The water has just came on in our house after a day and a half of being frozen solid! Yeah!
I am so thankful for the luxury of running water! There are so many things that are hard to do with no water in your home. Wash dishes? Laundry? Use the bathroom? Wash your hands? Shower? Forget about it!
I am so thankful for the "little" luxuries I take advantage of. I can promise that I will say a little prayer every time I start the dishwasher, or washing machine, or even turn on the facet! And I am very thankful that I don't have to walk next door to Grace's house to use the restroom!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Learning Patients
I think that one of the main tricks of patients is tricking yourself into doing something else more consuming of your brain power.
Today for instance I got up and cook S and egg and cheese bagel sandwich for breakfast. Then he started to finish watching a movie we had started two nights ago and I started to clean.
I picked up trash, a full cans worth. Started and put away 3 loads of laundry. Moved the bikes around the front room to make room for the tree and organized lots of buckets with my supplies for making Christmas presents.
It was great! I got a lot done, no one called my phone and S was there to talk to me the whole time I was cleaning but was occupied with the movie enough to not bother me!
After the movie S rode his bike to town to return it and another movie we rented and watched and Lauren and Jared's house last night. He called me when he got to town and we discussed lunch: leftover mock turkey noodle soup and homemade cornbread.
I made the cornbread and kept cleaning while he was on his way home! I have checked my email a few times but I have a real peace about it now. I find it worthwile to clean and get ready to move, because some day we will move! I will find a job, even if it is not this one (but I REALLY want it to be this one!).
Easy Easy Cornbread
(adapted from allrecipes.com Great-Grandmother Steinbeck's Johnnycake)
Ingredient List
Measure all dry items including the buttermilk powder into my sieve and sift into a medium bowl.
Fill glass measuring cup to 1 cup line with water. Add oil to the 1-1/4 cup line. Add the egg and mix with a fork.
Pour contents of measuring cup into dry bowl and mix until combined.
Pour mixture into a greased pie plate and bake for 25-30 min.
*I made this cornbread last night to eat with soup and again for lunch today. S and I have really enjoyed having a hot quick bread. I bought the bag of cornmeal who knows how long ago for something and have a can of buttermilk powder in the fridge from cake baking I think! In this "we might be moving" time, I am trying to use up as many things in the house as I can! This is working well until I run out of baking powder! 4 teaspoons is lot!
Today for instance I got up and cook S and egg and cheese bagel sandwich for breakfast. Then he started to finish watching a movie we had started two nights ago and I started to clean.
I picked up trash, a full cans worth. Started and put away 3 loads of laundry. Moved the bikes around the front room to make room for the tree and organized lots of buckets with my supplies for making Christmas presents.
It was great! I got a lot done, no one called my phone and S was there to talk to me the whole time I was cleaning but was occupied with the movie enough to not bother me!
After the movie S rode his bike to town to return it and another movie we rented and watched and Lauren and Jared's house last night. He called me when he got to town and we discussed lunch: leftover mock turkey noodle soup and homemade cornbread.
I made the cornbread and kept cleaning while he was on his way home! I have checked my email a few times but I have a real peace about it now. I find it worthwile to clean and get ready to move, because some day we will move! I will find a job, even if it is not this one (but I REALLY want it to be this one!).
Easy Easy Cornbread
(adapted from allrecipes.com Great-Grandmother Steinbeck's Johnnycake)
Ingredient List
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cornmeal
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons buttermilk powder
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1 egg
Measure all dry items including the buttermilk powder into my sieve and sift into a medium bowl.
Fill glass measuring cup to 1 cup line with water. Add oil to the 1-1/4 cup line. Add the egg and mix with a fork.
Pour contents of measuring cup into dry bowl and mix until combined.
Pour mixture into a greased pie plate and bake for 25-30 min.
*I made this cornbread last night to eat with soup and again for lunch today. S and I have really enjoyed having a hot quick bread. I bought the bag of cornmeal who knows how long ago for something and have a can of buttermilk powder in the fridge from cake baking I think! In this "we might be moving" time, I am trying to use up as many things in the house as I can! This is working well until I run out of baking powder! 4 teaspoons is lot!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
What a morning!
I could not stay in bed this morning. Well, to be honest I went to bed at like 5pm!
Final around 3 am I decided I could not say in bed anymore and had to get up. What is there to do at 3am? Bake of course!
The first thing I made was another Pumpkin Cake. I made one for the coffee shop yeasterday and left 1/4 of it at home for S and Grace to share- but S ate it all. So I made another one. It takes 1 hour and 15 minuets to cook so I had lots of time once it was in the oven.
S had been wanting me to make Cowboy Cookies with white chocolate chips (from the massive chip sale a few weeks ago). So I made up the dough and let it firm up in the bowl for a while in the fridge. Then I started rolling to balls into 1 inch balls and putting on a wax paper covered plate for the fridge until I was ready for them to go in the oven. They are butter based cookies and this worked really well. Also, I don't have to bake them all- the balls keep in the fridge for 3 days.
After the cake was done and unmolded I cooked 2 pans (2 dz.) cookies and put them on the cooling rack to cool before going into the cookie jar.
By them it was 6 am and I was tiered enough to get back in bed. So I did and stayed there untill after S left at 8:30.
Then I got up and showered. While getting out of the shower I heard the strangest noise. Kinda like a rusling leves and a hopping around sound.
As I rounded the corner into the kitchen I saw it! An empty cooling rack, coffee grounds and butter papers on the ground and pumpkin cake crumbs on the table!
DUKE!!!
Fortunatly Cache is too short to reach both places so we know it was him! He was even licking his lips!
I was so mad! I called S at work and yelled at him- blaming him for not putting the dogs out side and all kinds of other things that arent really his fault (although Duke is HIS dog!).
So I did what every good country girl does. I put the remaining cookies (11 out of 24) in the cookie jar, cut off the eaten parts of the cake and sliced the rest!
Now what to cook? I am thinking oatmeal bars since S kept bugging me to get up and cook him breakfast (yeah right!). This way he can just eat em cold or heat em up and I don't even have to get out of bed!
Final around 3 am I decided I could not say in bed anymore and had to get up. What is there to do at 3am? Bake of course!
The first thing I made was another Pumpkin Cake. I made one for the coffee shop yeasterday and left 1/4 of it at home for S and Grace to share- but S ate it all. So I made another one. It takes 1 hour and 15 minuets to cook so I had lots of time once it was in the oven.
S had been wanting me to make Cowboy Cookies with white chocolate chips (from the massive chip sale a few weeks ago). So I made up the dough and let it firm up in the bowl for a while in the fridge. Then I started rolling to balls into 1 inch balls and putting on a wax paper covered plate for the fridge until I was ready for them to go in the oven. They are butter based cookies and this worked really well. Also, I don't have to bake them all- the balls keep in the fridge for 3 days.
After the cake was done and unmolded I cooked 2 pans (2 dz.) cookies and put them on the cooling rack to cool before going into the cookie jar.
By them it was 6 am and I was tiered enough to get back in bed. So I did and stayed there untill after S left at 8:30.
Then I got up and showered. While getting out of the shower I heard the strangest noise. Kinda like a rusling leves and a hopping around sound.
As I rounded the corner into the kitchen I saw it! An empty cooling rack, coffee grounds and butter papers on the ground and pumpkin cake crumbs on the table!
DUKE!!!
Fortunatly Cache is too short to reach both places so we know it was him! He was even licking his lips!
I was so mad! I called S at work and yelled at him- blaming him for not putting the dogs out side and all kinds of other things that arent really his fault (although Duke is HIS dog!).
So I did what every good country girl does. I put the remaining cookies (11 out of 24) in the cookie jar, cut off the eaten parts of the cake and sliced the rest!
Now what to cook? I am thinking oatmeal bars since S kept bugging me to get up and cook him breakfast (yeah right!). This way he can just eat em cold or heat em up and I don't even have to get out of bed!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Back on Oklahoma
After some delays in Madison and Chicago we final touched down in Tulsa last night around 11pm. Grammy and Grandpa Bill were there to greet us- I love them!
Our original plan was to drive back to Stillwater last night but due to the late arrive and the fact that we were both very worn out we took over Grammy's guest bed one more night.
We awoke early this morning to dress and come back to Stillwater at a recpectible time so S could get to work at the bike shop. I droped him off earlier and am now home with the dogs.
Cache was very excited to see us and took is now eating her weight in dog food. I know Grace fed him- he is just a pig like that!
My plans for today are to contine cleaning and sorting though the house. A lot of things need to be donated because we no longer need or use them, and other things are broken or just clutter. I hope to sort though the entire craft room today and weed though all of our clothes. Then it will be on to the craft supplies.
We still have not decited what to do about Christmas decorations. For the moment I am not decorating with great hopes that there will soon be a call about a job in Wisconsin!
Keep praying for- we ceartinly are!
*Pictures of "The Great North" to come later!
Our original plan was to drive back to Stillwater last night but due to the late arrive and the fact that we were both very worn out we took over Grammy's guest bed one more night.
We awoke early this morning to dress and come back to Stillwater at a recpectible time so S could get to work at the bike shop. I droped him off earlier and am now home with the dogs.
Cache was very excited to see us and took is now eating her weight in dog food. I know Grace fed him- he is just a pig like that!
My plans for today are to contine cleaning and sorting though the house. A lot of things need to be donated because we no longer need or use them, and other things are broken or just clutter. I hope to sort though the entire craft room today and weed though all of our clothes. Then it will be on to the craft supplies.
We still have not decited what to do about Christmas decorations. For the moment I am not decorating with great hopes that there will soon be a call about a job in Wisconsin!
Keep praying for- we ceartinly are!
*Pictures of "The Great North" to come later!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Welcome to Wisconsin!
S and I are currently sitting in a Culver's in Madison, WI!
I had my interview this morning, and although I have a good feeling about it- I don't have the job yet.
The entire complex was amazing! The design team was great and I think I would work well with all of them. They were all very knowledgeable and I know that I have a lot to learn.
Now it is just a waiting game!
*Oh and we found an apartment of our dreams and it is cheap and available! I hope they call soon I don't think my heart can handle the wait much longer- I am so excited!!!
I had my interview this morning, and although I have a good feeling about it- I don't have the job yet.
The entire complex was amazing! The design team was great and I think I would work well with all of them. They were all very knowledgeable and I know that I have a lot to learn.
Now it is just a waiting game!
*Oh and we found an apartment of our dreams and it is cheap and available! I hope they call soon I don't think my heart can handle the wait much longer- I am so excited!!!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Super easy leftover soup!
The worlds easiest soup if you already have some roasted vegetables left over from Thanksgiving or something.
What you need:
Ladle soup into bowls and eat!
S was resistant because it was so easy. The bullion cubes add a lot of flavor and the veggies were already flavored from the roast.
I wish I would have added more pasta. S suggested adding some rice while the water was boiling- I really wish I would have done that now. I might buy some exotic wild rice to try next time!
I love soup! I hope that we eat lots more soup as the weather keeps getting colder!
*We leave for my interview in Wisconsin tomorrow morning. Please think and pray for us as we travel! We are very excited!
What you need:
- 6 cups of water
- 4 vegetarian vegetable bullion cubes
- Pasta (cooked or uncooked)
- Roasted veggies (we had onions, potatoes, and carrots)
Ladle soup into bowls and eat!
S was resistant because it was so easy. The bullion cubes add a lot of flavor and the veggies were already flavored from the roast.
I wish I would have added more pasta. S suggested adding some rice while the water was boiling- I really wish I would have done that now. I might buy some exotic wild rice to try next time!
I love soup! I hope that we eat lots more soup as the weather keeps getting colder!
*We leave for my interview in Wisconsin tomorrow morning. Please think and pray for us as we travel! We are very excited!
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