fourie

what else is there ??

for my daddy

birthday girl

Strawberry Shortcake Cake from the Pioneer Woman blog. I made this for my daughter with love for her birthday last year.

puppy

happy mother's day

taking a moment . . .

meditation is good medicine

my little gardener

from petunias . . . . to maple trees . . . . I have the best gardener . . . . .

Who says ?

using our cookie cutters . . . .

To all my MacCrystens, McCrystins and Christians

Happy St. Patrick's Day

No Cake - - just the facts

luv, luv!

luv . . .

I Heart Martha

one year . . . .

time flies . . . .

still dreamin' . . . since 1/30/2009

You too? Let's dance.

happy birthday jo . . . .

Life is . . . . .

N O T

just a skiff . . .

... but enough to close school for over a week now

challenge . . .

Starts today . . . . . check it out ! January - The Blood of Flowers (Anita Amirrezvani) February - Girls in Trucks (Katie Crouch) March - Montana 1948 (Larry Watson) April - A Homemade Life (Molly Wizenberg) May - The Coal Tattoo (Silas House) June - Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri) July - The Reserve (Russell Banks) August - Drop City (T.C. Boyle) September - An Irishman's Tale (Patti Lacy) October - Bread Alone (Judith Ryan Hendricks) November - An Irish Country Doctor (Patrick Taylor) December - Sundays at Tiffany's (James Patterson)

new years tradition

Dick Clark’s Corn Fritters

By: Dick Clark

Rating ():

• 4 Servings
• 
• Prep 10 min
• 
• Cook 15 min

Ingredients:

• One 15-ounce can creamed corn
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup frozen corn, thawed
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Salt and pepper
• ½ cup flour
• Cooking spray
• Unsalted butter, melted, for serving

Directions:

1. In a medium bowl, combine the creamed corn, eggs, frozen corn and sugar; season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle in the flour gradually, whisking constantly to avoid lumps, until just combined.

2. Spray a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Drop tablespoonfuls of the corn mixture into the pan to form small pancakes. Cook until lightly browned on both sides, about 2 minutes per side. Serve with the melted butter.

44? surely not . . . .

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller~

2010

getting cozy . . . .

too much ?

grandchildren make you freakin' crazy . . . . .

favorite from way back

my talented mother and sister

reading by the fire

Finished !

marthaish projects

My sister and I are doing a few projects before the holidays. I have listed four, and so did she, on our shootin sisters site . . .

but, oh, Laura is really trying to make me look bad, take a look at Wren Handmade

annual tonk

around the first of each december my son and his family host a "cousin christmas." Us old people get to go too. this year was fun and wild as usual . . . .

more snow

my beautiful niece has a beautiful daughter that started building our first snowman . . . of course, with the help of her big brothers . . .

first snow

we had one of those 24 hour snows early saturday morning and it was gone the next morning. it always snows on my leftover pumpkins . . . .

holiday craft

Gooble, gooble . . .

Why are Thanksgiving and Christmas so close together?

sdb

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential. Emilie Buchwald Amen !

The Finest

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never the same.

big sis