Wednesday Wisdom

It was a Christmasy weekend!!

This was a great Christmasy weekend!  I baked cookies with two of my favorite girls...just like I used to do with my little girls!

 all yummy goodness!

 Mallory and her mom Sam, such great cooks.

There was lots of love baked into our oven.

These were all action shots, and I really didn't get a great shot of either of them..sorry.

Let me just say that in the past year, Samantha has lost 113 pounds!!!  She is amazing!  She has written all about it on her facebook, as a great 'page'.  She is still loosing and can eat what she wants, she just chooses what she will eat carefully and prudently!

here is her link:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/note.php?note_id=2241917455123

Sally has verbalized what we were all thinking:

Food Fun Friday- peppermint oreo cookies

This week has been a wild and crazy one, stressful too for all the wrong not to do with Christmas reasons.

Our work party is tonight and I have to make a desert.  So I'm whipping this up before work to be ready to go after work.

This calls for something easy:

Oreo cookies

peppermint candy canes

almond bark

Melt the almond bark in a small bowl.

Once 'liquid', dip an oreo cookie in it. 

Place on wax paper to cool.  

Sprinkle with chopped up candy cane.

It looks good and tastes good.  I just couldn't go the "baked from scratch" recipe this week, maybe next week.
If you need something quick and looks good, these are your cookies.
And a shout out to everyone.... thanks for asking about my mom!  She is doing ok, just really sore, and everyday more and more bruises and red marks and aches and pains are showing up! 
It is true, getting old is not for sissies!

Wednesday Wisdom

My poor Mother

Well my mother had a very bad horrible night (Sunday).
she "fell and couldn't get up"

(my mom and Mary&Bill in AZ)

It was midnight, and when she called me (cell phone) I didn't hear it, (I am a pretty deep sleeper) so he crawled down the hall and pulled some blankets out of the closet and spent the night on the floor, still pretty cold...
When I got ready for work yesterday.. I saw that someone had called my phone...
what?  mother??? at midnight??????
as we ran out the door to drive over there we called and no one answered.  Longest 6 minute drive ever.
There she was in a heap on the floor. 
She is ok, weak, shaky and sore!  I felt her legs and hips and arms and neck, nothing broken.  Her leg just gave out on her and she fell and couldn't get up!!
I didn't see any black and blue marks but I'll be checking her again today.

It is settled.  We are going to sell both of our houses and move in together. 
The writing is on the wall.
and mother is on the floor! and I don't answer the phone at night!
So.... Anyone want to buy a house or two?????

chalkboard tags

This weekend was wonderful.  I am making headway on Christmas!  AND my husband actually to me to a move, not a redbox rental but a movie in an actual theater.  We drove to the theater and saw Breaking Dawn.. hey have I told you-all that we live an hour away from Forks!  haha  and let me tell you there are NO houses out there that look like the Cullins!  They are all more like Jacob's house with the moss on the roof....
but I digress!!

Here is a really fun and great looking tag or ornament or place card.. well you can be truly creative with how you use them. 

 

You'll need:  chalk board paint and some flat wood cut outs, or some left over counter samples from Home Depot.

Spray away (two or three coats)...and you will want them to dry at room temperature, not 29 degrees out in the garage, bring it in the house and be forewarned that the house will be spraypaint stinky.

After they have dried, you need to 'season' them.  Rub chalk over them and then wipe off. (rub the chalk, don't write the chalk)

You can spruce them up a little by painting an edge.

And there you have it, a fun little tag you can use these for anything... even for little place cards.