Ham cheesy, yummy dish. We ate that Rachael Ray pan clean. I love my Rachael Ray pans. After o...

New blog post up on Amish Country Living. Check it out. http://www.amishcountryliving.com/blogs/the-day-i-accomplished-nothing--everything.html Some pretty good reading if I do say so myself. ;)

Try these out: Melissa's Tome Talk, Missy's Beautiful Books, Book Hashing with Melissa Kay. I don't know, they all sound kind of cheesy. Regardless, I think I'm starting a book club. Don't get all worried now, you don't really have to read anything if you don't want. It's just I've been such an avid reader for so long, and have a HUGE collection of eclectic books. I really want to share my favorites with you all. So, starting next Friday I'm going to pick one book, maybe two, and tell you why I think you should read it. Either that or you can just hear me expounding on the glory I found in between it's pages. Get ready to travel to some funky places, because I just can't read your typical "girl-goes-west-and-falls-in-love-with-the-cowboy-with-the shady-past". Although I have read those earlier in my reading career. :) We're having company over tonight for mexican food. It's the lovely people from Switzerland, ...

I'm a little late in posting my link to Amish Country Living. I came down with the strangest 24 hour bug on Friday. Heavy fever, chills and the next day I was fine. That happened back in December too. I could feel the chills coming on during the day, just little flashes of them. By the time I had gotten groceries, picked up pizza, rented movies and drove home --- I couldn't wait to lay down. Not sure what's causing these little time frames of flu. I don't like it. :( I'm feeling fine now. Yesterday we drove to Grove City, PA to shop at the Outlet Mall. We haven't been shopping in m-o-n-t-h-s! We found the best deals. Gap, American Eagle, Rue 21, Old Navy --- usually our shopping is contained to school shopping in August, and Christmas shopping. The kids were in heaven. My favorite kind of deal is when something that regularly runs for 39.99, marked down to 14.99, with 60% off of that yet! Woo hoo -- that's some shopping right there. Check out ...

Even though fall is my favorite time of year, winter has to be second best. Alot of people talk about depression in winter, and needing sunshine to survive. I guess I'm made up of something different, more hard-scrabble. Whenever I say "hard-scrabble" it reminds me of the pioneers that packed their whole life up and headed west. They plodded forward, covered wagon swaying not so gently, into a life unknown. They also headed into some of the worst winters and blizzards. Imagine this: you're tucked securely into a log cabin, mud chinked into the cracks, and in some cases the shelter may just be a little soddy -- a little shelter made of sod. The winds start howling and you know a blizzard is starting to rev up. You carry more wood in from outside, and hunker down to weather the storm. In the Laura Ingalls books, she always conveyed such a picture of family togetherness, taking the storm in stride, playing checkers. I know, out on those prairies, winter is wi...

Here is the link to check out my new blog post on Amish Country Living. It was interesting and enlightening! "Seeing through the Blinding Snow"

We have had so much snow lately it's unreal. I never clean off my picnic table outside so I know how much snow has actually fallen. On the news they said Holmes Co. had received about 2" of snow. Ha Ha! I should have sent this picture in to them. Do you like my Christmas tree I set out back? It's gotten new life as a beautiful snow sculpture! This is Belle's thumbs up on the day before she left to go back to college in Florida. Even though she's 19 years old, she asked me that morning if I could make her dippy eggs the way I made them for her when she was 3! I had to oblige that request. This is Belle and I at the airport before she left. She looks excited, I look a little wistful, but ready to let her go. It's always hard, but necessary. Enjoying the snow! Look for a link to my new blog on Amish Country living. It's a little more of the story of yesterday. Much drama at the airport!