4 Sweet Sisters

Well with school being out for us this week I'm getting a little more time on the blog. I do need to get back to crafting ASAP! I'm so glad I'm not in charge of Thanksgiving dinner this year. One of the chicks went and helped Grammy chop and dice all the veggies. They also had a potato peeling contest with Mike. But the real reason I'm here..... I wanted to show off some of the Weenie/Marshmallow Roast pics. Two of our daughters birthdays fall during the heavy Christmas season and many years get gypped on a friend party. So we moved their b-days up a month and a party happens! Not every year. I shoot for every other. Anyways, on to the pics! Before the party night the chickadees and I came up with a fun games list. Candy Corn Relay, Popcorn Relay, Blindfold Doughnut Contest, 3 Legged Marshmallow Race, Apple Relay, and Bobbing for Marshmallows! (yes i realize they all involve food- that's what made it extra fun!) Before the children arrived we made up huge event...

Well here they are!!!! Can ya hear the excitement? Fannie and Gertrude. Gert is the darker of the two. After church yesterday, Miss Sandy brought them with the little girls - Puffy, Fluffy, Lucy and Princess Leah. My camera went dead.......Oh Superman you know what I need............. I post some of the little girls later. Here's what we got the this morning! Out of focus due to a 6 year old digital camera that eats batteries (hint hint). But I know you all know what eggs look like. I just can't believe they came from our backyard! The silkies won't lay for a bit longer. They were born in August where as the big girls were born in June. I can't believe we have them! I've been wanting them for about 5 years and here they are! Yippee! We've had a very busy weekend. The chickadees had a birthday party weenie roast, building the coop and Grammy's birthday celebration (with chicken holding). I'm so glad there is NO SCHOOL today. I've made polish dill pic...

Good morning. This was rather a hectic week here but I need some accountability so I'll be posting what I hope to accomplish! It would be soooooooo easy to just call it craft day! -Bible and song - math and spelling tests -water garden -clean master bedroom (never got to it) -clean master bath (yikes!) -apple granola ? -milk pick up and pumpkin bread delivery -oversee pumpkin bread making -dust and vacuum living room -older chicks to Bright Lights - chili dog dinner for Superman and youngers -oversee painting of the inside of chicken house- younger chickadees -Craft till I drop night! I really need to get these things done. It's been hard with being in a unsettling time in our lives... I really can't discuss it now, but some days it does get the better of me. I've been in much prayer and am having difficulty with patience.....just when I think I've conquered it! Sometimes just doing what needs to be done and concentrating on that brings me to a place of gr...

Well we're back on track. I have grandiose plans for the day ( haha ), but I realize that what I would like to get done would only happen with me yelling at my dear girls. So I opt for plan B. *Bible and song with Chickadees *Water garden * Tidy school room *Help make 12 loaves pumpkin bread *School (which takes alot more time this- more than I realized- part of my needing an attitude adjustment) *Put away bedroom pile and dust * Costume fitting with children at church *Make dinner- taco salad *Make granola *Put eyes on Cleo I'll place some before an afters up later today!

Today was very busy in a different way. (Superman had the day off and is feeling much better.) We are studying the state of Florida this year as a family and as part of our coop. Some of the wonderful trips that have been planned don't make our budget this year, So I felt impressed upon to study things more locally and use other resources ie. dvd, books, magazines for the places we can't make this year. My mom has gotten on board, so it's making it even more fun! All this to say: we planned a day excursion to the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks. Unfortunately my camera is DOA and Grammala has her SD at her house.... So no pics. We saw many neat sites like real sponging boats, all sorts of sponges and shells. We tasted Sulavai, Gyro, Pastisio, and Baklava. We also learned about sponges and the Greek settlers to the area. It was quite busy day. So tomorrow we'll get to baking lots of pumpkin bread for the 4 sweet sisters business and some deep cleaning in. Hmmmmmmmmm wher...

Well, I'm of to a rather poor start! I went to bed very late last night (we watched the movie Luther) thinking of all I needed to do today. As I was praying and drifting of to sleep I kept saying I needed to make a list of what is coming up. I seem to have lost my organizational zeal... If you come across it, I really need it back! Anyway... Up with a start! Superman caught some krypton which kept him home from work today. So we all over sleep...isn't it the weekend when he is home? Okay up... Music and Bible with the girls Apple granola in dehydrator 4 loads of laundry hung/ dried/ folded water the garden school chickadees give counsel when needed to older chicks (youngest in with Superman doctoring him) make list (should have happened sooner, but it happened) chicken to boil for soup take chicks to buy pumpkin bread supplies work on Christmas gifts spend some time with Superman Unfortunately I didn't keep my self control about me. I've really been trying to work on...

Frugal Friday Look what I made for 55 cents! That's right!! My first sock monkey....Lucy. Monica at the Home Spun Heart had the craft up about a month ago, and I vowed to make my chicks some for Christmas. You can go to http://www.craftbits.com/ and look up this cute monkey. But you would probably do better heading over to the Home Spun Heart (in my side bar) and perusing her craft category. Okay so here's what you'll need: 1 long pair of cute socks (these are child's size so the body is a bit smaller and the legs are longer) thread good scissors sewing machine (you could hand sew the whole thing) 2 buttons for eyes cotton batting ...

God bless you..... Does anyone know what this is? I do. At first I thought it was a scraggly old tomato. On closer inspection I thought it was a tomatillo. Which I've never tried and wanted to. Visions of salsa went dancing by! Then on even further inspection ( i put on my glasses) and found out it was a Fuyu. Of coarse, I should have known! I then headed to my somewhat trusty friend and searched "fuyu". Guess what? It's a Japanese Persimmon. So much for calenete salsa! The chicks immediately wanted to taste it. So open it we did. It looked like an under ripe tomato. I thought it was mislabeled at the field. I mean, where are all the black seeds? We peeled the skin off and sliced it. VERY sweet. The texture was kind of like firm mango. My oldest chick said it was too sweet for fruit. Huh? My mango and papaya loving chick gobbled it up. Thanks to veg co-op another country we won't need to visit. jk On to other news we hope to have live chickens in a couple of weeks...