Our church bulletin said they were going to have a Christmas Party and we'd make a Gingerbread Houses, sing songs, watch a skit and have cookies and hot chocolate. Sounded like fun, so I signed my husband and I up for it!! Took the sugar cookies to share with our hot chocolate.
In all my years, I've never made a Gingerbread House! When our kids were young you had to mix the dough, roll it out, cut it to the right sizes, bake it, make the royal icing, then try to put it all together, hope it all fits and decorate it...I don't think so!!! Now they come in kits AND the houses are pre-assembled...WOW...how easy is that??? Found out it wasn't quite that easy...the little "Christmas lights, holly leaves and other decorations are slippery little things to pick up...and the icing squirts everywhere, except where you want it to go! But....it was a LOT of fun!!! And it made a lovely holiday centerpiece for my kitchen island!
Ends up hubby and I were the oldest people there, but we didn't let that stop us from enjoying our evening!!
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Cookie Exchange
This weekend it was time to have one of my granddaughters stay overnight. She wanted to help me make Christmas cookies, so that's what we did! Three batches of shortbread and a batch of sugar cookies. She was such a big help and I sent her home with a bunch of cookies.
Tomorrow I am having 6 ladies in for a "cookie exchange". I made up 6 packages of shortbread cookies...1 for each of them and in turn they each gave me a package of cookies. I made a big pot of soup and everyone brought something to add to our potluck lunch. It was so much fun and I got some beautiful and delicious cookies!
Tomorrow I am having 6 ladies in for a "cookie exchange". I made up 6 packages of shortbread cookies...1 for each of them and in turn they each gave me a package of cookies. I made a big pot of soup and everyone brought something to add to our potluck lunch. It was so much fun and I got some beautiful and delicious cookies!
Friday, December 1, 2017
Christmas Lights and Cake
We went to our granddaughter's Wind Symphony concert tonight. Really enjoyed her concert. Afterwards 2 of our grandsons came and stayed overnight for 2 nights. They were very helpful. C and I worked on tweaking my computer...he knows so much more about these things than I do! C & W both helped us put up our Christmas lights and we watched a 3D video on our big screen TV....and all I had to do was feed them...mind you with teen-aged boys, that's a full time job...but I loved it! I had made a cake with apricots on the bottom, cake layer then pudding/cool whip layer. I told the boys that Papa didn't care for the apricots so they didn't have to eat them. C looked at me and said, "Grandma, you've never made a cake I didn't like!". With that they proceeded to finish off the cake in the time they were here! Certainly enjoyed their company!
Sunday, November 26, 2017
I'm Back, I Hope
Hi everyone. It's been ages and ages since I've written in my blog. Don't really know what kept me from blogging...it's not like I didn't have anything happen in my life! Anyway time to get back into it!
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Reflexology
The beginning of June during "senior's week" we went to a talk about reflexology. That's something that always interested me, especially after reading the book, "Stories the Feet can Tell", but never gave going for treatments too much thought. I'd had acupuncture before but B doesn't like needles so wouldn't go. The reflexologist who gave the talk was very knowledgeable and explained things very clearly.
At the senior's center they have a block of time for appointments and the price seemed quite reasonable, so after much debating, we joined the center and went for our first appointment. It was quite the experience and we've returned several times since.
I was telling a friend that both B and I were going and he asked me how it went. I told him that I'd been feeling discombobulated and now I feel like I'm put together properly. It's like in Star Trek when someone is "beamed up" but they missed a few molecules when they reformed, now with the treatments I feel like all my molecules are together again!! I also feel really relaxed afterwards!!
When we were at one session, B mentioned he had a stiff neck. She didn't have an appointment after us so she took the time and had him turn toward the pain and she worked on his ear then turn the other way and worked on the other ear....his neck felt better!!!!
At the senior's center they have a block of time for appointments and the price seemed quite reasonable, so after much debating, we joined the center and went for our first appointment. It was quite the experience and we've returned several times since.
I was telling a friend that both B and I were going and he asked me how it went. I told him that I'd been feeling discombobulated and now I feel like I'm put together properly. It's like in Star Trek when someone is "beamed up" but they missed a few molecules when they reformed, now with the treatments I feel like all my molecules are together again!! I also feel really relaxed afterwards!!
When we were at one session, B mentioned he had a stiff neck. She didn't have an appointment after us so she took the time and had him turn toward the pain and she worked on his ear then turn the other way and worked on the other ear....his neck felt better!!!!
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Busy Life...but good!!!
Our friend who has the cucumber greenhouses called and said he had lots of cucumbers, did I want some? Got a bunch and made my usual salads and pickles with them then decided to try using cucumber in the Chocolate-chocolate chip zucchini cake I make. Thought they might be too moist so put them in a sieve for awhile, but no water came out of them. Cake turned out beautiful and yummy!!
A neighbour has an abundance of apples on her tree so she brought me a couple of boxes. Got busy and over 2 days made 2 double batches of Apple Danish and Apple Pudding Cake, plus froze several bags of chunks of apples...also froze most of the cakes...freezer's getting full!
During all this it was our 52nd wedding anniversary so we decided to go to a local restaurant and have dinner. B had salmon and I had a delicious steak. We told our waitress it was our anniversary. She asked how many years and B said "25 backwards". Took her awhile to figure out what he was talking about but after dinner she brought us a piece of cheesecake with whipped cream and a sparkler on it and wished us a Happy Anniversary.
A neighbour has an abundance of apples on her tree so she brought me a couple of boxes. Got busy and over 2 days made 2 double batches of Apple Danish and Apple Pudding Cake, plus froze several bags of chunks of apples...also froze most of the cakes...freezer's getting full!
During all this it was our 52nd wedding anniversary so we decided to go to a local restaurant and have dinner. B had salmon and I had a delicious steak. We told our waitress it was our anniversary. She asked how many years and B said "25 backwards". Took her awhile to figure out what he was talking about but after dinner she brought us a piece of cheesecake with whipped cream and a sparkler on it and wished us a Happy Anniversary.
Monday, August 8, 2016
Running Begonia
This was such a meager little plant when I got it...but look at it now...it's even doing a whole lot better than the others I got at the same time. There was a label on the pot saying running begonia...no other info...never heard of it before and even the gal at the cashier didn't know what it meant. This picture was taken a couple days ago and now it has even more blooms on it! It is such a pretty little thing...kind of reminds me of the Ugly Duckling!
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