Happy Homemaker Monday 11/09

So this is my 200th post!!  I look forward to so many more.  This has been possible for me with the many different blogs that I link too.  So grateful for all those who take the time to stop by to read my posts, and comment.  Also grateful for all the amazing people I have met through blogging, and especially the ones who I now call friends 🙂

Have a wonderful week!!

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

 

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

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WHAT I’M READING/HAVE READ:
On to Book 4 in The Buchanan Saga by Susan Mallery.  Finished Irresistible, this one had a bit of a surprise in it, which made it really good.  The last book is called Tempting.  These titles though, lol…usually her titles have a two-fold kinda meaning, I’m just not feeling these.

NEW RECIPE I WANT TO TRY/HAVE TRIED:12211275_635909243215792_520154966_o
I did get a chance to make the Grands!® Baked Sugar Doughnuts, my youngest helped me.  (Note to self:  find a recipe that doesn’t involve cinnamon and sugar for him…more of it ends up on the floor than on the dessert 🙂 )  These were a big hit.  We added chocolate chips to some of them…it’s a problem…I know.  My daughter did the honors in capturing the sweet details for you.

 

I want to try this recipe next.  Believe it or not, it’s actually food…AND includes a vegetable!!  *gasp* This looks really yummy, I love cauliflower!! Yes…I said that out loud.

LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:
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LOL…I do not make it a habit of pushing people down the stairs…this just makes me laugh 🙂

CREATIVE CORNER:
I was so excited to win the #Blogbattle Creative Writer Award for Week 33!!  This is my second win, and it was extra special for me since the story included two of my favorite characters that I have created.  You can read it here: Hair Razor.

FAVORITE VIDEO/BLOG POST:
I don’t even like pumpkin…but these guys are too cute!!

FAVORITE PHOTO FROM THE CAMERA:

© 2015 Liv’s Photography

QUOTES:

Five Minute Friday: Dance

It’s been awhile since I’ve joined in with FMF.  But when I saw the word, I had to jump in.   I didn’t get a chance to do my fictional story this week, so I thought I would do a very short one using this prompt. I am also sharing my get-up-and-move song, (which I have shared before).

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

Linking up with Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday.  If you would like to join in or learn more about it, click on the icon to the left.  Write for 5 minutes, here we go.

 

TODAY’S PROMPT: DANCE (Fictional)

GO…

She couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment that brought her here.  A series of events, brief moments in time that lead her to meet the man who invited her to this Black Tie Charity event.  She felt so out of place among all the elegance and grandeur.  You wouldn’t know she was just the girl next door from a small town.  Because to look at her now, with her petite frame wrapped in her little black dress, with the right accessories and just enough sparkle, people could only notice the beauty in this young woman and accept her as one of their own.

Throughout the night she reminded herself to capture each moment like a snapshot and file it in the scrapbook of her mind, because it all felt like a dream.  Then he leaned over and whispered in her ear, “Dance with me.”

With a smile he took her by the hand and led her to the dance floor. As he placed his hand on the small of her back and drew her close to him, she knew she was exactly where she belonged, and that her life would never be the same.

STOP…PENCILS DOWN

When life tries to bring you down, just dance.

Happy Homemaker Monday 11/02

It’s a beautiful sunny, breezy day.  I have the windows open to air out the house after spending several days last week with a couple of stuffy, sniffily kids about.  We have some beautiful weather coming up this week, 70s in November…go home Mother Nature…you’re drunk. 🙂

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

 

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

weather1102WHAT I’M READING/HAVE READ:
Finished Delicious by Susan Mallery.  This one was OK, I didn’t enjoy the characters like I normally do.  I’m on to the next one in the series called Irresistible, and this one seems more interesting, and characters that I am used to from this author.

NEW RECIPE I WANT TO TRY:
These look really good and easy.  Would like to try these sometime this week.  I think I will add a powdered sugar glaze for dipping.  Found this on the pillsbury.com website.

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Ingredients

1 can (16.3 oz) Pillsbury™ Grands!™ refrigerated biscuits
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted

Place biscuits on cutting board. With 1 1/4-inch round biscuit cutter, cut hole in center of each.

In bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon. Dip all sides of biscuits and centers into butter; shake off excess butter. Coat with cinnamon-sugar. Place on ungreased large cookie sheet.

Bake at 350°F 14 to 18 minutes or until golden brown.

LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:

But I sure enjoyed that extra hour!! 🙂

CREATIVE CORNER:12122444_633057040167679_1847343957101852743_n
My daughter has been drawing on canvas with Sharpie Markers.  This is one of her drawings.  She also does these beautiful designs with intricate details, all with sharpie markers, they are just gorgeous, but I don’t have any pics of those yet, will share when I do.

ON THE TV:
Congrats to the Kansas City Royals for winning the World Series, I couldn’t bring myself to watch any of the games 😦  Need to catch up on my favorites.  With the twins both sick at the same time, they were both home…all…weekend….long, just chillin’ in front of the TV.  I watched a couple of episodes of Undateble with them.  That’s a funny show, especially the episodes they film live.

FAVORITE VIDEO/BLOG POST:
I love abandoned buildings, and the photographers who capture them.  Came across this video, and he has a website too at SephLawless.com

FAVORITE PHOTO FROM THE CAMERA:
This is the town that my daughter’s BFF lives in.

© 2015 Liv’s Photography

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Happy Homemaker Monday 10/26

HHMAnother week has come and gone.  Looking forward to the Daylight Savings Time ending and getting that hour back 🙂 Hope everyone has a safe Halloween.  We don’t really celebrate Halloween, but being that we are at my mom’s house, she does pass out candy for the trick-or-treaters.  She always told us that she would have about 400 kids, and it literally is that many, that is when the weather is nice.  Today I am enjoying a day off from home schooling. 🙂

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

 

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

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WHAT I’M READING/HAVE READ:
Haven’t been doing too much reading this past week, hoping to get to some this week.  I’m  still reading Delicious by Susan Mallery, hope to finish it.

NEW RECIPE I TRIED THIS WEEK/RECIPE TO SHARE:
I don’t think I ever shared this recipe, but it’s one of my favorite desserts.  My mom used to makes these when I was younger.  They have also been called Prison Delights.  Where we used to live, my oldest son’s friend lived next door, and seemed to spend a lot of time grounded.  But his room was right next to our driveway, so they would still talk through his bedroom window.  I made these one day, and knowing that they would be gone before he was no longer grounded and would be back at our house, I asked him if it was OK to feed the prisoner.  He did not hesitate to push the screen out of the window, to receive his treat.  These snacks had become his favorite, and that is what he named them 🙂 But I’ve always known them as:

Fudge Jumbles
1 cup butter/margarine
2 eggs
2 ½ cups flour
1 ½ cups Oatmeal
1 tsp. Salt
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Baking soda
½ cup Peanut Butter

Filling:
12 oz. Chocolate chips
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
2 Tbsp. Butter/margarine
½ t salt

Preheat oven 350

Mix all ingredients together.  Take 2/3 of mixture, spread on bottom of 10 x 15 pan.
Mix filling ingredients in a double boiler or over low heat.
Pour over first layer.
Drop spoonfuls of remaining mixture on top

Bake for 25 minutes.

LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:

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 ON THE TV:
The usual, Castle, The Good Wife, Blindspot.  Wish I was watching the World Series…there’s always next year. #diehardCubsfan

CREATIVE CORNER:
IMG_3374My daughter decided to do a craft with my youngest son the other day.  They walked to the Dollar store to get the supplies, and then put these jars together, I’m sure she got the idea on Pinterst.  They also bought battery operated candles to put in the bottom of them, and when they are lit, they look really pretty.

 

FAVORITE PHOTO FROM THE CAMERA:

 © 2015 Liv's Photography

© 2015 Liv’s Photography

 

QUOTES/INSPIRATION:
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To My Fellow #Cubs Fans…

To My Fellow Cubs Fans:

I’m sorry.  It’s all my fault.  It seems I jinx the teams that I enthusiastically cheer for.  But I took it too far with my Cubbies.  I finally purchased a jersey, thinking how great it would be to have one to wear while they played in the World Series.  The really sad part about all this is, I bought it online, so I actually don’t even have it yet 😦  It seems this might be an inherited trait.  My mom told me that the Cubs would lose whenever she would bake cupcakes and decorate them with the Cubs logo.  There were no cupcakes, so it must be the jersey…or the lack thereof.

Nonetheless, it was a great year, and I’m all ready for next year 🙂

PS:  The Bears haven’t played well since I got my Bears Snuggie…I know…I’m truly sorry!!