Oh! Pioneer

You read Pioneer Woman already, don’t you?  Tell me you read Pioneer Woman?  I had, but then hadn’t for awhile.  Then I realized her cookbook (drool, swoon) had just come out.  Just a few days before I visited and I wanted it, oh I wanted it, but I’m trying to control my spending and acquiring, [...]

Winners!

“I love to give homemade gifts. I can be pretty crafty when I want to be and over the years I’ve given away lots of homemade goodies. One year I made some clay Christmas ornaments, another year my husband and I made mason jar lamps, this year we are working on little primitive tables”.
–Lisa

“It’s never [...]

Collecting For Sarah.

They are finally falling pretty steady now, the beginnings of fall.  By the end of the week, we should have a nice lot to give.
Thank you to everyone for your kind comments over the last few days as I blasted you with words.  Your comments and the subsequent email conversations surprised me and just reinforced [...]

And The Winner Is….

Congrats Beegirl!  You hit it right on the money, 155 yummy pages of recipes in my baking binder.
That’s a lot of walking to do!
Send me your info and I will get that scrum-dilly-dilly cookbook your way!

Circles…..

Thinking about that map and the wonderful support this little community has brought me this week, makes me want to hang up my map and mark the distances in which we can find friends through only our photos and words.  I tried to respond personally to everyone who sent me prayers and well-wishes, WordPress occasionally [...]

Mailcall!

I was lucky enough (thank you Sutter!) to be the winner over at Red Gate Gardens and received this delightful package on Wednesday!
Not only did she send me the most heavenly smelling coffee, but an awesome postcard and these two vintage books.
Narcissa Whitman, Pioneer Girl, by Ann Spence Warner, copyright 1953.
Heroines of the Early West [...]

A Challenge-Recycle Week

So, Susanna, or A Modern Mother,  says that it’s Recycle Week over there in the UK this week coming up June 22-June 28th and she’s challenged me to go along for the ride.  Does this make me even partly Scottish, Susanna, as a blogger participating via a blog relation to a woman who’s married to a [...]

Blog Clutter

Girls were picked up by grandmother-in-law (i keep having to find weird new terms for people post divorce, must think of some nicknames this weekend) for a visit with dad.  Notice I refuse to capitalize dad.
For five hours now I have been sitting here in front of this darn blog.  First I updated the theme [...]

Random Thoughts….

My stomach hurts.   In an annoying way.  Not I’m going to vomit.  Not pain.  Just aches.  I think it’s been a really bad week for me eating wise and my stomach is revolting.  Have been wondering if maybe a fast would help break this horrid eating habit I’ve settled into.   Feel the need [...]

Best of The Mommy Bloggers Carnival 4.7

It’s been  quite a long time since I submitted anything for the blog carnival, but actually got it together this time.  I actually posted an item from Becoming Domestic, but thought I would put the link up here.
Andrea from Parentise is hosting this week, so go visit her and her wealth of finds.
Now I look [...]