If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Big Oops!


I have not heard from anyone who tried to make this recipe.  
I noticed a problem before I gave the recipe card to my DIL.  
This recipe also calls for 2 1/4 cup milk.  
I added it to this card and hope you will too if you try to make them.
They really are good pancakes!

I am so sorry if anyone wasted your time and ingredients because of my goof.  

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

who does this messy kitchen belong to?


 Before 

 who does this messy kitchen belong to?  That can't be Rhonda's kitchen, can it?
Well, yes it was my kitchen this morning. 
another shot of my messy kitchen.

I have had a few days alone and I mostly just rested for a week.
I did the stuff that had to be done and a few little projects but mostly I just rested.
2011 was a busy year 

AFTER
 I was slow getting around this morning but then I got busy in that messy kitchen.  
All the dishes got washed and put away.
 Supper is cooking in the crockpot -smothered pork chops.
 Potatoes are peeled and waiting in a saucepan to cook for supper.  
Every surface got wiped off including all the appliances and counter tops.  
The floor was swept and mopped
The big pantry needed some organizing and got it
Trash taken out

   awwww
it makes me smile just seeing my kitchen clean and organized again. 

Frugal Doings 
homemade croutons
I made croutons with some bread that just starting to be quite  fresh enough - it is really easy .
We are having salad for supper but the croutons taste so good,
so I had a salad for lunch as I did not wait so long to eat them.  

Kitchen trash can lined with a brown grocery sack.

I try to remember to use those cloth bags when I shop but have not been too good about it lately.
We got a stack  of these brown sacks in December when we bought groceries in Oklahoma City.
One big brown sack is just the right size for our kitchen trash can.  

an announcement and a frugal recipe
This is a photo of some things on my fridge.

edited  !!!!   This recipe also calls for 2 1/4 cups of milk

One is the Christmas card from my stepson Clint and his wife Amanda.  The picture is her torso by their Christmas tree.  If you click on the picture,  you can read the message better.  
The other is a recipe Amanda asked for months ago and I just got around to writing it out for her.  

This baby will be a sibling for Gavin.

Our son Bobby and Sheena will also be having a baby
due the end of March.



We will have 4 grandbabies come next Christmas,
won't that be fun!!!!


So, I think 2012 is going to be a busy year too.  
Good thing I've been resting for a week!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Frugal Makes Cents




I am participating in the saving money in 2012 challenge over at Frugal Makes Cents and will have some posts about it soon.
Go on over and visit if this is a subject you are interested in.  

I should be back posting soon, just resting up as 2011 wound down and 2012 gets started. 

Monday, December 12, 2011

Sunday, December 11, 2011

December in our home

Son Bobby noticed our home needed some TLC on the outside.
  He offered to power wash and paint all of the outside
and he did!
It looks great too.
 He is same son that helped us tile our floors just about a year ago.  
2011 beautiful fresh evergreen wreath that my brother made.
He makes one for me every Christmas and this is one especially fresh and pretty

and doesn't it look great on the freshly painted entry way?

that wonderful real wreath is how we ended up with this assortment of trees for  Christmas  2011

We own several big green artificial trees but when I set them up,  they looked awful -
just squashed and straggly and not nice at all.

So with Gavin here to help me,  we packed away the green trees and set up these 3 trees.
One is silver, one is pink and one is white.

I like them but I  am hoping to do a big fresh real tree next year.  

By the comments from people that have been in our home,
they seem to either really like this tree medley
or they think it is just bizarre.  



Gavin and Elizabeth 
having a little Christmas fun


and in case I don't get another blog post done before Dec. 25,
Merry Christmas 
to you all with love
from Rhonda and Jeff