Jan 31, 2008
Oh Goody Goody Gumdrops!
Jan 28, 2008
Just Stuff
Thought I would share this picture of Hannah making biscuits for breakfast, they turned out very good, actually they are really fluffy and take oil instead of shortning, much easier. Here's the recipe:
BIG DADDY BISCUITSINGREDIENTS:
2 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. sugar
1/3 c. oil
smidgen less than a c. of milk
Mix all the dry ingrdients together. Add oil and cut in with a pastry blender until it looks like rough meal.
Add the milk and combine with a wooden spoon (a must for a good southern cook), sprinkle a bit more flour if the dough is too sticky.
Flour a working area and roll your dough out to about 3/4 of an inch. Okay, for you who have a special cutter for biscuits, get it out, for the rest of us country folk, find that glass that works best. Flour the glass or cutter, :o) and start cutting.
Make sure to reuse the left over dough, I remix it and finish it off.
Put in a preheated over at 150 C. I think thats 325 F. Let bake until lightly brown on top, the darker they get the dryer they will get.
Anyhoo, that's my stuff for today, have a good one!
Jan 27, 2008
Homemade Bed Skirt
Then after adding the bed skirt, I think it looks pretty good, at least you can't see the dust under the bed. Oh yea and that adorable Teddy was a gift from Johnny, he went to Build a Bear and made me that teddy with a special message inside, very special!
I found several tutorials online for your grazing.
Make A Pleated Dust Ruffle
HGTV - Making a Dust Ruffle
Crib Bed Skirt
Have a great Lord's Day!
Jan 25, 2008
Sve je Uredu
We have started school back, much to the dismay of the children. I think we needed the order so we weren't just floating around. We weren't actually organized enough to start back, but a day of school is a day of school.
Today Johnny is gone to Rijeka to pick up some furniture with Bro. Rajko, the national Pastor and on the way he's gonna look at a few mini vans for us. Before we took furlough the church was in major need of a van for a route and we were eventually gonna have to sell our van so I said good-bye to my mini van. Well we're back and since we're actually almost carless, we are using a car that the buyer of our old mini van traded us, it's like a 1980 something and is barely going. Only the back windows work and one of the back doors is rusted through and you can't open it or it'll come off the hinges, anyhoo, Johnny is looking at a Kia Carnival today, do thay have those in the US? and hopefully soon we'll have a new vehicle well new to us. Whewww, was that a mouthfull or what???
This is so funny, Josh our 12 year old refuses to use the word define. When he looks words up he uses the word (and I say word loosly) definitionize, yea his own word and he loves it.
Oh yea I saparated my links in the side bar, now the Missionary Wives are in their own section. You gals have your own section, how cool is that!!!
Before I go I thought I would highlight my friend Michelles blog she's really sweet and mom to 5 girls, and Jessica's blog, she's a preachers wife with 6 kids, she's gotta have some insight!
Okay I thought this was so funny. Please if you are not homeschooling, I mean no offense, it is funny though isn't it??
Have a great weekend and Lord's day!
Jan 23, 2008
Jan 22, 2008
Slowly Settling In
front yard looking toward the road
The yard is really nice and landscaped very nicely. We signed the contract today and it has to be exactly the same when we leave for the next city in 3 years. I'm not the best gardener, I wanna be but I usually kill more than I grow. Hum, better fix that. Oh yea the yard is really nice, the gate can only be opened if we BUZZ the visitor in and then there is the garage we can go through and those are the only ways into the yard, good for kids.
I know you all wanted to see KD, she's our Croatian Golden Retreiver. She's Croatian only because she was born here but she has an American heart. She's bilingual too. :0)
It's prety modern but we like it. The kitchen, dining and living rooms are all together. The outward wall is pretty much all windows. I have lot's of sewing to do to get the curtains ready for that wall.
Oh yea the kitchen. It's samll but very functional. I love the way the cabinets open, from bottom to top. Oh yea that pot of the stove is hot beef stew, we had it with corn muffins. Yum!
One more, this is the stairway going upstairs. I have to figure out what to put on that wall between the windows. Any ideas are greatly welcomed.
So that's a few pix of the new house, I'll post more and I clean up all the clutter everywhere. Thanks for being so interested!