Friday, July 15, 2011

Waiting & Homemade...ADD anyone?? lol

I hate waiting!  Patience are NOT one of my strong points!  I wish my hubby would have had his surgery a month ago and we were doing the learning the new life thing already!  But...if it would have been last month, then I would have wished for the month before!  Surgery is Monday, MIL is coming in Sunday, all if right with the world.  I just KNOW what life has in store for him!  For the past 6 months, he has not been a very happy guy.  So, Monday will be the first day in changing that forever!  :)

Now that I have that done!  I'm thinking that when hubby is home from the hospital, I'm going to start the eating from the pantry thing again. While his on the couch hanging and watching movies with his mom next week, I'm going to inventory.  I may get up nerve to post my inventory.  Heck, not a lot of people read my blog so why should I care!?  lol

One more thing I gotta post is a pic of my first batch of homemade pasta.  Now if someone would have told me a month ago that I would be making homemade pasta, I would have laughed my tail off at them!  Well, thanks to a fellow blogger, J, who wrote a cookbook and is selling the online version, I have lots of easy, homemade, (even vegan) stuff!  The plate below is my dinner from that night.  Hubby LOVED it!  My niece was so inspired she made some herself!  :)  Let me know if you want the recipe.

Big Ole' Bowl of Pasta w/ Cheese Sauce!

My HM pasta, fresh, sauteed corn, and filet migeon!  Yum!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Slacker!

Wow...its been a long time!  Life has been CRAZY busy!  I am hoping that next week while I am home while hubby is healing from surgery that I will be able to post a good, long blog!  I have been jotting down notes and stuff each time I think about it so I don't forget!

Good news is Old Navy has been having AWESOME sales online and in store.  Check them out!  I have gotten shirts for $3 each and stuff like that!  I cleaned out around 10 trashbags full of clothes from my closet  (several still w/ tags) and still have plenty of clothes right now!  I've dropped quite a few pounds so the old stuff was little rough!  Oh, Walmart has their clearance clothing marked down to $1 and $3!!  I stocked up on tanks and a couple of cute, knit tops.

I am in the process of canning about 40lbs of tomatoes!  Come this winter, I will be glad I did.  I have also frozen a BUTTLOAD of veggies and berries.  I have made lots of freezer jam and regular jam for my first time.  It's not bad!  I like the Blueberry on my homemade white bread.  I'll have to post a few pics!  I'm little Ms. Suzy Homemaker!!  LOL

Anyway, I'll be back soon!  In the meantime, please send good thoughts and/or prayers my hubby's way.  I know his surgery will go smoothly but some added insurance never hurts!

Keep on Keeping On!
Joy
Strawberry Jam - before going into jars

Blueberries picked from Smith's Nursery - before they were jam!

My very first loaf of homemade bread - YUMM!

TOTALLY worth the little effort!!

Strawberry Freezer Jam

Homemade Granola Bars

My Granola Bars that are QUITE tasty!

Peanut Butter and Jelly Bread - ummm...Hello!!

Sunday, July 3, 2011

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