8/3/16

Strange food combos


This is hysterical to me. I saw on the internet a new thing where earlier this year, it was announced as all the rage to put butter in your coffee. It's called bulletproof coffee. I'll let you Google it and read all the wonderful benefits of this "new" thing of putting butter in your coffee. 


I hate to tell them, but I have very fond memories of when I was little (over 50 years ago), Daddy had this one late night snack he liked to have. We would gather around him when he fixed it and beg for a bite and he never disappointed us. We would all share his concoction. He would fix coffee and add Carnation cream and a couple of pats of butter. Then he would tear up pieces of white bread and put it in his cup as well. You ate the bread with a spoon enjoying the wonderful flavor it got when it sopped up the coffee...with butter. How funny that 50 years later this is now a "NEW" thing. 

Daddy also liked to put cornbread in his buttermilk late at night for a snack. One of my brothers and my sister loved it, but OOO YUCK that was not something I ever tried. 


 But there was one thing we absolutely loved to do for Mom's leftover homemade biscuits. It involved Karo Dark Corn Syrup and butter. 


You would mix them together and make a sauce and dip your biscuit in it. It was so delicious. I still do that all the time. I had KFC for supper last night and my dessert was Karo & butter and my biscuit to dip in it. I always mix mine till it is almost like caramel. This was my snack last night and looking at it this morning, I'm wishing I had more biscuits. 


Have any of you ever had any of these weird combinations?



8/1/16

Weekend Wrap Up


The only problem with weekends is they go by too fast. The good news is that my work week starts Sunday through Saturday. I was off Saturday from last week and they gave me Sunday and Monday as days off this week. So I ended up with a three day weekend. 


When I got home from work Friday evening, I saw a box on my porch. It was my FREE fall catalogs for going to conference. I am so excited to get these send out. This is my favorite catalog ever. I usually don't buy any Thirty-One, I just hold my own parties and earn everything I want for free as a hostess credit. So every year, I make out my wish list from the new catalog and set a goal how much I have to sell to earn all the stuff I want. Every year, there is about $200 - $300 I want really, really bad so I hold parties and through out the year, I normally get everything I wanted. That's how I can tell this is my favorite catalog ever, because I did my wish list the other night and found $750 worth of items I would just love to have. So I either need to cut down the wish list or do more parties this year. I vote for more parties because that would make me more commission. Which is a good plan. If I do $3600 in the next 6 months, I could get everything I want for FREE and end up with $900 commission on top of that. It's a win win.


I saw this sign on Facebook the other day and decided I need to find it somewhere because this is definitely for me!


Saturday, my daughter and I made a quick run to Walmart to pick up birthday gifts for Shelby. 


Saturday evening, I just spend a relaxing evening around the house and worked on sorting beads, pipe cleaners and key rings so the kids could make key chains during Children's Church. Sunday, I went to Sunday School and church.  Here is my Children's Church class displaying their key chains. 


Spent some time relaxing around the house after church. Sunday evening we went to Shoney's for Shelby's birthday party with the whole family there from both sides of her family. I was so thrilled when I saw they had the breakfast bar out. It was delicious. 


Afterwards, I had my daughter get my pic with my grandsons. Garret on my left, Caleb on my right and Colby in front of me. When did my boys get bigger than me? And I swear the two oldest ones, which are also my oldest grandchildren, practice NOT smiling for cameras. Because they turn their smiles off the minute you pull out a camera. :). Colby smiles all the time so he's always ready for a Kodak moment.


Then we took one of me and my granddaughters. Alexis on the left and Shelby on the right. I never have to worry about the girls. They don't mind getting their picture made.


My daughter kept saying "Just one more" of me and the girls. I couldn't figure out why until I saw she was waiting for our 5 year old photo bomber to make his move. Colby is a character. 


I had such a wonderful time. Made even better by the fact that I am off work today. Going to catch up my laundry and work on my Thirty-One fall season promotions. Then I have family from out of town coming to visit later today. It's going to be another great day. 





7/31/16

Happy birthday to my Daddy

Happy birthday to the most wonderful man in the world. He will forever be my hero. He would have been 93 years old today, but God took him in home in 1999. It's hard to believe he has been gone 17 years. I love you Daddy.









Happy birthday Daddy.


7/30/16

Happy birthday to my granddaughter, Shelby


This sweet little angelic face is growing up. Our Shelby Rayne is turning 8 today. It is hard to believe.


Over the years, she has developed a unique personality.


She has many looks and personas. Some days she tells me she is a movie star other days she's a princess from China. You never now what she will do. She is 8 years old today but sometimes I still see that little 3 year old that loved to dance and sometimes I see a girl that thinks she is already 18. 


She is the reason my daughter is constantly saying "Sometimes you just have to pick your battles." Especially when Shelby decides to dress herself and borrow her Mom's shoes. My daughter calls this Shelby's "Peg Bundy look".


But she does have a sense of style and knows what she likes. She's the only one I know who pics out a fancy dress for her cousin's Sweet Sixteen bash and then hula hoops in it.


This was last Halloween. You can tell by her stance that she puts a lot of attitude into her poses.


She marches to the beat of a different drum for sure. You never know what she is going to do. My daughter walked in their kitchen one night and this was what she found. Shelby in her Daddy's welding hood. Who knows why? She is always doing stuff like this and my daughter has gotten to where she doesn't even ask. She just shakes her head and moves on.  


And she can be so dramatic over the funniest things. One day at lunch, her mom and I were acting silly and Shelby just made this pose and informed us "I can't take you two anywhere."


She is definitely one-of-a-kind and keeps us on our toes. Hope you have a very Happy Birthday, Shelby. We love you, even though we sometimes don't quite understand you. 








7/29/16

New word for the day - Samovar

I was reading a book tonight and the lady was bidding online for a samovar that her daughter wanted. So I googled it to see what a samovar was. Turns out it is a highly decorated tea urn used in Russia. Of course, then I had to Google a picture. And fell in love. Of course it is related to tea pots so you knew I would like it. Here are some pretty ones I found online.






7/28/16

Fess Up Fun

Confession is good for the soul they say. There's a little game going around Facebook called Girls Fess up. I thought it would be fun to post my answers. 

GIRLS FESS UP

1. Hair down or up? Down

2. Jeans or yogas? Jeans 

3. Painted or non painted nails? painted ... ALWAYS

4. Favorite color? red

5. T shirt or dress shirt? t-shirt

6. Flip flops or sneakers? flip flops

7. Big purse or small? BIG

8. Tattoos? No way

9. Piercings? Just ears

10. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds

11. Favorite animal? Cat

12. Favorite food? Sausage Pizza

13. Rap or country music? Country

14. Height? 5'0"

15. Sports or couch? Couch