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Hello everyone!  I thought I would share a little of what I’ve been doing.  For several years, we have used cloth napkins that I make.  It saves a ton of money.  The ones we have been using had definitely seen better days so I decided it was time to make new ones.  The sunflower ones are re-purposed from an old apron I had.  The striped material came from Mrs. Sally’s scrap box.  I love it.  Using something old to make something new.

II also made some bread this morning.  We love homemade bread.  The recipe I like to use is here https://merryheartcrafts.com/2011/12/30/butter-rich-roll-and-bread-dough.

Jess and I made this yesterday.  It is a chocolate banana bread and will change your mind forever on how banana bread should taste.  I’m not a big chocolate eater but this was really good.  I’m not for sure but I think the recipe came from  http://www.spendwithpennies.com/triple-chocolate-banana-bread.   That’s all for now.  Enjoy your day and God bless.

We have had some absolutely beautiful days here in Floyd.  Our temperature today as we were coming home was 55 degrees.  AMAZING!!  I have hung clothes outside on the line to dry yesterday and today.  I love it!

Today was chemo day for us.  He had to take the iv and then  he will take 6 chemo pills every day for 14 days.  We will go back to see his cancer doctor after that and she will schedule a CT scan.  Then we will see what the plan is after the scan.  He is doing really well and we want to thank all of you for your prayers.  Please continue to pray.

Well, I think that is all for now.  I want to get outside and enjoy this warm weather.  God bless.

Everyone, meet Ezzy (short for Esther).  This  little lady became a new addition to our home yesterday evening.  Thanks for finding her for us, Vicki!!  She is already much loved.

Many of you may not know but this beautiful boy is no longer with us.  He died in his sleep this summer and has been tremendously missed.

Jasper has been missing now for over a month.  We think someone may have picked him up.  He loved to ride so it would not have been hard to get him into a vehicle.  So now we have Ezzie.   Vicki found her for us yesterday online.  The lady who had her told us she had been dropped off at her house.  We think she was dropped off just for us as she already seems to be part of the family.  She will be our first indoor-outdoor dog and already promises to be more indoor than outdoor.  We are still looking for another dog as I think they do better in pairs.

What do you all think of my new look?  The picture is of the back side of our home.  Thanks so much, Dave, for fixing it all for me.

I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless.

I stopped by Jessica’s today and we decided to make laundry soap.  She had a new recipe she wanted to try.  She got the recipe from here http://aprons-n-pearls.blogspot.com/2012/11/homemade-laundry-soap.html.   But first a picture of our helper, Miss Katie.

Doing this was lots of fun.  I still think it is amazing that I can just drop by her house and we can do stuff like this together.

We did change a few things on the recipe.  Our store was sold out of Fels Naptha soap so we used Zote.  Also we used all fabric powder bleach instead of oxi clean and we used purex crystals in the place of the downy unstoppables.  Okay so maybe we changed quite a few things but the basic recipe was still the same.

When all was finished, she had a pretty good amount of laundry soap.  I think this will be a really good soap to use.  It smells wonderful and has the powdered bleach to keep whites from getting dingy looking.

That’s about it for today.  I need to go start supper.  We are having chicken quesadillas.  I hope you all have a wonderful evening and God bless.

Most of you probably don’t know but this summer Grace had Lyme disease.  This knocked her out of getting to go on the youth trip to Gatlinburg.  She was disappointed to say the least.  She was SO looking forward to seeing the aquarium.

So yesterday and today we were in Tennessee.  This was our Christmas gift from Dave and Jess.  Thanks again both of you.  We had such a great time.  I think you can tell by the look on Grace’s face she is very excited to be there.

We saw so many interesting fish!

Grace even got to pick up a horseshoe crab!When we came out of the aquarium, this is what we saw!

Very exciting!  All the Christmas lights were still up.  It was very beautiful.  The girls and I love Christmas lights.  Hubby doesn’t seem to get as excited as we do but he was a good sport during the trips around town so we could look.  Notice I said trips-we didn’t want to miss anything!

Our view from the balcony of our room.

Julie and the Avengers!

We spent a LONG time in here!  We had a great two days.  This trip was something we had been needed for a while.  Thanks again, Dave and Jess.

That’s all for now.  Enjoy your evening and God bless.

Hello everyone!  Well, I think I am back to blogging.  I am going to try really hard to make time for this as I so much enjoy doing it.  So much has went on here since my last post that I could not ever tell it all in one setting.  I will try to bring you all up to date as I make posts.  Hubby is still doing chemo.  He is tentatively scheduled for a scan on the 20th of Jan.  Dave, Jess and kids are settled in a house in Floyd for now.  Jess is expecting baby #4 in April.  A boy-John Luke.  She said as active as he has been so far they thought he would need two bible names.

I took this picture this morning.  God has really been giving us beautiful sunrises.  One thing this walk has taught me is to try to the best of my ability NOT to take for granted the many blessings God gives.  Each and every gift is special.

Well, that’s it for now.  I have been working for two days getting all my pictures back on my blog.  I now fully understand why I do not do computer work for a living. (lol)  I hope you all have a great evening and God bless.