She is in love with her pictures, this is my favorite one:
Friday, January 22, 2010
Time for some hair cuts
Someday I will have to take the kids to a salon to get their hair cut, but until they ask to go I think I will save the money and do it myself. So with Tabi we played a little, after getting her hair "done" (we took a good 8" off) she went to "make-up", then wardrobe, and finally to her "photo shoot". We had just watched a show that explained how they did Kristen Stewarts make-up and Tabi is a huge Twiligt fan so I thought I would give it a shot.
She is in love with her pictures, this is my favorite one:
She is in love with her pictures, this is my favorite one:
Friday, January 15, 2010
White Lie Cake
WHITE LIE CAKE – GOD IS GOOD!
Author Unknown
Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love this, especially all of those who bake for church events.
Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies’ Group in Tuscaloosa, but forgot to do it until the last minute. She remembered the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing, and helping her son pack for Scout camp. When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. She thought, “Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake.” This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church & in her new community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake.
Alice found it in the bathroom.... a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect. Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30 to buy the cake & bring it home.
When Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect cake had already been sold. She grabbed her cell phone and called her mom. Alice was horrified, she was beside herself, everyone would know! What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, and ridiculed! All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her behind her back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon at the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good time. Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at Alice because she was a single parent and not from the founding families of town. But, having already RSVP’d, she couldn’t think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South, and to Alice’s horror, the cake in question was presented for dessert!
Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake! She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor’s wife said, “what a beautiful cake!” Alice still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, “Thank you, I baked it myself.”
Alice smiled and thought to herself, “God is good.”
Author Unknown
Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love this, especially all of those who bake for church events.
Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies’ Group in Tuscaloosa, but forgot to do it until the last minute. She remembered the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing, and helping her son pack for Scout camp. When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. She thought, “Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake.” This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church & in her new community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake.
Alice found it in the bathroom.... a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect. Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30 to buy the cake & bring it home.
When Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect cake had already been sold. She grabbed her cell phone and called her mom. Alice was horrified, she was beside herself, everyone would know! What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, and ridiculed! All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her behind her back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon at the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good time. Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at Alice because she was a single parent and not from the founding families of town. But, having already RSVP’d, she couldn’t think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South, and to Alice’s horror, the cake in question was presented for dessert!
Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake! She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor’s wife said, “what a beautiful cake!” Alice still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, “Thank you, I baked it myself.”
Alice smiled and thought to herself, “God is good.”
Thursday, January 14, 2010
I Gave In
Ok, I finally went to the store, but I somehow managed to ONLY get the few things on my list. There was just no way that I could find a substitute for (or make) milk. So far I have only spent $67 on groceries this month. Which means, we have a large stockpile of food in the house that we aren't eating! The kids are not happy about having to scavenge around to find food to eat. I am constantly hearing "but mom, that isn't what I want", "but mom, why can't we just run to the store real quick", "but mom, I'm starving" " BUT MOM......."
Let me say this for the record, I DID NOT have children so I could change my name to Butmom!
There is also plenty of food in the house, so much food that we can not fit is all in the pantry, so much frozen food that when we picked up the deer meat we didn't have room for any of it in our freezer!!!! And there should be caution signs on every door in the kitchen that has food behind it because thing are so stuffed in that things are always falling out (usually on your toes!) Yes there is food, just not what the kids "want" to eat.
I believe this is the very problem with many diets, instead of eating what one has, one runs to the store for something different that "sounds good". Thus leading to weight and health problems. Something to think about, How many times have you decided to change your diet in some way, bought the "new food" for the week, then ran to the store later in the week for something different because what you had "just didn't sound good"? The ability to go to the store has become way too easy. And don't get me started on convenience foods!
Other news from the mob of many kids... Izzy is walking finally! and it wasn't just one or 2 steps. While standing she became hypnotized by the baby Einstein movie on the TV, at which point Chrisi let go of her and she just stood there for about 2 minutes. Upon the realization that there was no one holding her up anymore she ran 4 steps towards Chrisi. We cheered which got her excited and she then proceeded to walk all the way across the room! Several times!
She also started to talk more today, she has added "Peek-a-boo" to her rapidly growing vocabulary. And after a long talk with the speech and physical therapist, we decided it was no longer necessary to attend. We are going just to monitor her development.
Other than that, Life is pretty boring around here lately.
Let me say this for the record, I DID NOT have children so I could change my name to Butmom!
There is also plenty of food in the house, so much food that we can not fit is all in the pantry, so much frozen food that when we picked up the deer meat we didn't have room for any of it in our freezer!!!! And there should be caution signs on every door in the kitchen that has food behind it because thing are so stuffed in that things are always falling out (usually on your toes!) Yes there is food, just not what the kids "want" to eat.
I believe this is the very problem with many diets, instead of eating what one has, one runs to the store for something different that "sounds good". Thus leading to weight and health problems. Something to think about, How many times have you decided to change your diet in some way, bought the "new food" for the week, then ran to the store later in the week for something different because what you had "just didn't sound good"? The ability to go to the store has become way too easy. And don't get me started on convenience foods!
Other news from the mob of many kids... Izzy is walking finally! and it wasn't just one or 2 steps. While standing she became hypnotized by the baby Einstein movie on the TV, at which point Chrisi let go of her and she just stood there for about 2 minutes. Upon the realization that there was no one holding her up anymore she ran 4 steps towards Chrisi. We cheered which got her excited and she then proceeded to walk all the way across the room! Several times!
She also started to talk more today, she has added "Peek-a-boo" to her rapidly growing vocabulary. And after a long talk with the speech and physical therapist, we decided it was no longer necessary to attend. We are going just to monitor her development.
Other than that, Life is pretty boring around here lately.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
I refuse to go to the store!
Yes we live about 30 seconds from the grocery store, which in turn means it is so easy to "run" to the grocery store "real quick" for "one thing"...... and come home a hour later with a car load of stuff that I "remembered we needed" or was "strategically placed in a good location on sale" in the store, you know where they move things to in order to catch your attention and "force" you to buy it at a good price, lol.....
So we ran out of bottle liners.... well, there is no reason I "have to go to the store" because we do have other bottles that work just as well so I am not going to the store.....
Then we ran out of ice cream, the kids may think this is a national emergency, but I still won't go to the store, instead I think we will make some home make ice cream or pop cycles.
We ran out of foil, but when do we really use it? I can't even think of the last time I bought foil, so I am not going to the store.........
Crescent rolls, hot dogs, Crisco, etc, etc, etc.... still refuse to go!
409, nope not going, I made my own cleaner out of a little dish soap, water, and vinegar.... actually it works better! In fact I sprinkled a little baking soda on my stove top, sprayed it with this and my stove is cleaner than ever, did the same with the inside of the microwave......... So NOT going to the store!
Body wash.... have a bunch of old bar soap, that I made into body wash (for those wondering you grate the bar soap and put it in a pan with some water, stir until melted, then pour into a couple of containers top them off with water and some lotion and you have moisturizing body wash.)
and the latest thing tonight is.... Dishwasher soap! still bound and deturmined not to go to the grocery store and also REFUSE to so dishes by hand, so I started searching for homemade dishwasher soap recipes, but had none of the ingredients for that, so after reading all the warnings about not using regular dish soap in the dishwasher, I did it anyways...... and........ my dishes are cleaner than ever!
Now I wouldn't recommend using regular dish soap in your dishwasher, for various reasons, including taking a chance at a huge bubbly mess flowing from your dishwasher, but here is what I did for those wondering. I put about 1 tbsp (maybe less I didn't measure) in the place where the soap goes then filled it the rest of the way with baking soda. The first load came out a little dull, almost like the baking soda was still stuck to everything, so I did it again, this time I filled the jet dry thing with vinegar, and the dishes came out sparkling clean, better than store bought dish soap.
We are low on laundry soap, but I have some old bars of soap that I am going to make into laundry soap, or I could use dish soap (that is what I use to wash the cloth diapers). I am also bound and determined to use up some of this food that is sitting in the back of the cupboards and freezer.
So we will see how long I can go without going to the grocery store (and I am thinking of all the money I will be saving).
So we ran out of bottle liners.... well, there is no reason I "have to go to the store" because we do have other bottles that work just as well so I am not going to the store.....
Then we ran out of ice cream, the kids may think this is a national emergency, but I still won't go to the store, instead I think we will make some home make ice cream or pop cycles.
We ran out of foil, but when do we really use it? I can't even think of the last time I bought foil, so I am not going to the store.........
Crescent rolls, hot dogs, Crisco, etc, etc, etc.... still refuse to go!
409, nope not going, I made my own cleaner out of a little dish soap, water, and vinegar.... actually it works better! In fact I sprinkled a little baking soda on my stove top, sprayed it with this and my stove is cleaner than ever, did the same with the inside of the microwave......... So NOT going to the store!
Body wash.... have a bunch of old bar soap, that I made into body wash (for those wondering you grate the bar soap and put it in a pan with some water, stir until melted, then pour into a couple of containers top them off with water and some lotion and you have moisturizing body wash.)
and the latest thing tonight is.... Dishwasher soap! still bound and deturmined not to go to the grocery store and also REFUSE to so dishes by hand, so I started searching for homemade dishwasher soap recipes, but had none of the ingredients for that, so after reading all the warnings about not using regular dish soap in the dishwasher, I did it anyways...... and........ my dishes are cleaner than ever!
Now I wouldn't recommend using regular dish soap in your dishwasher, for various reasons, including taking a chance at a huge bubbly mess flowing from your dishwasher, but here is what I did for those wondering. I put about 1 tbsp (maybe less I didn't measure) in the place where the soap goes then filled it the rest of the way with baking soda. The first load came out a little dull, almost like the baking soda was still stuck to everything, so I did it again, this time I filled the jet dry thing with vinegar, and the dishes came out sparkling clean, better than store bought dish soap.
We are low on laundry soap, but I have some old bars of soap that I am going to make into laundry soap, or I could use dish soap (that is what I use to wash the cloth diapers). I am also bound and determined to use up some of this food that is sitting in the back of the cupboards and freezer.
So we will see how long I can go without going to the grocery store (and I am thinking of all the money I will be saving).
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