Now That's a Rap!!!!

Take a minute and a half and listen to this rap. Very well said!

A Budding Make-up Artist

Wouldn't you just die if your sweet little girl did this?

I got this in an email from a friend and died laughing (after I gasped) .

Game On....I Lost

OK, so yesterday was the first day of school for my daughter Maria's children and she called me to say that she didn't know where to begin with her house. She said she had so much on her list to do that she was overwhelmed so I challenged her to make a list of things that she either needed or wanted to do and I did the same. The challenge was to complete our lists (which each consisted of six 'projects' to complete) by 6 p.m.

I hit the ground running and got my first 5 items completed...I wanted to win this little challenge. Welllllllllllllllll, my last item didn't get finished (which was to cut and sand small blocks of wood for craft bazaar projects).


Maria took this challenge seriously, she is very competitive and was a woman on a mission to completely kick my hiney. And kick my behind she did. SHE WON!

She cooked for her family...

She did her dishes, cleaned out her refrigerator, swept her floors AND cleaned off all of the counters...

Baked a chocolate zucchini cake with freshly picked zucchini from her garden...

Cleaned and polished kitchen items all the while washing, folding and putting away four loads of laundry...

Maintained a beautiful home...

All while documenting everything for posterity.





She is not only ambitious and beautiful but a terrific wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend.

(Way to get me motivated Maria. I might not have won but I did get more accomplished yesterday than all of last week.)

September 1st, It Must Be Fall

I hadn't really planned on getting all of my fall decor out yet but I was so inspired by my daughter Maria's blog post today at Rainy Day Farm that I just jumped right on the bandwagon. It has been rainy and cloudy the last couple of days so it really feels like fall.

Now I feel like making some soup and homemade bread or rolls.

I Won A Book...YaY!!!!!!!!

I recently won a giveaway over at Keep'n The Sunny Side. Amy is a wonderful blogger who takes the most amazing photographs, you really need to check out her blog here. I'll wait while you do that........do do do do do do do (think Jeopardy theme song).

Now for the book I won. It is called Sarah's Garden by Kelly Long. So far I have read about 15 pages and it looks like it will be very good. Thanks Amy, you are a sweetheart.